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| Shahira Ahmed |
Sharia Ahmed, MPH, is a doctoral student in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is involved in various projects of the Program which aim to build the evidence base of the value of attention to human rights in health and to provide tools and methods for integrating rights into public health policy, program and practice. From 2003-2006, she served as coordinator of the work of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights, during the period the Program held the Secretariat for this expert advisory group. Originally from the Sudan, Ms. Ahmed also researches and writes on the human rights, cultural, and health implications of female genital cutting.
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| Erin Hetherington |
Erin Hetherington, MS, is a research affiliate of the Program on International Health and Human Rights. Her work for PIHHR focuses on reproductive health and human rights, and in particular, developing tools to help strengthen reproductive health policy using a rights based approach. Ms. Hetherington recently received her MSc in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Previously, she worked for Oxfam America focusing on promoting and protecting the human rights of Native Americans and migrant workers. She has also lived and worked in Mexico developing reproductive health programs for adolescents.
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| Sarah MacCarthy |
Sarah MacCarthy, MSc, is a doctoral student in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is affiliated with PIHHR, working on projects at the intersections of sexual and reproductive health issues. Before starting her graduate studies, Sarah worked internationally in Malawi, Argentina and more recently in Brazil. In Brazil, Ms. MacCarthy worked with Instituto Promundo on a gender empowerment program and is continuing working in the country on issues surrounding the pregnancy intentions of HIV positive women.
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| Daniel Tarantola |
Daniel Tarantola, MD, is the Chair of the Initiative for Health and Human Rights at the University of New South Wales. A former senior advisor to the World Health Organisation (WHO), he has also worked at the Harvard School of Public Health as Instructor with the Department of Population and International Health and as Senior Associate with the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Tarantola was involved in the creation of Medecins Sans Frontieres and during a long and distinguished career with WHO supervised the team responsible for eradicating smallpox. As a researcher, he is best known for his work in the area of HIV/AIDS and human rights.
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| Past Affiliates |
| Jessie Evans |
Jessie Evans, BA, was the Program Assistant at the Program on International Health and Human Rights from 2006 to 2008. Ms. Evans earned her Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and World Affairs, with an emphasis on International Organizations and Human Rights from Occidental College in Los Angeles, May 2006. She previously worked as an intern at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Africa Division, focusing much of her work on the UN Missions in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Her past research has primarily focused on issues of transitional justice and organized truth telling, with field research in Argentina and South Africa. Ms. Evans’ research interests include addressing the impact of human rights movements and structures in countries in transition, focusing on the use of a rights-based approach to health, capacity building, and policy development.
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