Author: Vineeta Gupta

Vineeta Gupta, MD, J.D., LL.M, is a global health expert, trained physician and human rights lawyer, and a passionate advocate for health equity and south-north partnerships. She is director secretariat at ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership. As a leading global health expert and human rights advocate, Gupta has conducted workshops on diversity, inclusion and health disparities and has been invited to speak in over 60 universities in the U.S. and Europe. She is widely covered in print and online media globally, including in the Washington Post, The Economic Times, The Hindu, Times of India, China Daily, NPR, U.S. News and World Report, Fox News and CNN.

I’m a Maternal Health Physician. The U.S.’s Maternal Death Rate Is Shameful.

The estimated U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2018 was 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, putting the United States dead last compared to similarly wealthy countries.

Protecting and expanding access to abortion care and taking steps to support pregnant women and families such as through child tax credits will help reduce the maternal mortality rate and catch the U.S. up to the standards of other countries.

In a World Increasingly Defined By Crises, We Need Women’s Leadership Like Never Before

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Three trends characterized women’s leadership in the pandemic response: effective leadership, rapid response and socially inclusive policies.

In a future being shaped increasingly by climate change, the collapse of liberal democracies, growing inequality, pandemics and now a war in Eastern Europe, what’s needed more than ever are leaders with empathy backed up by serious attention to the needs of the most vulnerable—ones that can bring people together, in solidarity, during times of hardship and craft a set of socially inclusive policies that capture the complex and myriad impacts of crises.  We need not just more women, including diverse women leaders at the top but also more male leaders embracing the qualities that women leaders have exemplified throughout the pandemic. Nothing less than our future depends on it.