Event

Commission on the Status of Women side-event: NCDs, UHC, and Empowering Women

Ahead of the first UN High-Level Meeting on universal health coverage, this side event in the margins of CSW63 provides an opportunity to highlight how access to a broad range of public services, sustainable infrastructure, and social protection schemes can help achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, with a focus on non-communicable diseases, injuries and universal health coverage as a means of reducing inequalities and empowering women and girls. The George Institute is co-sponsoring this event alongside the Permanent Mission of Uruguay, the Permanent Mission of Thailand, the World Health Organization, NCD Alliance, and the Women & NCDs Taskforce.

Moderator:

  • Ms Soon-­Young Yoon, Chair of the Board, Women’s Environment and Development Organization and UN representative for the International Alliance of Women

Panellists: 

  • H.E. Ambassador Supark Prongthura, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Mission of Thailand  
  • H.E. Ambassador Luis Bermúdez, Chargé d’Affaires a.i., Permanent Mission of Uruguay
  • Dr Nata Menabde, Executive Director, WHO Office at the UN 
  • Ms Priya Kanayson, Senior Advocacy Officer, NCD Alliance 
  • Ms Toni Habinshuti, Managing Director, Partners in Health Rwanda
  • Professor Robyn Norton, Principal Director, The George Institute
  • Ms Gemma May, International Advocacy Adviser, Royal National Lifeboat Institution

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