Strengthening the Maternal Health Workforce Roundtable

September 24, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

Part of the Women’s Unique Health Needs and the SDGs, a call to action co-hosted by the ECHAlliance and the Society for Women’s Health Research 

The Strengthening the Maternal Health Workforce Roundtable is taking place at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA79) Science Summit this fall. This is a closed, invitation-only event. This roundtable will focus on:

  • Diversifying training and professional pathways into maternal health
  • Maximizing workforce participation; nurses, community health workers
  • Addressing maternal-fetal medicine specialty care across diverse economies
  • Workplace safety and violence prevention This women’s health program will include

This roundtable will take place at the close of “Women’s Unique Health Needs and the SDGs,” an open session about key developments and opportunities to advance women’s health care and research. Read the event agenda here. This agenda is subject to change.

Read more about the full event on the SWHR blog: SWHR to Host Women’s Health Event at the United Nations Science Summit this Fall.

Learn more about the Science Summit United Nations General Assembly (UNGA79).

Details

Date:
September 24, 2024
Time:
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT
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Organizer

SWHR

Speakers

Speakers are listed in alphabetical order. 

Beth Battaglino

HealthyWomen

Beth Battaglino

HealthyWomen

Bio coming soon

Eleanor Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC

President, Medical Women’s International Association

Eleanor Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, FAAC

President, Medical Women’s International Association

Dr Eleanor Ann Nwadinobi, MBBS, EMA, is President of the Medical Women’s International Association. She is also Special Advisor to the Nigeria Safeguarding Resource and Support hub and Co founder of the Every woman treaty, a coalition advocating for a global binding norm to end violence against women.

An independent gender, health, women’s rights, and women, peace, and security expert, her career has spanned working as an anaesthetist in the UK, with ECOWAS on child trafficking, United Nations on girls’ education,HIV/AIDS and as lead researcher on gender-based violence for the World Bank and African Union as team leader for experts who drafted the stabilisation strategy for countries affected by Boko Haram.

Eleanor has presented numerous papers, has several publications and honoured with several awards.

Marleen Temmerman, PhD, MPH

The Aga Khan University

Marleen Temmerman, PhD, MPH

The Aga Khan University

Bio coming soon

About The Hosts

ECHAlliance is the Global Connector for Digital Health connecting 78 Countries and 4.4 billion people. As a member organisation, ECHAlliance brings its global community together in a network of ecosystems that match need and solution, break down silos, transform healthcare, transfer best practices and lessons learned and create economic opportunities. We connect the healthcare dots across the globe. To learn more about ECHAlliance, view our Capability Statement and our 2023 Annual Report.

The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is a national nonprofit and thought leader advancing women’s health through science, policy, and education while promoting research on sex differences to optimize women’s health. Founded in 1990, SWHR is making women’s health mainstream by addressing unmet needs and research gaps in women’s health. The success of SWHR’s science and policy programs is grounded in our ability to convene and leverage the knowledge of our interdisciplinary networks – diverse groups of researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, policy professionals, and other health care leaders with expertise related to specific diseases, conditions, or health topics that either exclusively, differently, or disproportionately affect women. Thanks to SWHR’s efforts, women are now routinely included in most major medical research studies in the United States and more scientists are considering sex as a biological variable in their research. Visit www.swhr.org for more information.

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