100 Women Leaders in Global Health
On November 5, 2014, Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies, launched a Twitter campaign aimed at
showcasing female leadership in global health.
Using the hashtag #wgh100,
Twitter users sent
nominations of women
working at the forefront of
global health all around the
world.
#
Woman Leader in Global Health
1
Melanie Abas
@melanieabas
Research, clinical work and training in
global mental health, King's College
London
2
Founder and chairperson of the Dr.
Hawa Abdi Foundation, human rights
activist and physician
The following list is a
compilation of the first 100
women nominated in just 26
days. They are ordered
alphabetically by surname
with affiliations taken directly
from Twitter profiles or thirdparty sources. Many women
were nominated multiple
times, though only the initial
nominator is noted.
Founder & Administrator of Edna
Maternity Hospital in Somaliland, East
Africa
Through the Fire
@storyofcourage
Irene Agyepong
@IreneAgyepong
Professor, Department of Health Policy,
Planning, and Management at the
University of Ghana’s School of Public
Health
5
Through the Fire
@storyofcourage
Edna Adan
@EdnaAdan
4
Khameer Kidia
@kkidia
Hawa Abdi
@DHAFoundation
3
Nominated by
Pascale Allotey
Associate Director (International) of the
South East Asia Community Observatory
(SEACO)
Sara Bennet
@saracbennett
Asha George
@ashageorge72
2
6
Araceli Alonso
Associate Faculty, School of Medicine
and Public Health, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
7
Monica Arora
Director of Health Promotion and
Tobacco Control Divisions, Adjunct
Assistant Professor, Public Health
Foundation of India
8
Crystallography, Structural Studies of
Neglected Parasite Proteins, Structure
Based Drug Design, Health Disparities,
Education
Associate Prof at Johns Hopkins, CEO of
@FutureHealthSys, Chair @H_S_Global
Marge Berer
Founding editor of Reproductive Health
Matters
11
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
Sara Bennet
@saracbennett
10
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Toyin Asojo
@toyinasojo
9
UW Madison Global
Health Institute
@UWGlobalHealth
Agnes Binagwaho
@agnesbinagwaho
Minister of Health of Rwanda
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Asha George
@ashageorge72
Mwele Malecela
@mwelentuli
12
Anne-Emanuelle Birn
@UofT_PHSA
Professor of Global Health
13
Tewabech Bishaw
President of the Ethiopian Public Health
Association
14
ASPHER President 2014-2015, Professor
at Belgrade University, Faculty of
Medicine, Centre School of Public Health
and Management
Independent global public health
practitioner and advocate for NCDs
being higher on the global agenda
Fiona Lander
@fionalander
Carme Borrell
@carme1848
Public health worker, Barcelona. Editor
in chief of Gaceta Sanitaria
17
Ulrich Laaser
@laaseru
Ruth Bonita
@iPHC2
16
Ulrich Laaser
@laaseru
Vesna Bjegovic
@VesnaBjegovic
15
Suzanne Sicchia
@DrSicchia
Lucia Ruggiero
@luciaruggiero
Sarah Boseley
@sarahboseley
Journalist on the Guardian, writing about
health
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
3
18
Maria Elena Bottazzi
@mebottazzi
Associate Dean, National School of
Tropical Medicine, Professor in
Pediatrics & Deputy Director Sabin
Vaccine Institute PDP at BCM and TCH
19
Jo Ivey Boufford
President of The New York Academy of
Medicine
20
Chris Brown
Programme Manager of the WHO
European Office for Investment for
Health and Development
21
Director @OSFHealth, working to
advance health and human rights. Board
Member @MSF_Canada
Director-General of the World Health
Organization
Mirai Chatterjee
Coordinator of Social Security for India's
Self-Employed Women's Association,
SEWA
24
Ishita Chaudhry
@ishitachaudhry
Executive Director, the YP Foundation
25
Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health, The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
26
Administrator @UNDP and former Prime
Minister of New Zealand
Medical journal editor at icddr,b, an
international health research
organisation located in Bangladesh
Chelsea Clinton
@ChelseaClinton
Clinton Foundation
29
Lucie Cluver
Associate Professor of Evidence-based
Social Intervention, University of Oxford
30
Ulrich Laaser
@laaseru
creates better lives for
families, communities and,
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Sara Bennet
@saracbennett
increasingly, the countries
they have been elected to
govern.
Every time a woman excels
Asha George
@ashageorge72
Ruth Landry
@rl_sf
in a high-profile position, her
achievement lifts the social
status of women
everywhere.”
Lucia Ruggiero
@luciaruggiero
- Margaret Chan
Jocalyn Clark
@jocalynclark
28
are agents of change. They
are the driving force that
Helen Clark
@HelenClarkUNDP
27
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Mariam Claeson
@MariamClaeson
“In health development, as
in many other areas, women
Margaret Chan
@WHO
23
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
Marine Buissonniere
@buissonnierem
22
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
Sonia Corrêa
Co-chair, Sexuality Policy Watch
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Khameer Kidia
@kkidia
Asha George
@ashageorge72
Message on International Women’s
Day, 2014
4
Woman Leader in Global Health
Vera da Costa e Silva
Nominated by
Sebastian Peña
@spenafajuri
Head of the Secretariat of the WHO
Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control (CSF)
32
Pam Das
Lancet Editor, Global Health Advocate
33
Maree Davidson
Rebecca Zosel
@rzosel
Social Change and Communications
Consultant, Strategic Planner
34
Evelyne de Leeuw
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
@evelynedeleeuw
Principal, Global Health Consultants
35
Mandeep Dhaliwal
Fiona Lander
@fionalander
@Mandeep_Dh
Director of UNDP's HIV, Health and
Development Group
36
Kim Yi Dionne
@dadakim
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
@5Colleges Assistant Professor of
Government @SmithCollege & Regular
Contributor @monkeycageblog
37
Lori DiPrete Brown
@LDiPreteBrown
Associate Director, UW-Madison Global
Health Institute
38
Elena Dmitrieva
Director of the Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO)
Assistant Professor of Health Policy
@UHManoaNews. Research Fellow
@CGDev
Sharon Fonn
Head, School of Public Health, University
of the Witwatersrand
42
Judy Twigg
@jtwigg9
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Asha George
@ashageorge72
Susannah Fox
@SusannahFox
Entrepreneur in Residence at the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
43
Health
Victoria Fan
@FanVictoria
41
Global
Carissa Etienne
@CarissaEtienne
40
Women
UW Madison Global
Health Institute
@UWGlobalHealth
Moscow's Health and Development
Foundation. Leader of mHealth in Russia,
text4baby
39
100
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
@pam_das
in
#
31
Lucia Ruggiero
@luciaruggiero
Sharon Friel
@SharonFrielOz
Professor Health Equity at the Australian
National University
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
5
44
Alexandra Garita
@alegaygrita
Coordinates RESURJ and is the President
of Equis: Justice for Women
45
Laurie Garrett
@Laurie_Garrett
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign
Relations
46
Melinda Gates
@melindagates
Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
47
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jean Geran
@jeangeran
Founder and President, Each Inc.
49
Lucy Gilson
@Lucy_Gilson
Health policy & systems researcher
50
Medical oncologist, global health
researcher
Global health policy with a focus on
financing and economics
Executive Director, American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Assistant Professor of Global Health
Policy at NYU-Wagner
Mwele Malecela
@mwelentuli
Erin Hohlfelder
@Global_ErinH
Jaclyn Schiff
@J_Schiff
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Caris Grimes
@carisgrimes
General and Colorectal Surgery and a
Global Surgery Affiliate at Kings Centre
for Global Health
55
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Karen Grepin
@KarenGrepin
54
UW Madison Global
Health Institute
@UWGlobalHealth
Karen Goraleski
@goraleskik
53
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Amanda Glassman
@glassmanamanda
52
K KemppainenBertram
@KatriBertram
Ophira Ginsburg
@OphiraG
51
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
Asha George
@ashageorge72
48
Asha George
@ashageorge72
Manisha Gupte
Co-founder of MASUM
Sara Naraghi
@SNaraghi
Asha George
@ashageorge72
6
56
Sarah Hawkes
Reader in Global Health at the Institute
of Global Health
57
HIV Information for
Myanmar [him]
@himmoderator
Erin Hohlfelder
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
@Global_ErinH
Global Health Policy Director for
@ONECampaign
58
Ruth Hussey
Bruce Whitear
@WhitearBruce
@CMOWales
Chief Medical Officer for Wales
59
Zsuzsanna Jakab
Director of the World Health
Organization's Regional Office for
Europe
60
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Jen Kates
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
@jenkatesdc
VP; Director of Global Health & HIV
Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
61
Adeodata Kekitiinwa
Executive Director @bayloruganda
62
Nancy Kendall
Associate Professor of Educational Policy
Studies, University of WisconsinMadison
63
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
UW Madison Global
Health Institute
@UWGlobalHealth
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
64
Strategically located in the heart of
Geneva, the "health capital of the
world", the Global Health
Programme is a leading research
institution on governance for
health and a centre of excellence
in global health diplomacy
worldwide.
The Global Health Programme
builds capacity by engaging in
research, knowledge translation
and diffusion as well as by
conducting extensive executive
training in global health diplomacy
for and with major stakeholders in
Geneva and worldwide.
Jocalyn Clark
@jocalynclark
Director, Global Health Programme,
Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies
The Global Health Programme is
also unique as a research
institution integrated into an
institute of international relations
and development.
The Global Health Programme
(GHP) is the Graduate Institute`s
research, training and capacity
building programme focusing on
global health governance and
diplomacy. It is one of the first of
its kind and it reflects the wider
trend in both the practice and
analysis of global health, which
pays increasing attention to the
links between health, foreign
policy, trade and development.
Monika Kosinska
@mikakosinska
Programme Manager, Governance for
Health, World Health Organization
65
Margaret Kruk
@mkruk
Associate Professor of Health Policy and
Management at Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
66
Medical Doctor, Lawyer, MPH candidate
@HarvardHSPH, Human rights & health
law consultant
Kelley Lee
Associate Dean, Research and Director of
Global Health, Simon Fraser University
68
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
Fiona Lander
@fionalander
67
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Geneviève Bois
@GenBois
Catherine Jones
@_CatJones_
Judith Mackay
@taiqiwoman
Honorary Professor at School of Public
Health and Primary Care, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, international
anti-tobacco advocate
Michael Eriksen
@MPEriksen
7
#
69
Woman Leader in Global Health
Julie Makani
@juliemakani
Scientist|Doctor - Sickle Cell Disease
70
Director General, National Institute for
Medical Research, Tanzania
The Global Childhood TB Program at
Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor
College of Medicine
Ann McNeill
Professor of Tobacco Addiction, UK
Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies
(UKCTAS), Kings College London
73
Director of Nossal Institute for Global
Health, University of Melbourne
Carolyn Miles
@carolynsave
President & CEO, Save the Children
75
Regional Director, WHO Regional Office
for Africa (WHO AFRO)
Global Health, HIV and Development
Policy. Global Health Governance. Health
workforce. Access to medicines
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research
Programme
Mwele Malecela
@mwelentuli
Catherine Jones
@_CatJones_
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Suerie Moon
@SuerieMoon
Research Director and Co-Chair of the
Forum on Global Governance for Health,
Harvard Global Health Institute and
Harvard School of Public Health
79
Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Sassy Molyneux
@SassyMolyneux
78
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Sigrun Møgedal
@GPGHRH
77
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Matshidiso Moeti
@tshidi_moeti
76
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
Barbara McPake
@bmcpake
74
Jocalyn Clark
@jocalynclark
Anna Mandalakas
@GlobalTB
72
Mwele Malecela
@mwelentuli
Mwele Malecela
@mwelentuli
71
Nominated by
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health for
@RinGsRPC
Antara
@AntaraInsight
8
80 Kristy Murray
@drkristymurray
Assoc. Vice-Chair
Research/Assoc. Prof Pediatrics
at Baylor College of Med. and
Texas Children's
Jaclyn Schiff
@J_Schiff
Human well-being, equity and
accountability in health
Sara Bennet
@saracbennett
@J_Schiff
@ElizabethPisani
83 Samantha Power
@AmbassadorPower
US Ambassador to the UN
Sara Naraghi
@SNaraghi
Obstetrician/Gynecologist
working globally for women
and children
Students for Kids International
Projects (SKIP) Trustee chair,
FY2 Doctor Hull Royal Infirmary
Ilona Kickbusch
@IlonaKickbusch
88 Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Erin Hohlfelder
@Global_ErinH
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
89 Gita Sen
Lucia Ruggiero
@luciaruggiero
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
@gita_sen
Adjunct Professor of Global
Health and Population,
Department of Global Health and
Population, Harvard School of
Public Health
Sara Naraghi
@SNaraghi
Suzanne Sicchia
@DrSicchia
90 Vandana Shiva
@drvandanashiva
85 Sian Reece-Loram
@SianReeceLoram
Communications Director,
American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Executive Director
@BaylorRomania
84 Susan Raine
@susanraine
Alliances Development &
Knowledge Management
Specialist, Health services
research
87 Jaclyn Schiff
82 Elizabeth Pisani
Director of Ternyata Ltd., a
public health consultancy
based in London.
Epidemiologist and author
(Wisdom of Whores, Indonesia
Etc.)
86 Lucia Ruggiero
@luciaruggiero
81 Joy Phumaphi
@joy_phumaphi
#WGH100
Author and alter-globalization
activist
Suzanne Sicchia
@DrSicchia
91 Devi Sridhar
@devisridhar
Edinburgh Medical School &
Oxford Blavatnik School of Govt.
Save the Children UK Trustee
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
9
#
92
Woman Leader in Global Health
Jessica Taaffe
@JessicaTaaffe
Global Health Scientist
93
Marleen Temmerman
@MamaDaktari
Director, Department of Reproductive
Health and Research, WHO
94
Gender equity & international health,
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Executive Director, The Every Mother
Counts Campaign
UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern
and Southern Africa. Former Minister of
Health of Botswana
Joy Townsend
Emeritus Professor of Economics and
Primary Health Care, London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
98
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
Charles Birungi
@C_Birungi
Chris Brookes
@chrisbrookes31
Christy Turlington
@CTurlington
Founder, The Every Mother Counts
Campaign
99
Rosemary Morgan
@RosemaryJMorgan
Sheila Tlou
@_dinotshe
97
Consulate of Belgium
in Mombasa
@ConsulBelMombas
Erin Thornton
@ETThornton
96
Jaclyn Schiff
@J_Schiff
Sally Theobald
@sallytheobald
95
Nominated by
Jeanette Vega
@jeanvegamorales
Medico Salubrista
TexasChildrensGlobal
@TCHGlobalHealth
Equity and Health
@equityhealthdev
100 Helen Ward
@profhelenward
Director of Education for the School of
Public Health, Imperial College, London
Sara Naraghi
@SNaraghi
100 Women
GLOBAL
Leaders in HEALTH