Focus Area
Focus Area
We regularly assemble and connect the faculty, staff, students, and trainees to develop new, interdisciplinary collaborations and learn about myriad topics in global health.
We collaborate with organizations like WomenLift Health, founded by CIGH, to drive impactful change for women leaders in global health and research topics such as the role of male allyship in advancing female leadership.
We disseminate evidence and raise awareness about global health inequities and injustices.
We leverage Stanfordʼs interdisciplinary strengths to increase global health knowledge, create solutions, and effectively disseminate them.
We create meaningful global health learning opportunities for Stanford students, trainees, and our global community partners.
Women increase diversity, frequently bringing new perspectives, priorities, and leadership styles that foster collaboration and cross-disciplinary approaches. Women leaders are more likely to prioritize the needs of women, children, and communities. Despite women representing 70% of the health workforce, they are an untapped and underutilized talent pool – filling only 25% of senior and 5% of top health organization positions.
WomenLift Health was formed at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health after the first Women Leaders in Global Health conference in 2017. As the founder of WomenLift Health, Michele Barry, MD, FACP is thrilled that this initiative was successfully incubated at the Center for Innovation and Global Health and transitioned to an independent fiduciary platform to accelerate its global scale-up. The Center for Innovation in Global Health is proud to continue working with WomenLift Health as a trusted collaborator in driving impactful change for women leaders in global health.
With support from WomenLift Health, we’re researching and promoting the components of effective male allyship in advancing women’s leadership in academic global health.
Our collaborator, WomenLift Health, accelerates the involvement of women in global health leadership by investing in and elevating talented mid-career women to become global health leaders.
The WomenLift Health Conference provides a forum for established and emerging leaders to work together to advance gender equity in health leadership and to improve health for all.
Michele Barry
Senior Associate Dean, Global Health
Stanford
The challenges in global health are too big and too complex to leave half the talent sitting on the sidelines
Lour Drick Valsote
Human Biology
2024
Through working with CIGH, I have learned so much about the invaluable role that scientific communication plays in advancing global health. At a time when global health topics are at the forefront of current events, it is crucial that scientists are able to convey information in an accessible and easily digestible format. To be able to share ideas between researchers in the field as well as to inform the general public, communication is paramount.
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