Amina Jama Mahmud

mina is the founder of Women in Global Health Somalia chapter. She currently works as a Project Director at Save the Children International, Somalia country office in Nairobi. As a returning diaspora from Sweden, she has chosen to utilise her experiences, skills and...

Guled Salah Barre

Mr Guled Salah Barre is the Co-founder and the Executive Director of the Somali Institute for Development and Research Analysis (SIDRA). Before SIDRA, he was a Minister at the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism of the government of Puntland State of...

Dr. Maryan Qasim

Dr. Maryan Qasim is a medical doctor, a humanitarian and a politician. She worked as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist as well as a University lecturer and a community activist in Somalia, Yemen, the Netherlands and Great Britain for more than 30 years. She served as...

Zainab M. Hassan

Zainab M. Hassan is a poet, and human rights, gender equity, and social andenvironmental justice activist. She is the Founder & Chairwoman of Somali Gender EquityMovement (SGEM), a global movement that advocates for and promotes women’s socialand economic justice,...

Birgitta Essén

Birgitta Essén is Professor in International Maternal and Reproductive Health atUppsala University , Sweden. She is a Senior Consultant in Obstetric andGynaecology at the University Hospital of Uppsala where she is running a clinicespecially for immigrant women. Her...

Roopa Dhatt

Roopa Dhatt is physician by training and an advocate by principle, striving for greater gender equity, health and well-being for all people through working in global health. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Women in Global Health, an organization that...