By UNSSC — We recently spoke to Alice Ruhweza, Africa Region Director for the Worldwide Fund for Nature. In this spotlight interview, she shares a thought-provoking account of her experience as a female sustainable development leader. She gives us insight into some of the challenges that she has faced and explains how UNSSC’s Sustainable Development Leaders Mastermind Group …
By Kenya Women in Health Alliance What is it like to be a woman in health? Is there a piece of advice you wish someone gave you at the beginning of your career? In this interview series, we’ve asked women working in different areas in the field of health, who are fierce leaders and visionaries, …
By eHealth Network — Dr Shuchin Bajaj, CEO, Founder Director, Ujala Cygnus Hospitals shares his insights on the future roadmap of Health IT in the country. Edited excerpts: Has India’s health care system embarked on a purely digital journey? With the advent of the digital medium in healthcare services, doctors and patients are more connected now …
Interview with Chiwoza Bandawe — Lack of specialist support and growing unemployment are factors in growing mental heatlh crisis, doctors say. Malawi is seeing a sharp rise in suicide rates this year, with some attributing it to the economic stresses of the Covid pandemic. Malawi police service reports an increase of as much as 57% on …
2020 Fellow Masooma Ranvali is a survivor of FGM and a powerful anti-FGM social activist. On March 15, 2020 she was interviewed by The Independent shortly after the non-governmental organization Equality Now warned that UNICEF data on global FGM rates underestimate the scale of the issue. Masooma uses powerful storytelling to shed light on her …