Conf Theme: Health
The WPL Global Study on Immunisation shares the perspectives of political leaders toward vaccination programmes and its importance throughout the landscape of the pandemic. The results aim to illuminate the resilience of vaccination programmes in the context of the COVID-19 disruption, to equip political leaders with insights and actions on how to protect immunisation programmes […]
On June 29th, Women Political Leaders (WPL) brought together multidisciplinary experts to explore women’s health inequalities throughout their life-course. The discussions analysed insights from experts and examined the best policies and practices that have been adopted to tackle the challenges and disparities faced by women. Moderated by Dr. Njoki Ngumi, Writer of She Decides and […]
Strengthening primary health care for all citizens in the world is one of the key goals for a prosperous and sustainable future. In this panel, three former Presidents of states, will look at how leveling global inequality, eradicating poverty and ensuring that every person, regardless of economic circumstance, has the right to a healthy life. […]
Women Political Leaders (WPL) is bringing the voices, expertise and experiences of accomplished women leaders from around the world to the 2020 Concordia Annual Summit, taking place in a digital format on the 21-25 September 2020. Leading into a future of great ambiguity, as COVID-19 continues to spread, Concordia’s tenth Annual Summit will digitally convene […]
How can the global community make better decisions and promote best practices surrounding COVID-19 testing and de-confinement worldwide? The G20 Health and Development Partnership, Women Political Leaders (WPL), and FIND, convenor of the global testing community, have joined forces to bring together women scientific, global health, and political leaders to help inform key decisions around […]
Women Political Leaders (WPL) is organising a Roundtable on the Importance of Female Leadership in Health Workforce in the Royal Society in Dublin, Ireland. The WPL Breakfast will take place on the premises of the 4th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (HRH Forum) in Dublin and the WHO – Global Health Workforce Network hub. WPL […]
After the successful High-level meeting on Maternal Health and Refugee Women which took place in Malta (March 20-21), a new important milestone in order to place maternal health high on the European agenda took place on June 20 at the European Parliament (Brussels). The first event, which was organised by the Women Political Leaders Global […]
The President of Malta and EU Commissioner urge EU countries to take effective action to ensure maternal health for refugee women (News post here) The Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP), under the patronage of H.E. Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta, and in collaboration with MSD for Mothers, organised a high-level meeting on Maternal […]
Following the successful launch of the WIP Working Council during the 2016 WIP Global Summit in Jordan, the WIP Working Council convened female Parliamentarians in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to discuss health barriers to women in the workplace in the region. This meeting took place at the Lebanese Parliament. The objective of the […]