Global health for women

Women make up half the world’s population – and gestate the other half. Marleen Temmerman spoke on efforts towards a world where all women, as well as men, have access to sexual and reproductive health information and services.

Marleen Temmerman, Aga Khan University

Marleen is a leading authority on women’s health, especially reproductive and violence issues. Despite many gender-barriers she studied gynecology and became Belgium's first female professor in OB/GYN. Marleen is currently chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aga Khan University (AKU) Hospital Nairobi, director of the Centre of Excellence in Women, Child and Adolescent Health, AKU East-Africa, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is a former senator in the Belgian parliament, founder of the International Centre for Reproductive Health, and former director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the WHO.