Podcast: All About Unlocking Eve – The Initiative Advancing Women In Healthcare Leadership

In Vivo sat down with Eva McLellan and Kaye Vitug to discuss Unlocking Eve, an initiative to bring more women into positions of healthcare leadership

In Vivo's Chloe Kent discussed the future of women in healthcare leadership with Roche executives and Unlocking Eve founders Eva McLellan and Kaye Vitug.

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Self-described as a "movement for transformational change", Unlocking Eve is an initiative which focuses on elevating women in leadership and decision-making roles throughout the healthcare space. Founded by senior Roche Holding AG executives Eva McLellan and Kaye Vitug, the organization recently hosted its debut panel event at the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos.

In Vivo reporter Chloe Kent sat down with the founders to discuss why women are so underrepresented healthcare leadership, and what employers and the industry

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