Episode 243: Post Pandemic Women’s Empowerment with Bisi Bright

Greetings Glocal Citizens! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been learning more and more about the Women of Africa Post-Pandemic Empowerment and Advocacy Programme with guests from Egypt to Scotland to Nigeria with a range of business, health and well-being perspectives. This week we’re back in Nigeria with the women that started it all, Glocal Citizen, Adebisi Bright (https://glocalcitizens.fireside.fm/guests/adebisi-bright). Dr. Bisi Bright is an international award-winning scientist, social entrepreneur, health systems researcher, adjunct lecturer, consultant clinical pharmacist, and public health manager. She is 1st Vice Chairman and CEO of LiveWell Initiative LWI, a self-sustaining nonprofit healthcare social enterprise, which has impacted over two million Nigerians and thousands of Ghanaians with health literacy, improved overall health, and wellness. She is the brain behind the Post-pandemic Womens' Empowerment Programme of Africa which is a Gilead-Sciences, Inc. USA-supported regional program empowering all women in Africa and visiting ten nations with a goal of empowering all the Women of Africa in the post-pandemic era and to equip them tools for mental health and resilience. When we last spoke with Bisi, it was during the pandemic and we got to know how LWI was doing it’s part to equip communities with necessary health supports. In this conversation you’ll learn about the impressive strides the Bisi and her colleagues have made in services and in innovation all while continuing to live well! Where to find Bisi and more information about the PPWA program? www.livewellng.org (https://www.livewellng.org) On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bisi-bright-33a22b23/) What’s Bisi cooking? Jollof rice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollof_rice) Ogbono soup (https://allnigerianfoods.com/nigerian-ogbono-soup/) Other topics of interest: Global Public Health University (https://gphuniversity.org) Health Technology Assessment (https://www.who.int/teams/health-product-policy-and-standards/assistive-and-medical-technology/medical-devices/assessment) About Value-based Healthcare (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7185050/) International Alliance of Patient’s Organizations (https://www.iapo.org.uk) More about Block Chain technology in healthcare (https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-healthcare-applications-companies#:~:text=Blockchain%20has%20many%20uses%20in,for%20clinical%20research%20and%20development.) Special Guest: Adebisi Bright.