About The Summit
Women in Global Health (WGH) is partnering with Wagner Foundation and Foreign Policy to deliver a high-level Digital Summit during the UN General Assembly. The Women in Global Health Security Summit will amplify the voices of women, with a particular focus on women from low-middle income countries, that are leading the response to COVID-19. During the Digital Summit, we will announce commitments from institutions and individuals and pledges from governments that will further gender parity in global health security during COVID-19 and for the future of pandemic preparedness.
This Digital Summit will galvanize commitments towards gender parity in global health security from organizations, institutions, research bodies, foundations, and networks, and support the reaffirmation of pledges towards Sustainable Development Goal 5 from governments. Some of the commitments and pledges will be announced during the Digital Summit on the 17th of September. The opportunity to make pledges or commitments will remain open until the close of 2020.
Please join us in confronting the power and privilege that undermine global health by preventing women from contributing equally to the fight against challenges like this pandemic.
Learn more about the commitments HERE.
Learn more about the pledges HERE.
The Summit content and outcomes will feed into three WGH led initiatives at the global and national level through:
In 2021 the world will mark 25 years since the Fourth World Conference for Women in 1995. In a series of high-profile events, governments, United Nations agencies, international organisations, and the women’s movement will review progress made on the Platform for Action and outline a future roadmap for gender equality and women’s rights. WGH will play an active role in the Beijing25 Generation Equality Forum, highlighting the contribution of women in global health and particularly, the urgent need for gender equality in health leadership.
In 2019 the world’s governments met at a landmark UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and made strong commitments to deliver UHC, with gender responsive health systems, by 2030. WGH as one of the founders and co-convenors of the civil society global Alliance for Gender Equality and UHC, an alliance of over 120 NGOs, will continue to support governments, WHO, and international agencies to ensure those commitments are delivered. UHC cannot be achieved without gender equity in the health workforce.
As co-Chair with WHO of WHO’s Gender Equity Hub for the global health workforce network, WGH convenes a global network of experts to drive large-scale gender-transformative policy change on gender equity and eliminating bias in the health and social workforce.