On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness against bias, and take action for gender equity.
In my broader field of global health, every aspect of the field is dominated by men, and lack of diversity is a real challenge for making progress. In my research area of tuberculosis, our recent analysis of all major global tuberculosis awards showed that individual awardees were most likely to be men based in high-income countries. Less than a quarter of individual winners were women.