Gender transformative policies and the health workforce: key recommendations and findings
The Gender Equity Hub (GEH), co-chaired by Women in Global Health and the World Health Organization's Global Health Workforce Network hosted a webinar on August 7th, 2018. The webinar provided overview of the findings of the GEH consultative working paper on Gender and Equity in the Global Health Workforce that Mehr Manzoor and Dr. Kelly Thompson from Women in Global Health have been leading. The key policy recommendations were also shared that called for adoption of gender transformative approaches to addressing health workforce challenges and achieving gender equality. The webinar was well attended and participants represented various sectors including academia, research, health workforce, WHO member states and GEH members. Below are the presentations given during the webinar.