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| Tharani Kandasamy, Visiting Research Fellow |
Tharani Kandasamy, MD, MSc PhD candidate is working with the Program on International Health and Human Rights as visiting research fellow. She is currently pursuing graduate studies at the University of Toronto, collaboratively in the departments of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (HPME) and the Joint Center for Bioethics. For her dissertation work, she is working with the Department of Reproductive Health Research, at WHO evaluating: 1) the Quality of Emergency Obstetric Care and 2) Utilization of Antenatal care services by Returning Refugees in Kabul. During her PIHHR fellowship, she will build on this work and examine the role of human rights in advancing safe motherhood, with a particular focus on refugee populations. Tharani holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto and is completing her postgraduate surgical training there. Her research interests are global health and health systems research with a focus on equity, bioethics and knowledge translation. She has worked on numerous projects in Nepal, South Africa and Sri Lanka, and most recently worked with the WHO looking at building surgical obstetric capacity in South India.
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| Past Fellows |
| Charles Ngwena |
Charles Ngwena, LLB, LLM (Wales), Barrister-at Law, was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Program on International Health and Human Rights in Fall 2007 and is a Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Free State. Prior to joining the University of the Free State in 2002, he taught law at Cardiff Law School (University of Wales 1988-1994), the University of Swaziland (1995) and Vista University (1996-2001). Professor Ngwena has taught, researched and published widely on issues at the intersection between human rights, ethics and health care, including HIV/AIDS, reproductive and sexual health. In recent years, he has begun to research and publish on disability. He was a co-editor of the Butterworths Medico-Legal Reports (UK) for which he now serves as an advisory editor. He serves on the editorial board of Medical Law International. He is Section Editor of Developing World Bioethics and Chief Editor of the Journal for Juridical Science. He is a co-editor of two books—Employment Equity Law (2001) and Health and Human Rights (2007). Professor Ngwena serves on a number of national and international committees, including the Scientific and Ethical Review Group of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction of the World Health Organization. His current research focuses on and reproductive and sexual rights, and equality and disability in the work place. He directs an LLM programme on Reproductive and Sexual Rights which he initiated in 2005.
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| Johanna Nilsson |
Johanna Nilsson, Jur. kand., LL.M. was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Program on International Health and Human Rights in Spring 2007. Ms. Nilsson is an LL.D. candidate in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden. Her research topic is the implementation of women’s reproductive rights in Indonesia. Ms. Nilsson earned her Master of Law in International Human Rights Law from Lund University in 2005, after undertaking field work in Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia, on a scholarship from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Ms. Nilsson teaches public international law, human rights law, and feminist critique of international law at the Faculty of Law and the Centre for Gender Studies, Lund University. She also lectures on various Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights training courses in Sweden and abroad. Ms. Nilsson is particularly interested in human rights of women, legal pluralism, and human rights in South East Asia, and she specializes in reproductive rights.
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| Aluisio Segurado |
Aluisio C. Segurado is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Program on International Health and Human Rights. After graduating in Medicine at the University in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1980, he received his MSc and PhD degrees in Infectious Diseases from the same institution in 1991 and 1994, where he is currently engaged as Associate Professor in the Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. His research focuses on human retroviral infections (HIV/AIDS and HTLV) with particular interest in understanding the vulnerability of different population groups to viral acquisition, as well as to disease progression and response to care interventions. Dr. Segurado’s academic activities cross disciplines and encompass the fields of molecular virology, clinical medicine and public health. His international experience includes acting as Visiting Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, GA., as technical “ad hoc” advisor to the WHO, as well as previous academic research visits to Japan, France and the United States. During his visit to the PIHHR, he intends to explore linkages between HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health at the programmatic and service provision levels, using the vulnerability and human rights conceptual frameworks.
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