Schedule - Women Deliver 2019 Global Conference

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Sunday 2 June
Monday 3 June
Tuesday 4 June
Wednesday 5 June
Thursday 6 June

Plenary Concurrent Film Power Stage Side Event Youth Zone Special Event Pre-Con Workshop

Wednesday 5 June

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Let’s Talk About Power: Structural Gender Inequalities and Gender-Based Violence

Speakers

Preston Mitchum

Organization: Advocates for Youth

Preston Mitchum

Preston is a Black queer advocate and activist with over five years of legal and policy experience in his role as Senior Legal & International Policy Analyst at Advocates for Youth. At Advocates, he supports both Policy and International Youth Health and Rights Divisions on the global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) portfolio, and is a Board Member of the MenEngage Alliance. In addition to his work at Advocates, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center teaching LGBT Health Law and Policy. He is the first openly LGBTQ Division Chair of the Washington Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (WBA YLD). Prior to joining Advocates, Preston served as the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) where he provided in-depth analysis of new data, policies, and programs across SRHR.

Ambassador Deborah Birx

Organization: U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator & U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy

Ambassador Deborah Birx

Deborah L. Birx, M.D., is the Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS and U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy. Ambassador Birx is a world-renowned medical expert and leader in the field of HIV/AIDS. Her three-decade-long career has focused on HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health. As the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Birx oversees the implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the largest commitment by any nation to combat a single disease in history, as well as all U.S. Government engagement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Serving as the U.S. Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, she aligns the U.S. Government’s diplomacy with foreign assistance programs that address global health challenges and accelerate progress toward: achieving an AIDS-free generation; ending preventable child and maternal deaths; and preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats.

Patrick Mwesigye

Organization: Uganda Youth and Adolescent Health Forum (UYAHF)

Patrick Mwesigye

Patrick is the founder and team leader at the Uganda youth and Adolescents Health Forum a grassroots youth led and youth serving organizations that works towards empowering marginalized and vulnerable adolescent girls and young women to live quality lives with equity and dignity and support them with opportunities to realize their full potential through addressing their health, gender equality and livelihood needs. Patrick is a very passionate and dynamic young man from Uganda who has championed gender equality reproductive rights for girls and has strongly worked with both local communities in Uganda and the Uganda government to advocate for prioritise these rights.

Rasha Jarhum

Organization: WILPF

Rasha Jarhum

Rasha Jarhum is a South Yemeni Senior Development Policy Advisor and Expert on Women, Peace, and Security. Jarhum has been working in the humanitarian and development fields, and advocating for Human Rights including women and refugees rights for over 15 years. She is also a civil society activist and development campaigner. Jarhum is a recipient of the Women Have Wings award.

Erin Kenny

Organization: UN Women

Erin Kenny

Ms. Erin Kenny (MPH) is the Head of the Technical Unit and Senior Adviser to the United Nations-European Union Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls. In this role she provides technical oversight to a 500 million Euro portfolio of programmes worldwide. Prior to assuming her current position, Erin was a team leader in UNFPA’s Humanitarian Division, overseeing their work on addressing GBV in emergencies. Before joining the UN, Erin worked with the International Rescue Committee, Child Fund International, EngenderHealth, Save the Children, the Women’s Refugee Commission, and the Open Society Foundations.

Geetanjali Misra

Organization: CREA

Geetanjali Misra

Geetanjali Misra is the co-founder and executive director of CREA. Geeta has worked at the activist, grant-making, and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights, and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was program officer sexuality and reproductive health for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and supported nongovernmental organizations in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka working on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She also co-founded SAKHI for South Asian Women in New York in 1989, a nonprofit organisation in New York, committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 211, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Preston Mitchum; Ambassador Deborah Birx; Patrick Mwesigye; Rasha Jarhum; Erin Kenny; Geetanjali Misra

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Let’s Talk About Power: Structural Gender Inequalities and Gender-Based Violence

Organized by: Men Engage, UNFPA, Spotlight Initiative, Together for Girls

Gender-based violence (GBV) emerges from unequal power relations and is normalized under a patriarchal system of oppression in which girls and women are treated as having lower status than boys and men. Through intergenerational and gendered dialogue, panelists will share strategies to tackle GBV and engage men as allies. Participants will learn how to contribute to long-term prevention of GBV by addressing its root causes at individual, community, and state levels.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Speakers

Jemie Shrestha

Organization: White Ribbon Alliance

Jemie Shrestha

Jemie Shrestha is a Youth Advocate with White Ribbon Alliance Nepal. Ms. Shrestha is a passionate advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, focused on improving access to services and education for girls. She has effectively used health education and the promotion of self-care principles and practices to challenge misinformation, cultural taboos and often deadly rituals around menstruation. She is an experienced speaker and advocate, having previously spoken at the World Health Assembly and multiple local and national forums. Ms. Shrestha is currently studying for her degree in Social Work from St. Xavier’s College.

Martha Brady

Organization: PATH

Martha Brady

Martha Brady is Director, Sexual and Reproductive Health at PATH. She leads a global program aimed at improving the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls, including research and programming on reproductive health literacy, SRHR-HIV linkages, and women’s self-care products and practices. For more than two decades, Ms. Brady has worked with diverse partners to design and evaluate health, education, and sports programs for women and girls, including authorship of numerous peer-reviewed articles and publications. She was previously Senior Associate at the Population Council. Ms. Brady holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University.

Chiwawa Nkhoma

Organization: PSI

Chiwawa Nkhoma

Chiwawa Nkhoma is Deputy Country Representative and Head of HIV at PSI Malawi. In her 10 years with Population Services International (PSI), she has initiated and implemented wide-ranging HIV service delivery programs, including HIV self-testing. Ms. Nhkoma is actively engaged in self-care policy, successfully working with the Government of Malawi to improve access to self-care options. Prior to PSI, she spent eight years managing clinical trials research on microbicides. Ms. Nhkoma holds a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s in science and bachelor’s from the University of Malawi.

Manjulaa Narasimhan

Organization: World Health Organisation (WHO)

Manjulaa Narasimhan

Manjulaa Narasimhan is a scientist in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO, leading the development and implementation of the WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-care Interventions for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). She also coordinates advocacy, research, policy and programmatic linkages between SRHR and HIV interventions, and co-convenes the interagency working group on SRHR/HIV linkages.

Miles Kemplay

Organization: Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Miles Kemplay

Miles Kemplay is Executive Director, Adolescence, having led CIFF's work on adolescent sexual and reproductive health as Director since 2016. He joined CIFF in 2012 following six years with Marie Stopes International and more than a decade working for global health, development and private sector organizations. Miles was previously Director for Business Development at MSI London, after leading the MSI program in Madagascar. Before MSI, Miles managed neglected tropical disease programs in Sudan, West Darfur and Liberia. Miles received his M.Sc. in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and an undergraduate degree from the University of London.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 217-219, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Jemie Shrestha; Martha Brady; Chiwawa Nkhoma; Manjulaa Narasimhan; Miles Kemplay

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Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Organized By: FHI 360, Path, Philips, PSI

Women have long managed their own health and the health of their families – including menstruation, contraception, and pregnancy – through self-care. And despite the gender bias in most health research, research shows that when people are active participants in their own healthcare, adherence to medication and treatment regimens improve. In this session, learn how including women in clinical research and trials, product development, and direct marketing can lead to innovations in self-care, and make better health more accessible to girls and women.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

Speakers

Aisha Ijaz

Organization: Aahung

Aisha Ijaz

Aisha Ijaz has been working at Aahung since 2008, and is currently the Senior Program Manager where she oversees the entire team in the development and management of all programs and projects. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Tufts University, and a MSc. in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Aisha has over thirteen years experience in NGO programming on intimate partner violence in the USA, and SRHR in Pakistan. Her areas of interest and expertise include developing and managing SRHR programs for young people, and closely advocating with the various provincial Education Departments in Pakistan for the integration of CSE in their education curricula.

Aminata Wurie

Organization: Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (YCSRR)

Aminata Wurie

Aminata has been a strong advocate for gender mainstreaming in policies and programming since 2014, when she returned to Sierra Leone to join the frontline of the Ebola response. She worked for the largest Social Mobilization Action Consortium in the region, developing various community behavioural change campaigns. She co-founded the Survivor Dream Project focused on providing support (psycho-social, entrepreneurial and educational) to female Ebola survivors and conducting empirical research on sustainable community recovery efforts targeting women and youth. Before that, she worked with various organizations in Canada using the arts and innovative approaches to engage youth on gender, sexuality education and HIV/AIDS issues.

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson

Organization: Ministry of Education, Youth and Information

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson

Anna-Kay Magnus Watson is the National Coordinator for Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) and HIV/AIDS in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Jamaica. During her 7 year tenure she has coordinated the development of the life-skills based HFLE curricula for both primary and secondary school levels. She has conducted numerous trainings of teachers in life skills education and has led the development of training resources to support classroom delivery. Mrs. Magnus Watson holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master’s Degree in Public Health, specializing in Health Promotion from Florida International University.

Monica Geingos

Organization: First Lady of Namibia

Monica Geingos

Monica Geingos founded the #BeFree in 2016 as a youth-driven programme facilitating a non-judgemental platform for adolescents and young adults to engage on challenges they face. The movement also integrates access to information and services. As the UNAIDS Special Advocate for Young Women and Adolescent Girls she champions the Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free Agenda. The First Lady works to capacitate community-based grassroots to lead the fight against HIV in their communities. In acknowledgement of her efforts, Madame Geingos was awarded the 2018 World without AIDS Award.

Joanna Herat

Organization: UNESCO

Joanna Herat

Joanna Herat is a Senior Programme Specialist on Health and Education at UNESCO (Paris), providing technical leadership and policy support for education sector responses to improve health and well-being. Her areas of technical leadership are HIV prevention, comprehensive sexuality education, school-related gender-based violence, early and unintended pregnancy and gender equality. Before joining UNESCO, Joanna worked with civil society at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance supporting community-based HIV interventions in Africa and Asia. She started her career teaching and managing theatre for HIV education in Tanzania and Cameroon. Joanna has a Master’s degree in Anthropology of Development from the University of London.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 118, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: Aisha Ijaz; Aminata Wurie; Anna-Kay Magnus Watson; Monica Geingos; Joanna Herat

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Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

Organized by: Global Partnership for Education, NORAD, PLAN International, UNESCO

When young people have access to good quality comprehensive sexuality education, and have family and community support to manage their sexual and reproductive health, they stay in school longer. This session will explore how we can break down the barriers that prevent girls from receiving this essential aspect of education. Participants will learn how innovative partnerships can deliver comprehensive sexuality education that meets young people’s needs.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

A Global Health Tsunami: Non-Communicable Diseases

Speakers

HRH Princess Dina Mired

Organization: Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

HRH Princess Dina Mired

HRH Princess Dina Mired, is a mother of a cancer survivor and is a well-known and respected advocate for Cancer Control and Non-Communicable Diseases. HRH Princess Dina was elected as President of the Union International for Cancer Control (UICC) in 2018-the largest cancer fighting organization. Testament to her outstanding leadership, she was the first Arab to have been elected in in such a prestigious global post. HRH Princess Dina established and led the King Hussein Cancer Foundation (KHCF) from 2002 till June 2016. Princess Dina transformed the non-profit into the most successful fundraiser for cancer control efforts in Jordan and an internationally known brand and leader not only in Jordan but also in the global movement for people affected by cancer. KHCF work focuses on fundraising and development, global advocacy, public awareness about early detection and prevention, cancer coverage, and patient support. Globally, Princess Dina is a well-known and respected advocate for Cancer Control and Non-Communicable Diseases.

Miga Chultem

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

Miga Chultem

Miga Chultem began her professional career in international development, and worked with the United Nations Population Fund in Mongolia for five years. In her current position, she engages in complex issues related to international regulatory cooperation and provides strategic advice to senior management. She joined Health Canada in 2004, focusing on gender equality and women's health issues. Since 2006, Miga has worked on regulatory cooperation with international partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). She truly believes in the possibility of improving the health of the world population by learning from the best practices of different countries.

Amy Little

Organization: Global Alzheimer’s and Dementia Action Alliance

Amy Little

Amy Little leads the Alzheimer’s Society’s international advocacy and is based in London. Graduating from the University of Manchester in 2001 she initially worked in non-profit social research before developing a career as a civil society campaigner. Amy has driven global and national campaigns, working with iNGOs, the UN and governments. She has campaign-managed NGO coalitions including the Global Alzheimer’s & Dementia Action Alliance (GADAA) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines & Cluster Munition Coalition. Through GADAA’s work, Amy has led work to recognise dementia as a global women’s health and rights issue that cannot be ignored.

Dr. Veronica Magar

Organization: World Health Organization

Dr. Veronica Magar

Veronica Magar (Dr. Ph, MPH, MA) leads WHO’s work on Gender, Equity and Human Rights (GER). She heads an organization-wide mainstreaming initiative to ensure a coherent, systematic and sustainable approach for integrating these critical dimensions across WHO’s technical programmes at the headquarters, regional offices and country level. To support member states with implementation of the GER Criteria, WHO offers a country package, training and support to build capacity supported by her team. Since 2000, she has worked with UN agencies, NGOs, and governments in more than 30 countries across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to address gender inequality and human rights. Prior to that Dr. Magar worked at international NGOs including CARE where she led work on gender mainstreaming, violence against women, research and community-based evaluations. Dr Magar earned her MPH and MA at UCLA and DR PH the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dr. Hema Divakar

Organization: FIGO

Dr. Hema Divakar

Dr. Hema Divakar is a leading medical professional of India with a vision to improve the healthcare services ecosystem for the welfare of women. She has over the last three decades, been a game changer in healthcare, establishing new benchmarks, standards and touching women’s lives in the process. An accomplished specialist in the field of OBGYN care, she is the medical director at the Divakars Specialty hospital in Bangalore, a centre of excellence for women’s healthcare and centre for Skill Enhancement. In the year 2013, she was the President of FOGSI Federation of Obstetric & Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI),with 32,000 specialists on roll as the members. She now holds an exhaustive list of important positions of great responsibility within India, as well as in Asia.

Bruno Carrattini

Organization: NCD Child

Bruno Carrattini

Bruno Carrattini is a young advocate from Uruguay, graduated as a nutritionist specializing in noncommunicable diseases and pursuing a master's degree in public health. Since he was a teenager, he has lived with an NCD and has dedicated all his efforts to helping other members of the community. He works in a nongovernmental organization as a professor and as an advocate, as well as in a hospital as a health professional. He has participated and created programs both nationally and internationally and has a great passion in the fight for health policies that achieve equality in all aspects related to health rights. He has been a mentor for many young people affected by NCDs in the country and in the region, as well as participating in different decision-making processes at the political level as a representative of the community. He is working on education for the affected population in rural areas, strategies and strategic alliances to achieve commitments for the care of the rural community that suffers NCDs and to respond their needs.

Karen Walker

Organization: The George Institute

Karen Walker

A/Professor Karen Walker is Program Manager for Global Women's Health at the George Institute for Global Health. She is clinical academic passionate about improving health outcomes for women across the lifespan through equitable access to universal health care, education, empowerment and mentorship. She combines her passion for women's health, advocacy and policy with her role as President-elect of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses where she focuses on improving globally maternal and neonatal survival. With more than 70 journal articles and book chapters, she is an invited national and international speaker with more than 100 national and international presentations.

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Concurrent

Date: Wednesday 5 June

Location: Room 306, Vancouver Convention Center

Hours: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm PST

Speakers: HRH Princess Dina Mired; Miga Chultem; Amy Little; Dr. Veronica Magar; Dr. Hema Divakar; Bruno Carrattini; Karen Walker

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A Global Health Tsunami: Non-Communicable Diseases

Organized by: HelpAge International, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, NCD Alliance

This session will explore the different aspects of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and chronic diseases such as cervical cancer, diabetes in pregnancy, and neurological conditions like dementia that are specific to, or experienced differently by, girls and women. Learn how addressing NCDs and their risk factors with a life course approach can significantly improve the health and wellbeing of girls and women of all ages, and what solutions innovative organizations are using to stem the tide.

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Wednesday 5 June

Let’s Talk About Power: Structural Gender Inequalities and Gender-Based Violence

Self-Care: The Next Frontier in Women’s Health

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Powerful Tool for Improving Girls’ Health, Education, and Gender Equality

A Global Health Tsunami: Non-Communicable Diseases

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