2023 North America Cohort

WomenLift Health has selected the emerging leaders below to participate in the fourth North America Cohort of the Leadership Journey, a fully-funded leadership initiative designed to support women through the challenges and opportunities of advancing to senior leadership positions in global health.

Amanda Marr Chung

Executive Director Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University

Ananya Tina Banerjee

Assistant Professor and Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Lead
McGill University

Brooke Cutler

Gender Equity and Global Health Consultant

Charity Oga-Omenka

Assistant Professor
University of Waterloo

Chioma Okafor

Senior Technical Advisor, Local Capacity Strengthening
Global Communities

Emily Nicholson

Health Specialist, Digital UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office

Emily Wroe

Director of NCD Programs, NCDI Poverty Network, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Senior Clinical Advisor, Partners In Health

Evonemo Esievoadje

Family Physician, Addictions Medicine Fellow, University of Toronto

Favorite Iradukunda

Assistant Professor
UMass Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing

Jess Jones

Director, Global Health Division
Chemonics

Joy Kamunyori

Senior Health Information Systems Advisor
USAID (Contractor)

Joyce Sepenoo

Senior Director, Health Equity and Rights
CARE International

Kate Clitheroe

Global Health Consultant

Lennie Kyomuhangi Bazira

Policy Director Community Health Impact Coalition

Maimunat Alex-Adeomi

Director of Global Training and Implementation
American Academy of Pediatrics

Mindy Scibilia

VP of Partnerships and Impact, Panther Life Sciences

Miriam Laufer

Associate Dean for Student Research, Director of the Malaria Research Program at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
University of Maryland