Main description:

Women represent the majority of people working to improve health outcomes in communities, non-governmental and multilateral organizations, both as paid and unpaid health and social care workers. So why is it that when it comes to leadership positions, we have a governance system that privileges men and what can we do to redress the imbalance? This ground-breaking collection explores the leadership roles that women hold in global health, teasing out the routes women have taken to leadership, the challenges they have faced, and what has facilitated their journey. It brings to the fore the stories of women on the frontlines of this struggle from around the world, highlighting and complementing these stories with theoretical and analytical explorations of the structures and systems that help or hinder the process. Among the topics explored:

Gendered Institutions in Global Health
Gender, Peace, and Health: Promoting Human Security with Women's Leadership
Academic Journal Publishing: A Pathway to Global Health Leadership
Women in Health Systems Leadership: Demystifying the Labyrinth
Women's Leadership in Global Health: Evolution Will Not Bring Equality

The book is a rallying call to arms to redress gender inequality and celebrate the many ways in which women are taking the lead in supporting the health of their communities internationally.

Women and Global Health Leadership is a must-read for those working in or studying global health. It is also a primer that aims to support other women in their efforts and struggles to succeed in a highly unfair and unequal world. The book will engage ministers of health, policy-makers, practitioners, academicians, students, researchers, healthcare workers, health service managers, and members of multilateral organizations. By highlighting key barriers and facilitators to women in global health leadership, organizations can use this book to help inform the development of institutional policies and procedures to support women in leadership positions across academic, health workforce, and global health governance systems. It also can be used within postgraduate courses focusing on the global heath workforce, leadership and management, and women's studies.

Contents:

1. Women and Global Health Leadership: Power and Transformation, Kate Hawkins, Rosemary Morgan, Cheryl Overs, Mehr Manzoor, Roopa Dhatt and Sulzhan Bali

2. Gendered Institutions in Global Health, Claire Somerville

3. Interview with Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization

Sulzhan Bali and Roopa Dhatt

4. Gender, Peace, and Health: Promoting Human Security with Women's Leadership, Yara M. Asi

5. Interview with Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa

Sulzhan Bali and Roopa Dhatt

6. Academic Journal Publishing: A Pathway to Global Health Leadership, Jamie Lundine, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, and Dina Balabanova

7. Interview with Ana Langer, Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Mehr Manzoor

8. Gender Quotas, the 'Two-thirds Gender Rule' and Health Leadership: The Case of Kenya, Kui Muraya

9. Interview with Patricia J. Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH), Former Minister of Health of Peru and Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, Lima

Mehr Manzoor

10. Women Health Leaders in Kerala: Respectability and Resistance, Devaki Nambiar, Gloria Benny, and Hari Sankar

11. Interview with Sabina Faiz Rashid, Dean and Professor at the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University

Mehr Manzoor and Kate Hawkins

12. Leading from the Front: Transforming Policy in Crisis for School-based Sex Education in Ireland, Ann Nolan

13. Interview with Ilona Kickbusch, Independent Global Health Consultant, Former Director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Sulzhan Bali and Roopa Dhatt

14. Levelling the Terrain for Women in Global Health Leadership: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa, Stella Bakibinga, Elizabeth Bakibinga, John Daniel Ibembe and Pauline Bakibinga

15. Interview with Sameera Al Tuwaijri, Global Lead on Population and Development at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank

Sulzhan Bali

16. Responses to Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in the Wake of the Oxfam Sex Scandal and Their Implications for Women's Leadership, Cheryl Overs and Kate Hawkins

17. Interview with Juno Roche, Trans Writer and Campaigner, Patron of cliniQ and Author of Three Books: Queer Sex, Trans Power and Gender Explorers

Cheryl Overs

18. Women in Health Systems Leadership: Demystifying the Labyrinth, Zahra Zeinali

19. Interview with Penina Ochola Odhiambo, Former Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Current Principal of the College of Health Sciences at the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya

Rosemary Morgan and Kate Hawkins

20. Systemic Barriers to Career Growth: Women Outreach Workers of India, Manasee Mishra, Barun Kanjilal, and Dilip Ghosh

21. Interview with Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of the WHO South-East Asia Region

Sulzhan Bali and Roopa Dhatt

22. The Glass Ceiling: Gender Segregation Within Health Workforce Leadership with Matriarchal and Patriarchal Societies in Indonesia, Nuzulul Kusuma Putri

23. Interview with Senait Fisseha, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School and Director of International Programs at the Susan T. Buffett Foundation

Sulzhan Bali and Roopa Dhatt

24. Health and Hierarchy: Exploring Workforce Inequalities in Uganda and Somaliland, Summer Simpson and Raquel Perez Canal

25. Interview with Cheryl Overs of the Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, Founder of the Prostitutes Collective of Victoria, the Scarlet Alliance in Australia and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects

Kate Hawkins

26. Women's Leadership in Global Health: Evolution Will Not Bring Equality, Roopa Dhatt and Ann Keeling