The short course on Women’s Health, Masculinities and Empowerment: Advocacy and Training, has attracted 30 professionals from various disciplines, including the medical, legal, gender and human rights movement. All these have a specific interest in advocating for the improvement of health services and better information for women’s health. Today, we share with you some of the participants’ names, faces, biographies and their reasons as to how they believe the course will help them in their work.