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| Prof. Sofia Gruskin, Director |
For a full bio and a list of publications, click here.
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| Aziza Ahmed, Project Manager/Reseach Associate |
Aziza Ahmed JD, MS is a human rights lawyer and Project Manager/Research Associate at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Prior to working at PIHHR, Ms. Ahmed was a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow with the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS. Amongst other projects at ICW, Ms. Ahmed helped launch a project on the forced and coerced sterilization of HIV positive women in Namibia. Ms. Ahmed currently works on issues of HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, violence against women, and the intersection of criminal law and public health. She has previously been a consultant to UNIFEM and UNICEF in the Eastern Caribbean and has worked with several women’s health and rights organizations in Southern Africa, India, the United States, and the Caribbean. She received her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters of Science in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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| Laura Ferguson, Research Manager |
Laura Ferguson , MSc, MA, is the Research Manager at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Her research focuses on identifying methods for strengthening the evidence base of the added value of human rights in health policies and programmes, which includes exploring the linkages between HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health and the intersections of Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS. A key component of these efforts is ensuring that the findings are widely disseminated and used to inform policy and programming. Ms. Ferguson earned her MSc in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in June 2005. She previously worked as a Programme Manager at AMREF UK where she managed a portfolio of community-based health projects in East and Southern Africa. She spent extended periods of time in Africa collaborating with partners, helping to build the capacity of her local colleagues, and designing new projects to tackle a broad range of issues including water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, and women’s human rights. She has also worked in Central and South America on health education in schools, access to reproductive health services and research on child health.
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| Zyde Raad, Program Manager |
Zyde Raad, MS, is a Program Manager at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. He is involved with various projects which aim to build the evidence base of the value of attention to human rights in health in the areas of child and adolescent health, the human rights obligations of the pharmaceutical industry, sexual and reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. His research focuses primarily on the use of human rights to strengthen child survival strategies and health programs. This includes working on several projects with WHO/CAH and UNICEF to create human rights tools to support child and adolescent health programming and to examine the impact of child health legislation at country-level. Prior to this position, he worked as a researcher at Children’s Hospital Oakland, developing and testing novel meningococcal vaccines. He has also worked at a free clinic in California where he coordinated and provided urgent care services for homeless and uninsured patients. His other interests include the legal and public health dimensions of economic sanctions and depleted uranium munitions. He has a Master's in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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| Riley Steiner, Program Coordinator |
Riley Steiner, BA, is the Program Coordinator at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Ms. Steiner earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College in Los Angeles, May 2008. She previously worked as an intern at AIDS Project Los Angeles, referring HIV positive clients to essential care services. Additionally, she conducted molecular biology research at the City of Hope Beckman Research Institute in Duarte, CA and at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Her honors thesis explores the value of a rights-based approach to development in South Africa through a case study on infant feeding practices of HIV positive women. This project emerged as result of previous field research in South Africa focused on connections between health and the right to water. Ms. Steiner’s research interests involve linking scientific developments and rights-based programming to address public health challenges.
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