Boost Member Rukaya Mumuni Honored at the 2023 Women Deliver Conference

Published on July 24, 2023

Rukaya Mumuni, a Boost member, was recently honored at the Women Deliver Conference as a Heroine of Health!

The Women Deliver Conference engages stakeholders from around the world to break barriers, address challenges, and identify opportunities to advance gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as improve the well-being of girls and women. The 2023 conference took place in Kigali, Rwanda from July 17-20 2023. Boost is proud to share that member Rukaya Mumuni was recently honored at the conference as a Heroine of Health by Women in Global Health, women-led movement demanding gender equity in global health. Please join us in congratulating Rukaya on this achievement! 

Rukaya Mumuni grew up in a village with low education rates among women and high rates of teenage pregnancy. Her dream of becoming a nurse seemed inaccessible to her. Despite this, Rukaya persevered through nursing school and earned her nursing certificate in 2006. Working as a clinical nurse inspired her to advance women's and children's health, especially advocating for improved care of children and pregnant women in hospitals. Meanwhile, she continued her studies, earning a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in nursing in 2017 and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in 2020. Currently, she is a Senior Nursing Officer/Public Health Officer working at the sub-national level of the Ghana Health Service. Her duties are focused on reproductive health and immunization services, family planning services, school health services, and community engagement. Lately, Rukaya has focused her work on the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and cervical cancer prevention. She promotes awareness of screening adolescents and women for cervical and breast cancer in communities and schools. She is also advocating for HPV vaccination to be integrated into routine immunization among adolescents in Ghana, despite the challenge of accessing the high-cost vaccine. In 2022, she won the Best Nurse by the Registered Nurses and Midwives Association in her district. In 2023, she won the Immunization Advocacy Champion award sponsored by Nursing Now Challenge and the Sabin Vaccine Institute. 

"I believe in empowering people to be health conscious through education and this I do through community engagement and participation activities."

-Rukaya Mumuni

 

Rukaya Engaging in HPV and Cervical Cancer Work

   

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Rukaya at the Women Deliver Conference 2023

   

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