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Jennifer Schechter: #MeToo meets #HealthForAll: How achieving universal health coverage can (and should) drive gender equity

“The #MeToo movement went international recently as a chorus of voices called attention to gender inequities in the fields of global health and development. Laurie Garrett took aim at the power imbalance in public health in her piece on foreign policy. A Twitter storm was unleashed after Duncan Green posted an all-male list of ten […]

August 17, 2021
Vineet Singal: Mask Off: How COVID-19 Exposed Racial Disparities in Healthcare

Agustín Rodríguez was a quiet, deeply religious man originally from El Salvador. He worked in a pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he had a rough job sawing the legs off of dead pigs. He spent most of his time with his wife, Angelita, whom he married a month after they met […]

August 17, 2021
Eric Nam, Tracy Chou & PIH Experts Discuss Racism And Mental Health

Racial violence, police brutality, and other forms of racism don’t just affect the physical safety of Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous people—racism also affects mental health.Yet, for many people of color, mental health care remains costly, hard to access, and stigmatized. Panelists discussed these challenges and more during a virtual event organized by Partners In […]

August 17, 2021
Charlotte Wagner & Catherine Gill: Why Feminist Philanthropy? For All the Relationship Reasons

Here’s an indisputable fact: The future of philanthropy is female. A huge amount of wealth is now in women’s hands, and they are ready to invest it where it’s needed most: 73% of donors worldwide are women. Of the impending $41 trillion wealth transfer between generations, 70%will be inherited by women. Women give almost twice […]

August 17, 2021
Charlotte Wagner: Global health equity is needed to prevent an Ebola pandemic

The following op-ed by Wagner Foundation founder and CEO, Charlotte Wagner, was originally published by The Financial Times 11/22/2019 in response to the Ebola outbreak in the DRC. The article details how global health failures have left the world vulnerable to pandemics. One month after publication, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan, China. […]

August 17, 2021
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