{"id":22357,"date":"2019-12-27T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=22357"},"modified":"2019-12-27T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T17:44:08","slug":"women-leaders-in-a-mans-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2019\/12\/27\/women-leaders-in-a-mans-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Leaders in a Man’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr.\u00a0Tsion\u00a0Firew is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health Faculty at Columbia University and she also serves as an advisor to the Minister of Health of Ethiopia on Strategic Partnership and Emergency Care.\u00a0\u00a0She is an advocate for the advancement of High-Quality Global Emergency Medicine and recently, under the Ministry of Health, Dr.\u00a0Tsion\u00a0Firew has led the efforts to the adoption of resolution on Emergency Medicine at the World Health Assembly in May of 2019, a big step forward for Global Emergency Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in Ethiopia Dr. Tsion Firew didn’t always see the gender inequity that we have in the United States. In her FIX19 talk “Women Leaders in a Man’s House” she shares here experience with female leadership that inspired her to become a leader in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch her complete FIX19 talk below!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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