The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is proud to be hosting the second annual Women Leaders in Global Health Conference on 8-9 November 2018.

Women are vital to the advancement of global health, making up 75% of the healthcare workforce – yet occupying less than 25% of influential leadership positions. WLGH18 will bring together established and emerging leaders from across sectors and cultures to work towards gender equity in health leadership and to improve health for all.

Book your place for two days packed with talks, panel discussions, interactive workshops, skills sessions and more. There will also be a mentorship programme open to conference delegates.

Hear from speakers from across the global health sphere including:

Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director-General for Programmes at the World Health Organization
Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies
Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England
Xavier Prats Monné, Director-General for Health and Food Safety at the European Commission
Dr Joanne Liu, International President of Doctors Without Borders

Day 1 sessions include:

What does leadership in Global Health mean?
A cultural lens on gender and organisational leadership
Gender in political leadership
The gender lens on global burden of disease
Moving forward after 50/50
Plus further sessions on big data, IT and technology, global health emergency response, journals addressing gender equity, social entrepreneurship and more.

Day 2 sessions include:

Spotlight on gender, sexual violence and the #MeToo movement
Navigating gender in the private sector
Equity in Academic Global Health Partnerships
Finding and building your leadership voice (Leadership Accelerator)
Systems and design thinking for more effective leadership (Leadership Accelerator)
Work-life balance: different cultural perspectives
Gender lens on refugees and adolescence: serving the needs of adolescent girls in humanitarian crises

View the full conference programme

*Please note that the programme is subject to change.

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For more information contact: WLGH18@lshtm.ac.uk

London 2018 Women Leaders in Global Health Conference