The Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative

This high-level session at the Generation Equality Forum is part of the campaign to raise awareness of the Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative. We aim to turn applause into action for health and care workers. We will feature the perspectives of a frontline health worker speaking alongside political leaders and other prominent voices from global health, including:

• H.E. General Umaro Cissoko Embaló, President, Guinea-Bissau
• H.E. Olivier Véran, Minister of Solidarity and Health, France
• H.E. Dr Wilhelmina Jallah, Minister Health and Social Welfare, Liberia
• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization
• Dr Anuradha Gupta, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, GAVI
• Dr Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director, Women in Global Health
• Dr Naimatou Moussa, Health Worker, Senegal/Togo
• Mr Youri Djorkaeff, President of the FIFA Foundation
• Ms Stéphanie Seydoux, Ambassador for Global Health, France

"If we have any hope of achieving a healthier, safer, fairer future, every Member State must protect and invest in its health and care workforce as a matter of urgency." -Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus