SHE & Rights LIVE #WD2026: Session 8: Gender sensitive local actions are critical for reducing NCDs and ending TB, tobacco use

SHE & Rights LIVE at the Women Deliver Conference 2026 - sessions are being hosted at D03 Exhibition Space in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia. All sessions are hybrid, live-streamed and host online and onsite speakers and participants including media.


Session-8: Gender sensitive local actions are critical for reducing NCDs and ending TB, tobacco use


28th April, 2pm Melbourne

Speakers:
  • Dr Tara Singh Bam, Board Director, Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT) and Asia Pacific Director (Tobacco Control), Vital Strategies and former Asia Pacific Director, The Union
  • Dr Ashish Shrestha, former National Professional Officer (TB), WHO Nepal, former Senior Technical Manager, National TB Program, Nepal (under Save the Children/Global Fund)
  • Lisbeth Aarup, Head of Project Development, Humana People To People India
  • Anish Pednekar, Chief Engineer, Kallows Engineering
  • Kalpana Acharya, Editor-in-Chief of Health TV Online, Nepal (host)

Please be welcome:
  • Onsite: D03 Exhibition Space, Women Deliver Conference, Narrm (Melbourne), Australia

CNS is the official media partner of Women Deliver Conference 2026.


Be welcome to meet onsite Shobha Shukla along with Kalpana Acharya (Editor-in-Chief of Health TV Online Nepal and Host, Health First Podcast), Jasper Davis and Saher Siddiqui.

This SHE & Rights LIVE session @ WD2026 is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI) and CNS with partners like Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT), Women Deliver Conference 2026, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health, Gender and Development Justice (APCAT Media) and Health TV Online Nepal.

Thanks

Team CNS and SHE & Rights