African Women’s Leadership Series: Women Shifting the Health Landscape in Africa

Hello Gender+ Community,

The Liu Institute Network for Africa is leading this event in collaboration with the Collective for Gender+ in Research called “Women Shifting the Health Landscape in Africa” as part of a series on African Women’s Leadership.

This event will serve as a platform to celebrate two speakers’ achievements and contributions as African women in the health sector. Professor Agnes Binagwaho and Professor Sheila Tlou will share their journeys and current work on gender equality and women’s role in Africa’s development agenda. There will also be a Q&A segment called “Ask me anything,” where speakers will engage with mentorship questions from emerging young female leaders and global change agents in the audience. The moderator for this event is Dr. Neo Tapela, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University.

We will be gathering on Zoom using a link emailed to those who register prior to the teach-in. The Zoom link will be emailed closer to the event date.

Date: Wednesday, March 31st 2021
Time: 10:00am–11:30am PST | 6:00-7.30pm GMT | 7:00-8:30pm Rwanda / Botswana
Location: Zoom Meeting (link to follow RSVP)

We look forward to welcoming you! To join us, please RSVP here.

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Dr. Neo Tapela, Senior Research Fellow Oxford University: Neo is a Senior Research Fellow in NDPH’s Translational Epidemiology Unit. Her research interests focus on reducing premature mortality in resource-limited sub-Saharan Africa through enhancing understanding of risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases (particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer), and developing scalable innovative healthcare service delivery interventions that address outcome disparities for these conditions. She has served as PI for multiple NIH-funded projects, including a district-wide cancer early diagnosis initiative in rural Botswana, and a research collaborative to assess needs and build NCD research capacity in Southern Africa.

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, Co-founder and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity: Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD is a Rwandan pediatrician who returned to Rwanda in July of 1996, two years after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Since then, she has provided clinical care in the public sector, served the Rwandan Health Sector (2001-2016) in high-level government positions, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, and 5 years as Minister of Health. She co-founded the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), an initiative of Partners In Health, which focuses on changing how health care is delivered around the world by training global health professionals who strive to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all.

Professor Sheila Tlou, Former UNAIDS Director of the Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Former Member of Parliament and Minister of Health of Botswana: As UNAIDS Regional Director, Prof. Tlou provided leadership and Political Advocacy for sustainable AIDS response in 21 African countries. As Co-Chair of the Nursing Now Campaign, she leads a global movement, run in collaboration with the WHO and ICN, which aims to maximise nurses’ contributions to achievement of Universal Health Coverage. The Global HIV Prevention Coalition addresses the rise in new infections despite success in treatment in all countries. As Minister of Health, Prof. Tlou led a comprehensive AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support program which is still a model in Africa. She represented Eastern and Southern Africa in the Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria. She has received over thirty awards, among them Botswana Presidential Order of Honor, Princess Srinagarindra Award from Thailand, Christianne Reimann Award from ICN, and Princess Muna Al Hussein Award. She is United Nations Eminent Person for Women, Girls, and HIV/AIDS.

Please RSVP here to receive the invitation link!

LIU Institute Network for Africa

About the Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA):
The Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA) at the University of British Columbia is a research-based network branching out of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. This network has emerged from the need for a platform bringing together stakeholders within research and policy institutions to address policy issues in Africa.

About the Collective:
The Collective for Gender+ in Research is hosted by UBC’s Office for Regional and International Community Engagement (UBC ORICE) and works to promote a community for rich dialogue in which gender and other intersections, including race, class, sexuality and ability, are considered when conducting community-based research. The Collective focuses on capacity building and providing the tools researchers need to utilize a gender+ lens.

The Collective for Gender+ in Research acknowledges that we organize, research, and learn on unceded traditional  xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory. We understand that both gender and research have been used as tools of colonization on these lands, and commit to working towards disentangling gender+ research from colonialism and Indigenous genocide.