Application Deadline: December 31st, 2025.
Applications are now open for the 2026 WomenLift Health Nigeria Signature Leadership Journey Program. In this fully-funded, 12-month Leadership Journey, we provide mid-career women the safe space to explore their authentic leadership through vulnerability and reflection, an inclusive and diverse network which fosters a strong sense of belonging, tools and strategies for enhancing their voice, presence, and influence – all the while being supported by a powerful group of peers, mentors, and coaches.
The Leadership Journey is a transformational learning and development experience that brings together mid to senior career women working across multiple disciplines, fields, and sectors in health. This Journey is aimed at creating the mindset shift needed to solve complex challenges that we are facing in global public health today.
The program imparts contextualized tools and frameworks to address the individual, organizational, and societal challenges that women leaders in public and global health face today.
Participants engage in two in-person experiential learning residencies (Immersion and Lift-Off), in addition to virtual learning touchpoints, virtual group mentoring, virtual one-on-one coaching sessions, and importantly, a self-directed health leadership project.
Upon completion of the Leadership Journey, participants will become “Global Fellows”, who will be part of a lifelong network of allies at local, regional, and global levels who continue to support each other and new cohorts with their time, talent, and treasure, and to advocate for women’s leadership.
Program Dates
The 2026 Nigeria Leadership Journey will take place from May 2026- April 2027. Before applying, please check the dates and timing of the sessions to ensure that you would be able to attend all touchpoints. All touchpoints are mandatory to attend while the JourneyPLUS events are optional. The in-person residences involving travel include the 3-day Immersion (20-22 July, 2026) and the 2-day Lift-Off (20-21 April, 2027).
Eligibility Requirements
You are eligible for consideration if you meet all of the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
- Mid-Career Leader: Possess sufficient years (10 – 20 years) of experience in public health
- Reside and work within Nigeria
- Must be a national of Nigeria
- Participants must possess strong written and verbal English skills that go beyond basic or technical communication. This includes the ability to articulate emotions, participate in reflective dialogue, engage in complex interpersonal conversations, and integrate leadership development concepts throughout the Journey.
- We require participants to be living in the West Africa Standard Time for at least 75% of the program as we believe time zone compatibility is essential to your ability to participate at the touchpoints and to engage with your peers within and outside of the sessions. WomenLift Health is committed to selecting diverse cohort members, representing different sectors (public, private, academia, NGO, philanthropy, Research and development), disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.
Benefits
- All the leadership resources provided during the year as well as travel, lodging and food expenses for the in-person engagements are covered by WomenLift Health. However, the year long program does not pay for your time. You will be expected to have access to a computer and internet to attend the virtual touchpoints
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the WomenLift Health Nigeria Signature Leadership Journey Program.
