MANILA — Tired of seeing men dominating panels and leadership roles in the health sector, four early-career women, complete strangers to each other, connected on Twitter via the hashtag #wgh300 in 2015 contemplating the question: How to change the reality for women in health?
Months later, at one of the coffee tables at the Serpentine Bar at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, they launched Women in Global Health with an attendance of 25 people, said Roopa Dhatt, co-founder and executive director. The goal: advance women’s leadership and gender equality in the sector.
“It doesn't make sense to see so many talented women around, but when you look at top leadership women are not being represented. And we felt that since we were aspiring to be in the field of global health, that we wanted to be a part of the change or really catalyze the change,” she told Devex.