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The Wellbeing Foundation Africa Davos Delegation was honoured to join Kearney, FemTechnology, and senior executives from established global organisations to support an open letter highlighting the gender inequity in healthcare. Redesigning healthcare with women in mind: an open letter supports the World Economic Forum Global Alliance for Women’s Health, a newly formed community to convene and connect on next steps, in which The Wellbeing Foundation Africa is has submitted commitments to, to prioritise, protect, and promote the health of women and closing the women’s health gap.
A huge undertaking, this letter is addressed to all those within the healthcare ecosystem whose innovations have impact and decisions have power: from pharma, biotech, and medtech firms to investors, tech companies, and consumer health players serving women and girls. The parity can only be achieved with the involvement of players across the entire healthcare value chain, and with collaborative support, we hope to make this 2024 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting the start of our journey together toward a new global healthcare system that serves women better.
Through shaping the public health agenda with increased advocacy and awareness, overhauling medical education by expanding both national school and higher education curriculums, raising the stakes on research and development by increasing the volume of clinical and policy research trials on women’s health conditions, building women-centric integrated care pathways that are accessible and easy to navigate, covering all patient touchpoints and providing women with more control over their own health, getting serious about data by ensuring gender-specific data sets are collected, accelerating investment by boosting funding for academic research development, we can make the necessary and long overdue change needed.
Together, let us Rethink what equitable healthcare means, Resync all stakeholders around this new mission and Regenerate healthcare systems to root equity at their core.
From Davos, Switzerland at the 54th Annual World Economic Forum, reported by Zelia Bukhari (Global Health Advocacy and Policy Manager, Global Davos Delegation, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa).
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