New Series: Women on the Rise in Global Health

March 08, 2018This International Women ' s Day, we ' re launching a new series that explores why there aren ’t more women at the top in global health—yet.Every day I get to work side-by-side with smart, creative, tenacious people.IntraHealth International is full them. And, like at a lot of global health organizations, most of them are women.Women make up75% of the health workforce in many countries, but hold only 25% of leadership roles. And while up to 84% of global health students are women, they holdonly 24% of global health faculty positions and a quarter of directorships in global health centers.So we ’re beginning a new series on IntraHealth’sVITAL about women leaders in global health. We ’ll be featuring women leaders from throughout the health care and global health fields this year to get their insights on what it will take to change the statistics.And where better to start than with Roopa Dhatt and Kelly Thompson, two of the leaders ofWomen in Global Health? Jenny Yi-Chen Lee (of the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction) and I talked with Dhatt and Thompson about what ’s ahead for women in our field.Margarite Nathe: What was it like to start this organization, and what led you to do it in the first place?Roopa Dhatt: My leadership journey is one of the key reasons  I cofounded Women in Global Health. As a fourth-year medical student, I was in a setting encased in tradition and deep-rooted power structures that failed to see women as...
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