The fully funded, 12-month WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey is designed to provide talented mid-senior career women leaders in health with the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches. The program imparts contextualized tools and frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in global health face today.
Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed Health Leadership Project – all the while being supported by their Leadership Journey community and experts in the health sector.
Global Fellows – those who successfully complete the Leadership Journey – will be part of a lifelong network of allies at local, regional, and global levels who continue to support each other and new cohort members and advocate for women’s leadership.
Our Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid-senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.
At WomenLift Health, we work with a deep focus on inclusion, expressed through our approach, actions, values, internal processes, and our commitment to continuous learning. We believe that for leadership to be truly transformative, it must advocate for, give voice to, and represent women with diverse lived experiences. We encourage applications from minorities, historically marginalized, and underrepresented communities in the countries we serve (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Ethiopia).
The 2026 WomenLift Health East Africa Leadership Journey will include two simultaneous cohorts, reaching a total of 60 women leaders in health working in East Africa. Each cohort will comprise 30 women leaders, who will participate in both separate and joint events throughout the year.
Please see the journey calendars for the cohort schedules.
Program Duration: March 2026 – February 2027
Format: Hybrid (both virtual and in-person elements)
Cost: None (all program costs, including travel and lodging, are covered)
Effort: Approximately four to eight hours each month
Deadline: October 10, 2025, by 5:00PM EAT
