This year, the #IWD theme expressed a global call to #ChooseToChallenge. Beyond being an annual theme, we have a collective responsibility to keep amplifying response to that call.
This September, in partnership with WomenLift Health , the HLA is excited to host a Special Virtual Speaker Session on the realities of gender equality in Africa, with the aim of triggering a strategic shift in the narrative surrounding the role of African women in health.
We invite you to join us in this value-loaded panel session featuring African health leaders whose insights will go beyond highlighting the challenges and gaps to creating a deeper understanding of diversity and inclusion in health; spotlighting the contributions of women to health in Africa and exploring why achieving true gender parity in health leadership is central to improving health outcomes in Africa
You do not want to miss this!
This year, the #IWD theme expressed a global call to #ChooseToChallenge. Beyond being an annual theme, we have a collective responsibility to keep amplifying response to that call.
This September, in partnership with WomenLift Health , the HLA is excited to host a Special Virtual Speaker Session on the realities of gender equality in Africa, with the aim of triggering a strategic shift in the narrative surrounding the role of African women in health.
We invite you to join us in this value-loaded panel session featuring African health leaders whose insights will go beyond highlighting the challenges and gaps to creating a deeper understanding of diversity and inclusion in health; spotlighting the contributions of women to health in Africa and exploring why achieving true gender parity in health leadership is central to improving health outcomes in Africa
You do not want to miss this!
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Yente earned her M.Phil from the University of Johannesburg after completing her undergraduate and Honours Degrees in Human Movement Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Through specializing in Youth Development and creating safe spaces for NCD prevention programs through physical activity (sport for development), Yente developed a strong passion for promoting community health in South Africa’s rural areas by starting out working with a local grassroots organization focused on promoting female empowerment.
From 2015 -2017, Yente worked as the Program Manager for Africa’s first Olympic Studies Centre based at UJ, where she travelled extensively around South Africa to conduct impact assessments for several development initiatives and campaigns funded by UNICEF South Africa. Yente is currently the Regional Director and Internship Director for Global Leadership Adventures, a youth development and service-learning organization which runs in-country leadership programs and virtual leadership programs for youth around the world.
Dr. Chintu is a pediatrician with over 15 years of public health experience in HIV, maternal and child health.
As Africa Partnership Director, she will lead WomenLift’s expansion into Africa, with plans to establish a regional hub in East Africa in 2021 and launch a fully funded, year-long training and mentorship program for mid-career African women leaders in health. She will also help build a network of partners and leaders across the continent committed to women’s leadership and gender equality in health.
Dr. Coutinho is a Global health leader who has practiced medicine and public health in Africa for the past 37 years. He most recently was the Executive Director for Partners in Health in Rwanda 2015-2018 and is the current Chair of the Board of the International Partnership for Microbicides based in Washington DC. He is also the Program Director, Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Program at Africa CDC.
Dr. Alex has led large-scale public health programs in Africa. He has been involved with the HIV/AIDS epidemic since 1982. He spent seven years as executive director of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Uganda, where he oversaw prevention, care and treatment research and services for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Previously, he led The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), the largest AIDS care and support organization in sub-Saharan Africa, and has served on public and academic sector teams working to strengthen health services and systems in Swaziland, Rwanda and Nigeria.
His passion is Global Health as well as leadership development and mentoring. He is an articulate and compelling public speaker who has addressed many large scale global health meetings with key note addresses and presentations and is able to communicate complex issues in an accurate but easy-to-understand narrative to varying audiences.
