Women make up most of the global health workforce yet occupy less than a quarter of the most influential leadership positions. Rachel Nugent, Vice President of Global Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) at RTI International based in Washington DC, USA, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA is one of those rare few. She's calling for a sea change in the way we finance efforts to control and manage NCDs. “The investment case has been out there for other areas of global health—for vaccines, child and maternal health, HIV/AIDS.
Original Article: [Perspectives] Rachel Nugent: global health economist making NCDs count