Watch our panel discussion ‘Women Community Health Workers: From Volunteers to Carers’, a #CSW68 side event organized by Women In Global Health & Community Health Impact Coalition. With my co-panelists Dr Roomi Aziz Prossy Muyingo & MoH Liberia we discussed #CHW careers, leadership + #gender youtu.be/swKzLerADcM?si…

Honored to have been part of this esteemed panel of speakers at today's United Nations CSW side event. Let's keep this important conversation going ✨

Join us TODAY at the #CSW68 virtual side event! 📣
Women #CHWs are vital for #HealthForAll , yet are often unrewarded and their expertise is not recognized. Our panelists will address the urgent need to #proCHWs as a matter of gender and economic justice us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Happening today! 🚨
Register & join Women Community Health Workers: from Volunteers to Careers, an online United Nations CSW #CSW68 side event @ 9am EST/ 1400 CET.

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Join us today for Women Community Health Workers: from Volunteers to Careers, a virtual United Nations CSW #CSW68 side event @ 9am EST/1400 CET where I will be an expert panelist talking about #CHW career paths and leadership from an economic & #GenderEquality lens
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'Taking gendered harassment and violence seriously in community health worker programmes is critical for research and practice.'

Svea Closser Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health International Health Roosa Sofia Tikkanen Erin Finley ann keeling

📣 New Research ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/5/e0…

Read our analysis in BMJ Global Health : Community Health Workers are uniquely vulnerable: Mostly females working without institutional, physical, financial or social protection, they face harassment and violence. It's time to take this seriously
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Happy to moderate this Global Health Research School webinar w Pooja Jha Editor of The Lancet Reg Health-Europe for a conversation on publishing in high-impact journals. Lancet is pioneering unique strategies to ensure equitable North-South #globalhealth collaborations, incl. authorship + peer-review

My 3-month fieldwork in #Nepal kicked off with the Norway-Nepal #GlobalHealth Conference organized by UiO - Det medisinske fakultet Institutt for global helse og samfunnsmedisin , #KathmanduUniversity , #DhulikhelHospital + WHO Nepal . Made new friends, gained insight into the health system & was honored to win Best PhD Presentation

This week, I arrived in Nepal for 3 months of PhD fieldwork. In collaboration with Biraj's excellent team @ #DhulikhelHospital #KathmanduUniversity , we hope to contribute towards a better understanding of the future of Community Health Worker Policy and Governance in #Nepal

The Monrovia Call to Action launched at the 2023 CHW Symposium, states 'Community health is the equity arm of primary health care.. To be fully effective, CHWs need to be skilled, supervised, paid a living wage, and supplied' ow.ly/hB3n50NwujK #CHWs

Raj Panjabi: 'Investing in community health workers to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease isn’t only an investment in health equity — it’s an investment in health security'
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'My call to action is to recognize us, put us in high places where we can be examples. Pay us! Professionalize us!' Osielo Odera Community Health Worker from Kenya, speaking at launch of #SheShapes report

Powerful words from Dr. Peju Adeniran : Women Community Health Workers contributed essential tasks during COVID-19 pandemic but in an unpaid capacity. Voluntary work is 'a weak link in global pandemic security' #payCHWs #payWomen #SheShapes Women In Global Health womeningh.org/sheshapes/

Please download & read this important Women In Global Health report on

'The State of Women And Leadership in Global Health'

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Women's perception of leadership different from how the systems they work view leadership. A mismatch as a driver.

We must begin w/ internalizing self-worth, what will happen when internalization & power are allowed to shift the system?
Dr. Peju Adeniran #SheShapes Women In Global Health #Nigeria

Listening in: This fresh report finds female Community Health Workers, despite their critical role delivering primary care and intimate knowledge of health needs in their communities, are typically excluded from formal leadership roles #CHWs #SheShapes #payCHWs #globalhealth

Join us for International Women's Day #IWD2023 in Oslo at this event where I'll be a guest speaker on my PhD topic: Working conditions and labor movements among female Community Health Workers in Nepal and India #CHWs #PayCHWs #feminist #GlobalHealth

'White workers reported mean weekly earnings that were significantly more than members of racial and ethnic minority groups among nonunionized workers... but there was no significant difference between the 2 groups among unionized workers.'
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