About
Women in Global Health Research seeks to foster a new generation of women leading health research around the world.
We support this mission by providing networking opportunities, discussion spaces, professional development tools, and inspirational stories through our digital hub. As a global network, we achieve these goals by working across regions, research areas and partner organisations.
Women make up 70% of the global health workforce.1 However, they only hold 25% of leadership positions, and only 5% in low- and middle-income countries.2
Gender equality in global health research must be strengthened. The Women in Global Health Research hub offers actionable solutions and resources, using digital networks to help reduce the professional burden of gender inequity in the health sciences.
- Organization WH. Closing the leadership gap: gender equity and leadership in the global health and care workforce: policy action paper, 2021.
- Delivered by women, led by men: a gender and equity analysis of the global health and social workforce. WHO Human Resources for Health Observer Series No. 24. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019.
The Hub aims to:
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Enhance the visibility of women in global health research.
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Providecapacity-building opportunities.
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Facilitate global networking and collaboration.
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Advocate for gender equity policies.
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Improve access to resources and mentorship.
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Thank you for visiting The Global Health Network, please take a moment to read this important message. As you know, our aim is to enable equity in access to research knowledge and this is successfully delivering support and training to 1000’s of research teams all over the world. But we need your support!. If you have benefited from this research skills and knowledge sharing facility, please help us sustain this remarkable and unique provision of information for those who could otherwise not access such support and training. We would be really grateful if you could make a donation or ask your employer or organisation to contribute to the costs of maintaining this platform and the generation of new contents for all users. Just a small contribution from everyone who can afford to pay would keep this available for those who cannot. Thank you, we really appreciate your part in this community effort to better equity in global health research.