Date: We dnesday March 31\, 2021
Event description:
The month of March is Women’s History Month\, a unique period
that marks women’s historical and contemporary nobel achievements across t
he world. In line with this significant moment and the impetus for gender e
quality\, our new African Women’s Leadership Series
For our first installment of the series\, this eve nt will serve as a platform to celebrate two incredible African women leade rs’ achievements in shaping and advancing the African and global health sec tor. The event will also be an opportunity for emerging young female leader s and global change agents in the audience to learn from and be inspired by the career journeys of the speakers. Professor Agnes Binagwaho and Profess or Sheila Tlou will share their journeys and current work on improving heal th\, gender equality and women’s role in Africa’s development agenda. There will also be an opportunity to ask them questions\, in a Q&A segment calle d “Ask me anything.” The moderator for this event is Dr. Neo Tapela.
There is an optional dress code: Af rican prints encouraged!
Thi s event is brought to you on behalf of the Liu Institute Network for Africa (LINA)\, and the Collective for Gender+ in Research\, hosted at the University of British Columbia’s Office fo r Regional and International Community Engagement (UBC ORICE)\, all within the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (UBC SPPGA).
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Dr. Neo Tapela\, Senior Research Fellow\, Un iversity of Oxford
Dr Tapela is an internal medicine physician\, epid emiologist and implementation researcher who is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Hea lth. Her research specializes in understanding the determinants and outcome s of chronic non communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub-Saharan Africa\, and d esigning innovative equity-driven interventions to address these conditions in integrated ways and particularly serving rural and poor populations. Sh e has over a decade’s experience leading funded research in the region\, co upled with practical experience in health policy\, NCD strategic planning a nd program leadership in Rwanda (Director of NCDs Program with the internat ional equity-driven NGO\, Partners In Health) and Botswana (former Head of Botswana’s National NCDs Program).
Professor Agnes Binagwaho\, Co-founder and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Eq uity and Former Minister of Health in Rwanda
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 publ ic sector\, served the Rwandan Health Sector (2001-2016) in high-level gove rnment positions\, first as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National AI DS Control Commission\, then as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Heal th\, and 5 years as Minister of Health. She co-founded the University of Gl obal Health Equity (UGHE)\, an initiative of Partners In Health\, which foc uses on changing how healthcare is delivered around the world by training g lobal health professionals who strive to deliver more equitable\, quality h ealth services for all.
Professor Binagwaho currently resides in Rwan da and is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity. Sh e is also a senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social M edicine at Harvard Medical School\, a Professor of Pediatrics at UGHE\, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth’s Geisel S chool of Medicine. Professor Binagwaho’s academic engagements include resea rch in implementation sciences\, research on human rights to health\, healt h services delivery systems strengthening\, HIV/AIDS\, and pediatric care. She has published over 190 peer- reviewed articles.
Profesor Sheila Tlou\, Form er UNAIDS Director of the Regio nal Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa\, Former Member of Parliam ent and Minister of Health of Botswana
Prof. Sheila Tlou is Co-Chair of the Global HIV Prevention Coalit ion and Co-Chair of Nursing Now Global Campaign. She is former UNAIDS Regio nal Director for Eastern/Southern Africa\, former Minister of Health of Bot swana\, and former Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Dev elopment in Primary Health Care.
As UNAIDS Regional Director\, Prof. Tlou provided leadership and Pol itical Advocacy for sustainable AIDS response in 21 African countries. As C o-Chair of the Nursing Now Ca mpaign\, 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. A s Minister of Health\, Prof. Tlou led a comprehensive AIDS prevention\, tre atment\, care and support program which is still a model in Africa. She rep resented Eastern and Southern Africa in the Board of the Global Fund for AI DS\, TB and Malaria. She has received over thirty awards\, among them Botsw ana Presidential Order of Honor\, Princess Srinagarindra Award from Thailan d\, Christianne Reimann Award from ICN\, and Princess Muna Al Hussein Award . She is United Nations Eminent Person for Women\, Girls\, and HIV/AIDS. < /span>
Prof. Tlou has a PhD in Nursi ng from University of Illinois at Chicago and has many publications on Huma n rights and HIV/AIDS.
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