High-Level Policy Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health Women in Global Health Pakistan in collaboration with Population Services International Pakistan hosted a High- Level Policy Forum on “Challenges Confronted by Healthcare Workers in Delivering Sexual & Reproductive Health Services & Recommended Policy Initiatives” on Thursday, 18th January, 2024. The forum was attended by professors in…

Pictures of Strength: Celebrating Pakistani Women in the Healthcare Sector Pakistan, a country with a population of 114 million females, faces significant gender disparity, ranked fifth worst in gender parity globally. Only 22% of women participate in the labor force in the country. However, their participation in health sector is exemplary as they represnt 70%…

Inspiring Women in Health: A Celebration of Excellence Women in Global Health (WGH) and the Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine (PSIM) are uniting to illuminate the remarkable women in healthcare who often go unrecognized. International Women’s Day (IWD) 2024 is just around the corner, and it’s the perfect occasion to recognize and celebrate the outstanding…

Members of WGHPakistan Power Delegation to the Generation Equality Forum Paris 2021

Designing gender-responsive policies for health workforce management Globally women hold a minority of health leadership positions despite the fact that 80 percent of health workers, including students, trainees and academicians, are women. Gender parity in leadership in health is particularly critical to achieve Universal Health Coverage, specially since women carry a disproportionately larger burden of…

Gendered Research for Women in Health Published annually by the World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap report benchmarks 149 countries (as of 2018) on their progress towards gender parity. The report’s Gender Gap Index ranks countries according to indicators across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival and Political…

Mentoring Women Health Leaders of Tomorrow Globally, female decision makers continue to be woefully underrepresented in the senior management in health (Less than 1 in five).  This is true for both state and non-state organizations. Healthcare Fortune 500 do not have a single female CEO. The list of the 50 most influential physician executives and…

Health, Women and Leadership WGH Pakistan aims to create gender equality at all levels of global health, and make global health more gender-equal, through adequate representation by creating opportunities and enabling environment especially in leadership roles. We are working towards creating a robust network supporting women present and active throughout the country and world. We…