Advancing women’s leadership in global health research: news, resources and funding
Diverse perspectives are essential to advancing science, especially in global health. Women in particular face additional, unique barriers in the field of global health research, and must have equal opportunities to highlight their expertise, voice their opinions, influence the direction of research, and hold leadership positions.
NIH supports and encourages equitable roles for women in scientific research worldwide. The NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers helps bolster women in scientific research. Across NIH, women now lead 10 of the 27 Institutes and Centers. And NIH is committed to balanced gender representation at scientific meetings and high-level conferences, including ending the tradition of all-male speaking panels. Fogarty leadership and staff enthusiastically support this effort.
Providing work environments free of harassment is critical to making sure women can fully contribute to and participate in biomedical research. NIH is committed to taking action to change the culture of science to end sexual harassment. The Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) Working Group on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment is holding NIH accountable for demonstrating progress. NIH has outlined harassment and discrimination protections in NIH training applications for the extramural research community, and has released guidelines for organizations receiving NIH funding.
Other organizations are leading the effort to advance gender equity in health leadership. The annual Women Leaders in Global Health Conference brings together established and emerging leaders from across sectors and cultures. Women in Global Health works with other global health organizations to help them achieve gender equality in their spaces of influence. And recently-published articles in leading scientific publications detail how other organizations are scrutinizing their programs and policies to act to improve gender equity.
Top News
- Diversity strengthens global health science: Opinion by Fogarty Director Dr Roger I Glass
July / August 2019 Global Health Matters - Comment: Women's global health leadership in LMICs [Open access]
The Lancet Global Health, August 12, 2019 (online) - The power of 10: Women leaders of NIH
Blog post by National Library of Medicine Director Dr. Patti Brennan, July 23, 2019 - Statement on increasing diversity in the global health workforce by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
Fogarty news, July 1, 2019 - Time to end the manel tradition
Statement from NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins
NIH news, June 12, 2019 - Let’s all contribute to the demise of manels by Dr. Michele Barry
Scope from Stanford University School of Medicine, June 27, 2019 - Achieving gender equity at conferences by Dr. Mike Lauer
NIH Office of Extramural Research Open Mike blog, July 22, 2019 - Reflections on [women in] leadership: Seizing and embracing opportunities - holding up half the sky by Dr. Barbara J. Stoll
JAMA, June 11, 2019 - Changing the culture of science to end sexual harassment
Statement from NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins
NIH news, September 17, 2018
Related Fogarty News and Information
- Women Leaders in Global Health (WLGH) conference seeks to advance women in global health
Jan / Feb 2019 Global Health Matters - NIH trying to change science culture, boost women’s role
Sep / Oct 2018 Global Health Matters - Opinion: How can we encourage female leaders in global health? by Fogarty Director Dr. Roger I. Glass
Jul / Aug 2017 Global Health Matters
NIH News and Resources
- NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers
- NIH Woman Scientist Advisors (WSA) from the NIH Office of Intramural Research
- NIH Anti-Sexual Harassment
- Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (ACD) Working Group on Changing the Culture to End Sexual Harassment
- Notice of Clarification Regarding Harassment and Discrimination Protections in NIH Training Applications (NOT-OD-19-056), released January 2019
Other Online Resources
- Global health organizations and events:
- Event: Women Leaders in Global Health Conference
November 9 - 10, 2019
Kigali, Rwanda
Submit abstracts and applications for full scholarships (transport, accommodation and registration) by August 30, 2019. - Women in Global Health
- Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
- Other organizations and events:
- Women in Medicine from the American College of Physicans
- Women Physicians from the American Medical Association
- Women in Medicine Summit
- Women in Medicine
- Publications:
- Report: Delivered by Women, Led by Men: A Gender and Equity Analysis of the Global Health and Social Workforce
WHO, March 2019 - Report: Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 2018 - A new vision for global health leadership
co-authored by Dr. Michele Barry
The Lancet, December 9, 2017 - Role Models - a series of articles profiling successful female innovators and scientists from SciDev.Net
- The Ripple Effect: Promoting Female Leadership in Academic Global Health [Video]
Session at the 2017 Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference, April 7, 2017 - Increasing women in leadership in global health
Academic Medicine, August 1, 2014
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