WomenLift Health East Africa Signature Leadership Journey for Women In East & Central Africa 2023

Our Leadership Journeys are 12-month, fully-funded programs for participants to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, build an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, learn and practice tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches. Both Journeys impart contextualized tools & frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.  

Our Signature Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.

are only 4 rules for the Leadership Project: 

• It should focus on improving outcomes at the intersection of health and gender equality, or take a gendered lens on a global health issue
• It should leverage your leadership skills
• It should be within your scope of control or influence, but also stretch you beyond your day-to-day work requirements
• You should be passionate about it

Leadership Projects fit into one of four themes:

• Centering women and girls in health
• Catalyzing institutional change
• Optimizing pathways to leadership
• Building integrated & resilient health systems

Your Leadership Project could accomplish one or more of the following, but is not limited to:

• Answering a research question 
• Promoting health or gender education in a particular group
• Developing a new or better technology
• Innovating a better way to collect/analyze/use health/gender data
• Improving a gender or health-related process/system in your organization
• Empowering or enabling women in your community or organization to be successful
• Incorporating a gendered lens into a policy, practice or research project where it was absent

• Table of Content
• About WomenLift Health
• East Africa Signature Leadership Journey
• Aim and Benefits of East Africa Signature Leadership Journey
• Requirements for East Africa Signature Leadership Journey Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About WomenLift Health

Achieving today’s complex global health goals requires greater and more diverse leadership talent across sectors and countries. And yet women are an untapped talent pool, representing 70% of the health workforce but only 25% of executive positions and 5% of CEO-level positions.  WomenLift Health will work with partners around the world to accelerate the advancement of talented women into senior leadership by investing in mid-career women and influencing the environments in which they live and work.  WomenLift Health is about action – action taken by women, men, organizati... continue reading

East Africa Signature Leadership Journey

Aim and Benefits of East Africa Signature Leadership Journey

Free (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered)

Requirements for East Africa Signature Leadership Journey Qualification

You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:   

• Identify as a woman  Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in your country of residence or East Africa regional level and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)  Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health Reside and work within Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan or Tanzania  Must be a national of one of the five countries  Possess fluency and ease in written and verbal communication in English to express the next level of emotional processing required for the Journey 

We require participants to be living in the Central Africa (CAT) or East Africa (EAT) time zones for at least 75% of the program as we believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions. WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds. 

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Apply here by October 6, 2023, by 11:59pm in your time zone. 

Access our Application FAQ here. If you have questions about the application, please email [email protected]. 

For more details, visit WomenLift Health website.