WHO Global Health Challenge for Women to Participate in the WHO Fellowship 2018

The SESH (Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health) announces the women global health challenge, were you have to think and find a solution that can develop feasible ways to increase women's participation in the WHO/TDR fellowship, as over the past four years, one-quarter of all fellowship participants are women, because there are a wide range of concerns that  may discourage women from applying, including issues related to moving away from home, administrative issues related to going from a low-income country to a high-income country, and other obligations associated with caregiving. Your objective is to look for creative ideas like to making the research year more flexible or spur more women to apply. Individuals who submit exceptional ideas will be supported to join the Women Leaders in Global Health conference in London this November. But more importantly, selected ideas deemed feasible by WHO/TDR will be implemented to increase women’s participation in the fellowship. 

Submissions will be judged on a 1-10 scale according to the following three criteria:

[1] Capacity to increase the number of women who apply and receive WHO/TDR fellowships.

[2] feasibility.

[3] Innovation, defined as different from the current practice used in the fellowship. 

The competition is open to anyone from all around the globe. Ideas from women in low- and middle-income countries are particularly encouraged, but the challenge is not restricted to this group. All ideas will be evaluated without regard to the gender identity of the individual who submitted them, the review will be blinded so that judges do not know who submitted each one.

 At least three successful semi-finalists will be supported to join and present their idea at the Women Leaders in Global Health conference in London in November 2018. Selected finalists will have their idea implemented to increase women’s participation in this fellowship. The covered expenses are the registration fees, travel tickets, hotel or accommodation, in addition to a daily allowance.

About  SESH

 The SESH (Social Entrepreneurship to Spur Health) project is a partnership joining individuals from the Southern Medical University Dermatology Hospital and the University of North Carolina. The main objective of this project is to create more creative, equitable, and effective health services using crowdsourcing contests and other social entrepreneurship tools. Crowdsourcing is the process of having a group solve a problem and then sharing that solution widely with the public.