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Editorial Team

Editors

Editor-in-Chief
Sapna Desai – Senior Fellow, Population Council Institute, India

Senior Editors
Sarah Keogh – Research Consultant, Spain

TK Sundari Ravindran (Co-Founding Editor) – Independent Researcher, India

Monitoring Editor
Pathika Martin – UK

Managing Editor
Pete Chapman – UK

Associate Editors
Atsumi Hirose – Teaching Fellow in Global Health, Imperial College London, UK; Affiliated Researcher, Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Ramya Kumar – Senior Lecturer, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Emma Pitchforth – Head of Department, Health and Community Sciences; Associate Professor of Primary Care, University of Exeter, UK


Previous Editors-in-Chief and Executive Editors

Emma Pitchforth (2020–2025)

Julia Hussein (2018–2020)

Shirin Heidari (2015–2018)

Marge Berer (1993–2015)


Founding Editors

Marge Berer

TK Sundari Ravindran


Editorial and Advisory Board

Avni Amin – Scientist on Gender-based Violence, WHO, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Switzerland


Luisa Cabal – Special Adviser for Human Rights and Gender at UNAIDS, Switzerland


Mauro Cabral – Executive Director, GATE, Argentina


Lidia Casas – Professor of Law, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile


Marilen J. Danguilan – Social Health Advisor, Salubris Medical Center; Population Services of the Philippines Inc., Philippines


Vincent De Brouwere – Professor of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium


Thérèse Delvaux – Senior Researcher, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium


Patrick Eba – Country Director, UNAIDS, Central African Republic


Shereen El Feki – Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa, Promundo, Canada


Faysal El Kak – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon


Tine Gammeltoft – Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Claudia García-Moreno Esteva – Medical Officer, Team Leader Violence Against Women, WHO, Switzerland


Alexandra Garita – Independent Consultant, Mexico


Ana Cristina González Vélez – Independent Consultant, Researcher and International Advisor in Public Health, Colombia


Sharad Iyengar – Senior Coordinator and Chief Executive, Action Research Training for Health, India


Shireen Jejeebhoy – Independent Researcher, India


Candace Johnson – Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada


Katrina Karkazis – Carol Zicklin Chair, Honors Academy, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA


Gunta Lazdane – Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Public Health, Riga Stradins University, Latvia


Address Malata – Vice Chancellor, Malawi University of Science and Technology, Malawi


Allan Maleche – Executive Director at Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN), Kenya


Affette McCaw-Binns – Professor of Reproductive Health and Epidemiology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica


Alice Miller – Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School, Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale University, USA


Wanda Nowicka – Lecturer, Institute of Applied Sciences, Warsaw University; Chair, Equality and Modernity Association, Poland


Jeffrey O’Malley – Senior Advisor, LGBTI Inclusion, Africa, UNDP, South Africa


Sabina Faiz Rashid – Professor, Mushtaque Chowdhury Chair in Health and Poverty (Endowed by the BRAC Founder, Late Sir F.H. Abed), Director, Center of Excellence for Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (CGSRHR), BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Bangladesh


Juliet Richters – Honorary Visiting Professor, Sexual Health Program, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia


Judit Sándor – Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Hungary


Gita Sen – Director, Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health, Public Health Foundation of India


Iqbal Shah – Principal Research Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA


Tom Shakespeare – Professor of Disability Research, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK


Heidi Stöckl – Director of the Gender Violence & Health Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK


Johanne Sundby – Professor, Institute of Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway


Sylvia Tamale – Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda