Female global health leadership: data-driven approaches to close the gender gap
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TextPublisher number: Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz Language: English Series: ; The Lancet Volume 393 Issue 10171 Publication details: Mwanza, Tanzania: Elsevier & Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] 2019/2/9 Description: Pages 521-523Online resources: Summary: Women hold a minority of health leadership positions globally. Yet, 75–80% of trainees, health workers, and faculty interested in global health are women. 1, 2 This disparity in global health leadership negatively affects health outcomes for women and children worldwide. 3 We aimed to investigate the gender-based challenges of female health trainees and professionals, and identify datadriven interventions. For this study, we recruited women from Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York (NY, USA) and three international centres affiliated with WCM: the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections in Haiti, Weill Bugando School of Medicine at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania, and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in India. Participants were recruited by use of emails via insitutional mailing lists, flyers posted
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| RESEARCH ARTICLES | MWALIMU NYERERE LEARNING RESOURCES CENTRE-CUHAS BUGANDO | NFIC | RA0894 | -1 | RA0894 |
Women hold a minority of health leadership positions globally. Yet, 75–80% of trainees, health workers, and faculty interested in global health are women. 1, 2 This disparity in global health leadership negatively affects health outcomes for women and children worldwide. 3 We aimed to investigate the gender-based challenges of female health trainees and professionals, and identify datadriven interventions. For this study, we recruited women from Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York (NY, USA) and three international centres affiliated with WCM: the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections in Haiti, Weill Bugando School of Medicine at the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania, and Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College in India. Participants were recruited by use of emails via insitutional mailing lists, flyers posted
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