As a Champion of the World Economic Forum Global Alliance for Women’s Health, I was honoured to join fellow Champions yesterday at the WEF Headquarters in Geneva on the margins of the WHO 79th World Health Assembly, convening with senior leaders from across healthcare, life sciences, technology, policy and civil society at the Annual Health Roundtable 2026 to define how the Alliance translates growing global momentum on women’s health into coordinated, measurable impact by 2030.

The session was anchored by two landmark publications released this week, the Care Delivery Roadmap, developed with the McKinsey Health Institute, which establishes that care delivery failures account for 34% of the women’s health gap and that closing them represents a structural investment opportunity generating a 3 to 6 times return, and the Women’s Health Innovation Radar, developed with Kearney, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Leap, which maps the science-to-patient journey across ten high-impact conditions, bringing new transparency to where innovation is advancing and where critical gaps persist.

As a voice for African women’s health within the Alliance, I am committed to ensuring that the evidence base, the policy asks and the financing recommendations that emerge from these conversations are grounded in the realities of African health systems, where the women’s health gap is most acute and where the returns on closing it are greatest.

 

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