Rosemary Morgan & Kate Hawkins 
Women and Global Health Leadership [PDF ebook] 
Power and Transformation

​ Women and Global Health Leadership: Power and Transformation.- Gendered Institutions in Global Health.- Interview with Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization.- Gender, Peace, and Health: Promoting Human Security with Women’s Leadership.- Interview with Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.- Academic Journal Publishing: A Pathway to Global Health Leadership.- Interview with Ana Langer, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.- Gender Quotas, the ‘Two-thirds Gender Rule’ and Health Leadership: The Case of Kenya.- Interview with Patricia J. Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH), Former Minister of Health of Peru and Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, Lima.- Women Health Leaders in Kerala: Respectability and Resistance.- Interview with Sabina Faiz Rashid, Dean and Professor at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University.-Leading from the Front: Transforming Policy in Crisis for School-based Sex Education in Ireland.- Interview with Ilona Kickbusch, Independent Global Health Consultant, Former Director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.- Levelling the Terrain for Women in Global Health Leadership: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa, 15. Interview with Sameera Al Tuwaijri, Global Lead on Population and Development at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank.- Responses to Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in the Wake of the Oxfam Sex Scandal and Their Implications for Women’s Leadership.- Interview with Juno Roche, Trans Writer and Campaigner, Patron of clini Q and Author of Three Books: Queer Sex, Trans Power and Gender Explorers.- Women in Health Systems Leadership: Demystifying the Labyrinth.- Interview with Penina Ochola Odhiambo, Former Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Current Principal of the College of Health Sciences at the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya.- Systemic Barriers to Career Growth: Women Outreach Workers of India.- Interview with Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region.- The Glass Ceiling: Gender Segregation Within Health Workforce Leadership with Matriarchal and Patriarchal Societies in Indonesia.- Interview with Senait Fisseha, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School and Director of International Programs at the Susan T. Buffett Foundation.- Health and Hierarchy: Exploring Workforce Inequalities in Uganda and Somaliland.- Interview with Cheryl Overs of the Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, Founder of the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria, the Scarlet Alliance in Australia and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects.- Women’s Leadership in Global Health: Evolution Will Not Bring Equality.

Rosemary Morgan, Ph D is an Associate Scientist within the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She is an expert in gender, gender analysis, and intersectionality in health and health systems research. She works on a number of global and public health projects as a primary investigator or gender advisor, including: the Sex and Gender Analysis Core for the NIH-funded Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza (SADII) Center; the Gender and COVID-19 Project, Risk and Resilience in the Health Workforce: Understanding and Supporting the Experiences of Women Health Workers during COVID-19, Rapid Mortality Mobile Phone Surveys during COVID-19, the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme (UKPHS); and Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems Consortium (Re LAB-HS). She also coordinated the highly successful Research in Gender and Ethics (Rin Gs): Building Stronger Health Systems, a project which brought together four research networks encompassing 23 institutions across 26 countries in a partnership to galvanize gender and ethics analysis in health systems research. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Rosemary was a Lecturer in Global Health Policy for the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh, and a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds. She holds a Ph D in International Health and Development from the University of Leeds, an MSc in Policy Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in Sociology from the University of British Columbia.
Kate Hawkins is a research communications expert with technical expertise in health, gender, and international development. She is the founder and director of Pamoja Communications Ltd. She has worked in international development and health for over 18 years. She began as a community volunteer delivering HIV prevention interventions to vulnerable groups in her home city of Brighton, UK. This led to paid work in the NGO sector on HIV and sexual and reproductive health internationally with a focus on advocacy. Much of her work was with vulnerable and marginalized groups such as women living with HIV and sex workers. From this she moved into global health more generally and was one of the co-founders of Action for Global Health – a pan-European network of campaigners. Later in her career Kate became interested in the role of evidence in policy and programmatic decision-making. She worked in academia and managed a ground-breaking research collaboration on sexuality in the Global South. Since founding her own company, she has managed the communications of many international research consortia working on health and health systems in low- and middle-income countries. Kate is committed to feminism, international solidarity and support, and the realization of rights.
Roopa Dhatt, MD is a practicing internist in Washington, DC, USA, trained in international health and a global health and gender advocate. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Dr. Dhatt is the Executive Director and co-founded Women in Global Health (WGH) in 2015.  She advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on matters of health workforce, gender equity, and universal health coverage. Dr. Dhatt was recognized in the Gender Equality Top 100, the most influential people in global policy 2019. In 2021, the Lancet featured her work on gender equality. As Co-Chair of the Gender Equity Hub in the Global Health Workforce Network of the WHO, she supported WGH in the ‘Delivered by Women, Led by Men’ report which looked collectively for the first time at issues of leadership, decent work free from all forms of discrimination, harassment including sexual harassment, the gender pay gap, and occupational segregation—across the entire health workforce.  Dr. Dhatt has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Davis; a Master’s in Public Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris, France; and a Medical Degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and International Health at Case Western Reserve University. She has academic affiliations at Georgetown University and University of Miami.
Mehr Manzoor is a Fulbright Scholar and a Ph D candidate at Tulane University in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Mehr is a strong advocate for gender equality, intersectionality, and women’s leadership in global health and beyond. Her research work includes gender and intersectionality analysis of global health organizations, and explores issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in workplaces. She is a co-lead author on the technical report “Delivered by Women, Led by Men: A Gender and Equity Analysis in the Global Health and Social Care Workforce”, which explores issues of decent work, organizational segregation, gender pay gap, and leadership in the global health workforce and was published by the Gender Equity Hub at the World Health Organization. She taught Social Aspects of Health to incarcerated women in Louisiana in 2020 as part of Newcomb College Institute and Tulane’s College in Prison project. She was selected as WLGH Leadership Fellow for the inaugural Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) conference in 2017 in Stanford, California, and in 2018 was selected as an Emerging Voice for Global Health (EV4GH) program fellow. She volunteered and served as a research director at Women in Global Health from 2016-2019. She has received Changemaker Catalyst Award by Taylor Center at Tulane University for her work on women’s leadership in global health, and her social venture on women’s leadership in low- and middle-income countries was selected in Taylor Center’s Changemaker Institute at Tulane University in 2021. She holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
Sulzhan Bali is a health specialist with the World Bank, with over a decade of research and work experience in a variety of public health contexts – including health security, emergency response financing, and disease surveillance and response programs. Sulzhan has a track record of publications in top journals, and extensive experience working on low income and fragile countries across West and Central Africa. Her work includes evaluation of global response efforts for multiple major epidemics. Prior to joining the World Bank, Sulzhan worked with the University of Maryland – University College and the Public Health Foundation of India. In the realm of global health governance, Sulzhan has participated in multi-lateral dialogues to discuss global health futures for the next decade as a Bosch Global Governance Futures Fellow. She also served as the Director of Production and HR for This Week in Global Health (TWi GH) – an online video and audio podcast on global health. For her work with TWi GH, Sulzhan was featured in the “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” campaign by The Lancet and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva. Sulzhan completed her Ph D in Molecular Biology with the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and holds degrees from Duke University (M.Sc., Global Health), the University of Manchester (M.Sc., Virology), and the University of Delhi (B.Sc., Microbiology).
Cheryl Overs joined a group of feminist lawyers lobbying for decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work andprotesting violence and discrimination against sex workers in 1981 in Australia. By 1984 that group evolved into a membership-based sex workers group named the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria (PCV). Cheryl led the successful campaign for law reform in Victoria and oversaw the development of innovative programmes for sex workers. In 1988 the PCV hosted the Prostitution and the AIDS Debate Conference in Melbourne which led to the formation of the national federation of sex workers’ organizations, the Scarlet Alliance. In 1992 Overs met Brazilian sexuality activist Paulo Henrique Longo and they founded the International Network of Sex Worker Projects (NSWP). Cheryl was the first director of the NSWP which was based in France before hubs were established in Brazil and South Africa. Cheryl currently works in academia at Monash University where she contributed to the establishment of the Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights. She also works on human rights and sex work issues at Sussex University and the Institute of Development Studies where she has developed an on-line resource centre on sex work research (PLRI); published a map of sex work law and several articles about sex work and human rights in the context of public health and development aid; LGBT rights; economic empowerment and poverty reduction for marginalized women and girls; pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis; and sexual citizenship.