Mwanamkasi Hassan started her work as a community health worker in Kilifi County, Kenya with a simple conviction. "I started this work with a clean heart," she says. "I serve the community wholeheartedly."
Past Tinamoi and through Mikuu, Sheila Chepkoi walks with her youngest child on her back and worry in her chest. From her home in Baringo County, in Kenya's Rift Valley, the nearest health facility is hours away on foot, and she has no money for transport. She walks because she knows what a missed vaccine can cost her child.
Read more about our event, “The Future of Global Health Advocacy" that was held alongside the UN General Assembly last month. The event featured global health experts to discuss why strong policies and public investment in health systems are essential to improving health at scale.
On February 2, 2022, GHAI hosted the first episode of Advocacy in Action— our newest series of conversations taking listeners behind the scenes of campaigns that save lives— via Twitter Spaces. Mena El-Turky introduced the conversation between GHAI Communications Director Jennifer Patterson and GHAI’s new Senior Vice President, Lucy Martinez Sullivan, about the power of advocacy.
On November 4, 2021, GHAI celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and heard from GHAI’s global team and national partners how our mission grew from the successes and lessons learned from the global tobacco control movement — and where we go from here.
On August 31, 2021, GHAI hosted a Twitter Spaces conversation with an exploration of “locally led advocacy” — what it means, why it’s important, how to do it, and how to do it better and addressed a number of questions confronting the global health community.
On May 25, 2021, GHAI hosted a conversation about how advocates can advance effective public health policies in a world disrupted by COVID-19—disruptions that underscore the urgency of health advocacy even while making some traditional advocacy activities more difficult. This event was held alongside the 74th World Health Assembly.
On September 22, 2020, during the 75th U.N. General Assembly, GHAI convened representatives from across government, civil society and philanthropy to discuss the journey to health program sustainability and explored how international donors and local leadership can work together to plan, design and advocate for public health initiatives for sustainability from the beginning.
We work to secure social and political will for equitable and sustainable financing for immunization.
