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| Prof. Sofia Gruskin, Director |
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| Laura Ferguson, Research Manager |
Laura Ferguson , MS, 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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| Emily Waller, Program Manager |
Emily Waller, MPH, is the Program Manager at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Her professional experience has largely been based in academic settings centering on international public health research, education and program management. Ms. Waller’s research background has focused on exploring the interface between public health, security, peacebuilding and gender, with particular attention to the Asia-Pacific Region. She contributed to research in Sri Lanka and the Solomon Islands, which drew on the experience of academics and practitioners to develop a practical field tool to provide rapid assessment of peacebuilding and conflict prevention components of health initiatives in conflict-affected settings. More recently, her research focus has expanded to the theory, methods, tools and application of health and human rights frameworks more broadly to various international public health and development challenges, including HIV, sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and climate change. Her diverse work in this field has included such activities as research on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rehabilitation centers in Vietnam; the organization of an international conference on realizing the rights to health and development; and supporting postgraduate education in health, development and human rights. Ms. Waller received her Master in Public Health specializing in International Health and Development in 2007 from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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| Gretchen Williams, Project Manager |
Gretchen Williams, MS, is a project manager at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Her research focuses on issues of sexual health and rights, health and human rights within conflict settings, gender and HIV/AIDS. Prior to this position, Ms. Williams worked as an HIV/AIDS educator in Zambia, providing counseling to orphans and other vulnerable children. She has also worked as an intern at the World Health Organization, where she conducted research on the criminalization of sex work and its resulting health impacts. Most recently, she conducted a research study on the barriers to effective health service delivery for sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Her previous research activities include an assessment of the health needs of homeless women living with mental illness in Washington, DC, and an exploration of the intersections between human rights, health and the peacebuilding process in post-conflict Nepal. Ms. Williams earned her Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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