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Who We Are

Read about our team below. Learn about organizations that collaborate with GHJP on our Partners page.

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Faculty

Gregg Gonsalves
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership

Gregg Gonsalves is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School, the co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and a leading HIV/AIDS activist. Gonsalves is…

Amy Kapczynski
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Global Health Justice Partnership

Amy Kapczynski is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Faculty Co-Director of the Law and Political Economy Project,…

Alice Miller
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership

Alice Miller is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and the Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the…

Staff

Sarah Harwood
Program Coordinator

Sarah Harwood is the program coordinator for the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale Law School. As coordinator, Sarah oversees the daily operations of the budget, media, programs, events,…

Clinical and Global Health Postdoctoral Fellows

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Gender & Sexuality Fellow at the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership

Daniel Newton is the Gender & Sexuality Fellow at the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership. Daniel supervises student projects for the GHJP practica, and works on projects on LGBTQ youth…

Current Senior and Visiting Fellows

Stewart Adelson
Senior Visiting Fellow, 2019–present

Stewart Adelson, M.D. is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and is Founding Director of the Youth Equity Science/YES Project of Yale Law and Public Health Schools, a collaboration of…

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Visiting Fellow

Patralekha Chatterjee is an award-winning journalist-columnist, author, and consultant to international agencies focusing on development issues across multiple platforms. As a journalist and…

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Visiting Fellow, 2017–present

Debora Diniz is co-founder of Anis: Institute of Bioethics, one of the key feminist groups dedicated to bioethics and human rights in Latin…

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Visiting Fellow, 2015–present

Susana T. Fried, currently an independent consultant, was most recently the Senior Gender Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) HIV/AIDS Group (Bureau for Development Policy…

Katrina Karkazis
Senior Visiting Fellow, 2018–present

Katrina Karkazis is a cultural anthropologist with extensive training in science and technology studies, gender studies, and empirical bioethics. Broadly, her work examines the interconnection of…

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Senior Fellow, 2020–present

Dr. Unni Karunakara was International President of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from 2010-2013. He has been a humanitarian worker and a public health professional for…

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Visiting Fellow, 2015–present

Eszter Kismödi, JD, LLM., is an international human rights lawyer on sexual and reproductive health law, policy and research. For the past 15 years her work has focused on developing ways in which…

Sharonann Lynch
Senior Visiting Fellow

Sharonann Lynch has worked for more than 20 years in the global health, access to medicines, and humanitarian fields. She joined Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2006,…

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Senior Visiting Fellow, 2019-present

Jaimie Morse, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Global Health Justice Partnership at…

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Visiting Fellow

Christopher Morten, JD, PhD is a lawyer who currently teaches at …

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Visiting Scholar, 2022-present

Charles Ngwena, LLB (Wales), LLM (Wales), LLD (Free State), Barrister-at-Law, is a Research Scholar at Yale for the academic years 2022-24, with the support of the Gruber Program for…

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Visiting Fellow, 2013–present

Rebecca Schleifer, JD/MPH, is a globally respected advocate, researcher and scholar working in the field of health and human rights. Over the last ten years, her work at Human Rights Watch helped…

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Visiting Fellow, 2017-present

Carole S. Vance, PhD, MPH, is an internationally-recognized anthropologist who has published widely on sexuality, human rights, science, gender, and health. She coordinated the landmark Barnard…

Ying Xin
Visiting Scholar

Ying Xin is the CEO of Xiaowusheng, a platform that provides gender-affirming mental health counseling. Previously, Xin served as the director of the Beijing LGBT Center, which was the foremost…

Current Research and Advocacy Fellows

David Oliveros
Research and Advocacy Fellow

David  Oliveros, MPH, works at the intersection of HIV and substance use epidemiology. His academic and advocacy interests include HIV equity and destigmatization, harm reduction,…

Past Senior and Visiting Fellows

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Senior Fellow in Residence, Fall 2014

Kajal Bhardwaj is a global leader in the access to medicines movement, and is a lawyer who has been working on health and human rights for over a decade. She has worked particularly closely with…

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Senior Fellow in Residence, Spring 2013

Rodney Ehrlich holds joint appointments as Professor in the School of Public and Family Medicine and the Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), and is Director of Occupational…

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Senior Fellow in Residence, Fall 2012

Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and activist who has conducted public interest litigation, education, training, and legal reform on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS in South Africa for over a…

Steering Committee

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Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine

Frederick L. Altice, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the Director of Clinical and Community Research,…

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Director of the AIDS Program, Yale New Haven Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine

Gerald Friedland is the Director of the AIDS Program at Yale New Haven Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine. He is a former member of…

Heather Gerken
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law

Heather K. Gerken is the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and is in her second term as Dean of Yale Law School. Dean Gerken is one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law…

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Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health

Dr. Albert Icksang Ko, an infectious disease physician, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and Collaborating…

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Dean, Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing

Dr. Ann Kurth is Dean, Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing. Dr. Kurth is also an adjunct professor in the New York University College of Nursing and the NYU College…

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Director of Jackson School of Global Affairs

James Levinsohn heads the Jackson School of Global Affairs, the home of Yale University’s undergraduate and graduate programs in global affairs. He is also the co-chair of the University…

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Executive Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute

Mike Skonieczny is Executive Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. Mr. Skonieczny was previously the director of public policy for Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS,…

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Dean, Yale School of Public Health and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health

Dr. Sten Vermund, the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, is a pediatrician and infectious disease epidemiologist focused on diseases of low and middle income countries. His work on…