Dr Roopa Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practising Internal Medicine physician. Dr Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard.

Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health in 2015. It was registered as a federal non-profit organization 501(c)(3) in the USA in 2017 to achieve gender equality in global health leadership. Today, Women in Global Health has more than 25 000 supporters in more than 90 countries and continues to grow. Dr Dhatt leads a staff of two, supported by 30 volunteers focused on supporting a diverse group of emerging women leaders, engaging global health executives to transform their own institutions, and growing the Women in Global Health movement. With more than 14 chapters on four continents, Women in Global Health is changing the conversation about women’s leadership in health at global, national and local levels. It is a large network of volunteers, fellows, advisers, coordinators and assistants, all virtually based in Asia, Africa, America, the Middle East, Europe and Australasia. National Women in Global Health chapters have been established in Germany, USA, Norway, Sweden, East Africa, Pakistan, Portugal and Somalia, with India, West Africa, Australia, Ireland and the UK in development.