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Cdn Chapter of @womeninGH and part of #CWIGH Leadership | A movement for achieving #genderequality in #globalhealth #leadership | Partner of @CAGH_ACSM

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Joined July 2020
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
These health stats should make you uncomfortable. Women power global health—but are underpaid, overworked, underrepresented, and unsafe. You can’t build strong health systems on inequality. #WorldHealthWorkerWeek #WomenInGlobalHealth
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Science saves lives. Inclusion makes it stronger. This #WorldHealthDay, we stand with science—and for women’s leadership in global health. Together for health. #WorldHealthDay #StandWithScience #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #WomenInGlobalHealth
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Community health workers are essential to equitable health systems, yet many remain underpaid and underrecognized. Our latest webinar with @WGHCanada and @CAGH explored how investing in CHWs can strengthen primary care, reduce inequities, and advance gender justice in health.
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Join WGH Canada and CAGH for this webinar on Economic and Gender Justice for #CHW #WGH #CAGH
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Let's work together to eliminate cervical cancer in Canada🇨🇦, It's CERVICAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH in 🇨🇦
It’s Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Cervical cancer is preventable with screening & the HPV vaccine, but access isn’t equal. Let’s close gaps in care & prevention. Learn more: cancer.ca/en/cancer-informat… #HealthEquity #HPV #CancerPrevention
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
🦟 282 million people were infected with malaria last year — and 610,000 died, mostly young children in Africa. The new @WHO World Malaria Report 2025 warns that rising antimalarial drug resistance threatens to worsen this toll. Stronger coordination, sustained funding, and high-quality resistance data are urgently needed. 📊🌍 Read now: 👇 who.int/publications/i/item/…
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Our WGH Canada Annual "Meet and Greet" at #CCGH2025 in Halifax- with leads Dr. Bev Johnson, Dr. Muriel Mac-Seing, Dr. Janet Hatcher Roberts and Dr. Alayne Adams. Delighted the new Board Chair of CAGH Saad El-Din Hassan joined us. @womeninGH
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WGH Canada is at the #CCGH2025 , our plenary on Oct 27 will focus on a call for Economic and Gender Justice for community-based health workers. @womeninGH @wghcanada
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WGH Canada speakers @bev_ajohnson @MMacSeing and Dr. Alayne Adams and from Kenya Dr. Neema Kaseji
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
Can we achieve health equity without women leading the way? Let’s talk about it at CPHIA 2025. 🗓 25 Oct 2025 | 🕖 07:00–08:30 AM SAST 📍 Hall 2C, Durban International Convention Center 💻 Join on Zoom: bit.ly/4qbch4R #CPHIA2025 #HealthEquity #GenderEquity
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📣 Tous les membres sont invités ! Participez à l'assemblée générale annuelle du CAGH au #CCGH2025. 📅 27 octobre | 12 h 30 à 14 h HNA 📍 Centre des congrès d'Halifax + en ligne ✔️ Examinez les progrès réalisés ✔️ Écoutez les dernières nouvelles ✔️ Façonnez l'avenir de la CAGH
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
Reflecting on our Gender & Climate Roundtable with AMREF and Pathfinder, one message stood out clearly: the climate crisis impacts everyone, but not equally. #UNGA80 #GenderAndClimate #ClimateJustice #WomenLead #HealthJustice
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
We are celebrating 10 years of advocating for women’s leadership in global health! 🌐 Translations in Spanish, Portuguese & French 📅Join on zoom: bit.ly/48hSpXp #WGH10years #WGH #womenleadership #WomenInGlobalHealth #HealthEquity #genderjustice
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
🎤Dr. Amelia Tuipulotu, Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization 🎤Margaret Odera, WGH Heroine of Health 🎤Stéphanie Seydoux, Inspector General for Social Affairs, Government of France 🌐 in ES, PT & FR 📅 Zoom: bit.ly/48hSpXp #WGH #HealthEquity #WGH10Years
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
Too many women remain excluded from positions of power due to gender bias, systemic barriers, and a lack of political will. #WomenInLeadership #GenderEquality #DecisionMakingPower #FeministLeadership #HealthForAll
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
Couldn't join us in Geneva? Our co-hosted WHA 78 side events are now available to watch online! Adapting for Impact: 👉 bit.ly/4jryRld Advancing Universal Health Coverage in a Changing World: 👉 bit.ly/44Zq9ao
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
The results are in from #WHA78: Only 26.6% of Chief Delegates were women — down for the 2nd year in a row📉 👉 Full analysis from WGH: bit.ly/4mEcsUx
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @WHO Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!
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Women in Global Health Canada retweeted
🚨 Join us for a milestone moment. We’re getting ready to share the findings of our most ambitious research yet on gender integration in Ethiopian public health supply chains, and you’re invited. Sign up here: bit.ly/3HdwtkB
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Amazing informative webinar with @CAGH_ACSM and @wghcanada today on Gender Inequalities in the Health Workforce in Canada and Globally !
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