Dr. Zahra Zeinali
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Dr. Zahra Zeinali
@zr-z.bsky.social
MD MPH DrGH (c) - Dept of Global Health at U of Washington • Health systems & policy, equity, SDoH, gender & intersectionality • PLOS GPH & BMJ Public Health editorial board • Formerly at Johns Hopkins SPH, IFMSA, GH50/50
You can find @gh5050.bsky.social 's Resources for tackling power and privilege in the workplace here: globalhealth5050.org/2021-report/...

You can read more of my writing on "Women in Health Systems Leadership: Demystifying the Labyrinth" here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Women in Health Systems Leadership: Demystifying the Labyrinth
Leadership in health systems is the focus of the chapter by Zahra Zeinali, more specifically at the national level where policy making and priority setting happen, the subnational level where policy i...
link.springer.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Other systems-level interventions that work for women's leadership are mentorship, sponsorship, training. Quotas and #DEI policies need to be complmented by these interventions and other ways of investing in a PIPELINE for WOMEN LEADERS in POLITICS.
March 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
However, ambassador Delphine O highlighted France's systematic approach to #GenderEquality through laws that require at least 40% women in board & Exec teams of public and private sector. MFA France has seen an increase from 12% to > 46% in women ambassadors & leaders since this law.
March 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As a younger editorial board member of peer reviewed journals, I truly appreciated this opinion piece by @jocalynclark.bsky.social & @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
www.bmj.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"If anything is forbidden now, it is that medical and
science journals, whose duty is to stand for integrity
and equity, should bow to political or ideological
censorship."
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
www.bmj.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM