Global Meno Educa-Thon: Virtual Menopause Conference

TEKHI GLOBAL FOR MENOPAUSE HEALTH

World Menopause Day celebration 2026

The Global Meno Educa-thon

A 7-Day virtual Menopause & Women's Health Conference

October 10th - 17th 2026

"Raising Awareness on Menopause and other underserved areas of Women's health"

An initiative by TEKHI GLOBAL FOR MENOPAUSE HEALTH

The Global Meno Educa-thon 2026 is a 7-day global virtual learning and awareness movement dedicated to improving menopause & women's health education, understanding, and support across women, families, workplaces, and communities.

Led by TEKHI GLOBAL FOR MENOPAUSE HEALTH, this initiative brings together women & men everywhere, healthcare professionals, mental health experts, educators, advocates, and lived-experience voices to close the global menopause & women's health knowledge gap.

This movement is designed to make menopause & other underserved areas of women's health education:

Accessible
Inclusive
Evidence-based
Community-centered

Menopause remains one of the most under-discussed and misunderstood stages of a woman’s life.

Across many communities, women experience symptoms in silence due to:

Lack of accurate information
Cultural stigma
Limited access to care
Workplace misunderstanding

The Global Meno Educa-thon 2026 aims to change this narrative through open education and global conversation.

Over 7 days, participants will engage in:

✔️ Expert-led educational talks

✔️ Real-life lived experience stories

✔️ Community dialogue sessions

✔️ Mental health and wellbeing discussions

✔️ Workplace and policy conversations

✔️ Global interactive sessions

This event is open to:

Women & men of all ages
Healthcare professionals
Mental health practitioners
Employers and HR leaders
Community organizations
Educators and advocates
General public

This Event is

Fully virtual (zoom)
Global accessibility
Interactive sessions
Live expert discussions
Community engagement focus

Speakers & Contributors

Lived experience advocacy
Community voices
Menopause advocates & women's health
Workplace health and policy
Community health education
Menopause HCPs
Researchers
Gynaecology experts
Mental health and wellbeing
Sexual and reproductive health

Call for Speakers

If you are an advocate, lived-experience voice, healthcare professional, researcher, in menopause or women’s health, we welcome your volunteered participation.To express interest as a speaker, click on "apply to speak" button below.

Please share your proposedpresentation topic and expected community impact.

There would be 4-5 speakers each day from diverse bachgrounds & fields.

Each speaker will be assigned a 15 mins -20 mins session.

Deadline for speaker application is August 5th 2026 at 11:59 pm WAT

Call for Partners

We are also seeking partnerships with women groups, companies & organizations passionate about women's health, health organizations, NGOs, Academic institutions, Workplace, wellness programs, Media partners. Together, we can expand global menopause awareness and education. Click on "Download Partnership File " button below.

Join the Movement

Menopause is not a mystery. It is a life stage we must understand together. Be part of a global conversation that is changing how the world sees menopause.

Registration for attendance

This virtual conference is free but registration is mandatory. Only registered members will be admitted into the event daily. Event Updates will be sent to you by email.

Meet The Speakers

Join Community

Apply to speak

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20+ Speakers From Across The Globe

Troy Robbin Hailparn, M.D., FACOG, FICS, FAACS, based in the USA, is the founder of the Cosmetic Gynecology Center of San Antonio and one of America's most experienced cosmetic gynecologic surgeons. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology since 1998, her practice focuses exclusively on vulvovaginal and intimate health, including the changes women experience through and after menopause. She has performed more than 9,000 procedures — including over 6,000 vaginal rejuvenation surgeries and 1,000 labiaplasties — across three decades of clinical work.

In 2015, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists invited Dr. Hailparn to author the first-ever and only ACOG labiaplasty e-module, used to educate physicians worldwide. She is the author of Beneath Your Pink Perfect, now in its second edition. She has presented at the FIGO World Congress in Rome, COGI in Paris and Hainan, the 1st World Congress of Reconstructive and Cosmetic Gynecology in New Delhi, the ICS Annual Meeting, and TEDxSanAntonio, and her work has been featured by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Times of London.

Dr. Linda Bing PhD, CDE, CRS | CEO Turning Point Leadership Group, LLC is a Hormonal Health & Performance Strategist based in the USA , with more than 25 years of leadership development and organizational consulting experience. She works with women 40+ who find themselves thinking, “Something feels off—and I can’t quite explainit,” helping them understand and navigate the hormonal shifts that can quietly impact clarity, confidence, and decision-making at the very stage when their experience and leadership matter most.

Through practical guidance, relatable education, and real-world strategies, Dr. Linda helps women stabilize their performance while protecting their energy, authority, and earning power. Her work is grounded in her signature concept of Power Longevity™—theability for women to sustain their influence, vitality, and leadership presence well into the second half of their careers.

Rather than framing menopause as a women’s medical problem, Dr. Linda positions it as a community development issue that affects families, organizations, and societies as a whole. Through strategic guidance and education, Dr. Linda helps women increase awareness,start conversations, share accurate information, and create supportive environments where women can navigate this life stage with dignity, knowledge, and confidence.

Tafiq Akhir, widely known as Mr. Menopause, based in the USA, is an internationally recognized menopause educator, and healthy aging strategist, host of The Menopause Made Simple Show, and author of Decoding The 80 Symptoms and Side Effects of Menopause. He helps women and organizations better understand, navigate, and support menopause through evidence based education, training, and trusted resources.

Dr. Michelle Nicole Chapa, MD, MPH, based in Tanzania is a Mental Health Systems Consultant, Public Health Professional and the Founder of Michelle Chapa Foundation, based in Tanzania. She works to strengthen mental health systems, promote rights-based care, and improve access to mental healthcare across Africa. Her interests include community mental health, health systems strengthening, mental health policy, advocacy, and the integration of mental health into primary healthcare.

Ruth Musembi spent years pushing through exhaustion, brain fog, and anxiety before she understood she was navigating menopause — and even longer before she found the accurate information that helped her move from confusion to clarity, and eventually, to peace. Today, she speaks openly about that journey to break the silence and stigma that still surround menopause, particularly in African contexts, and to remind women that this stage of life can be one of renewed wisdom and purpose rather than diminishment.

Ruth brings this same commitment to honest, evidence-based communication into her professional life as a Communication and Sustainability Strategy Advisor with over 25 years of experience advising executive teams, boards, and institutions. A contributing author to the Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Communication Ethics, Second Edition (2025) and a Fellow and Golden Honors Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, she is also Adjunct Faculty at universities in Kenya and at the Chartered Institute of PR in the UK.

Topic: From Despair to Peace: How Correct Menopause Information Changed My Journey

In this talk, I would share my lived experience as a working midlife woman juggling career, family, health, and everyday life. I would further share how access to correct menopause information made a significant difference in how I began to navigate this season with greater peace and relief.

The expected community impact is that midlife women will know they are not alone, feel seen and understood, and receive practical tips to help them navigate midlife, work, family responsibilities, and menopause with greater clarity and peace; and begin to feel like they have their lives back again.

Ivan Wang is the Founder and CEO of Whisp Inc., from USA a women’s sleep wellness brand pioneering “The Sleep Experience Layer™ for Women.” Whisp focuses on non-hormonal nighttime comfort solutions for women experiencing menopause, night sweats, hot flashes, overheating, treatment-induced menopause, and cancer survivorship. Through plant-based textile innovation, Whisp supports better sleep continuity, thermoregulation, recovery, and quality of life.

Dr. Joy Ifunanya Odimegwu from Nigeria, is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lagos, Faculty of Pharmacy specializing in Pharmacognosy. With a career dedicated to the intersection of nature and life sciences, she focuses her research on "foods as medicines" and the development of herbal solutions using biotechnological and cutting edge methods. Her professional journey began as a Senior Plant Research Supervisor at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and progressed through significant roles in Secondary Education and Leadership before joining the University of Lagos in 2012 after the conclusion of her PhD studies.

As a Nutraceutical Scientist and founder of a Lagos-based startup; Gaudium Natural Health Consult. She has successfully commercialized innovative research findings, creating natural health products like CITRUTOX™ hand and surface sanitizer, PAINOMOPLUS+™ highly effective essential oil-based painkiller and BROCCULUS™ a powerful plant-based hormones modulating matrix. She pays particular attention to research on women’s health in the areas of iron deficiency anaemia and menopause. She is seeking investors to scale up her small business enterprises in order to expandtheir reach.

Her prolific academic output includes several books, the best selling, Foods and Hormones: Phytoestrogens in Edible Plants and Human Reproductive Health (2020), Antibiotic Plants, 2023 and Painkiller Plants, 2024 which aims to simplify complex scientific findings for a general audience. Arecipient of numerous prestigious honors, Dr. Odimegwu was recently named a LEA-WH Fellow, 2026 for Menopause reset, a Mujeres por Africa Fellow in 2024 for a project focused on the development and characterization of polymeric nanoparticles loaded with bioactive plant products for targeted therapy in Head and Neck, and Triple Negative Breast Cancers. Other notable accolades include being a LASRIC Fellow from Nigerian Government, a TWAS-UNESCO Associate, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation African Women in Agricultural Research and Development(AWARD)Fellow.

Looking toward the future, she is exploring the application of Artificial Intelligence in pharmaceutical drug formulations as she transitions from core drug discovery to translational research. Dr. Odimegwu remains committed to finding natural solutions for cancer, chronic pain, and microbial drug resistance, driven by a goal to eradicate illnesses through sustainable, science backedbotanical innovations madeavailable to the society for immediate positive impact

TOPIC: Rewiring the Menopausal Body Through Targeted Nutrition

Menopause is a whole-body biological transition that can be positively influenced through targeted nutrition. If we combine sound science with accessible, evidence-based dietary strategies, we can improve the health and quality of life of millions of women, especially across Africa where affordable interventions are urgently needed.

Specific impacts

A. Shift in the Scientific Understanding of Menopause

B. Improved Women's Health Through Evidence-Based Nutrition

C. Influence on Public Health Policy Across Africa