Vivianne Ihekweazu

Managing Director

Nigeria Health Watch

Vivianne Ihekweazu is the Managing Director of Nigeria Health Watch, a health communication and advocacy organization based in Nigeria, advocating for improved access to health services. Her work currently focuses on nutrition, maternal newborn and child health, routine immunization, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and health security. She is an African Public Health Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Universal Health at Chatham House and has an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria), an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, and a BA (Hons) in Economics & Business Administration.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

19 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
02:30 pm EEST	04:00 pm EEST	Taking Action to Close the Gender Nutrition Gap Concurrent Room MH 1-1	Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to Read More Nutrition is a feminist issue. Women and girls bear the brunt of global malnutrition. Gender inequalities underlie why women and girls experience inadequate access to nutritious diets, nutrition services and poor practices. This session calls for urgent collective action to close the gender nutrition gap. It will showcase the latest evidence on women’s and girls’ nutrition from UNICEF’s flagship report, Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women, and experiences from inspiring leaders and advocates, and launch a global co-created Action Agenda and campaign that calls for bold gender transformative actions to improve women’s and girls’ nutrition. Session format: Thought Leadership Organized by FHI 360, UNICEF, African Leaders for Nutrition, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EngenderHealth, Micronutrient Forum, Nigeria Health Watch, Youth Advocate Read Less Speakers Rania Dagash-Kamara Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa UNICEF Saskia Osendarp Executive Director Micronutrient Forum Pauline Theresa Mapfumo Youth Advocate European Union Delegation (team Zimbabwe) Youth Sounding Board. Vivianne Ihekweazu Managing Director Nigeria Health Watch Ajay Khera Country Representative, India EngenderHealth Anita Zaidi President Gender Equality Division The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation