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Joya Banerjee, 27, is a Masters student in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). She is currently working on the "Healthy Cities, Wealthy Cities" urban health research study in a Mumbai slum, a collaborative effort between HSPH and the Indian Research Collective PUKAR. In 2004, Joya co-founded the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a global network of over 4,000 young people fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in 150 countries worldwide, based in New York and Accra, Ghana. She was recently a teaching assistant for an HSPH course on health sector reform in Chile at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies.
Joya graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University cum laude in 2004 with a double major in Human Rights and Political Science. At Columbia, she wrote her senior thesis on the Feminization of HIV/AIDS in India and started a student organization on HIV/AIDS and health as a human right with the support of of Jeffrey Sachs at the Earth Institute. Joya has been involved in health and gender justice since 2002 when she worked at Amnesty International’s Women’s Human Rights Program where she lobbied on Capitol Hill for women's rights, and later helped develop the New York City Human Rights Initiative. As a consultant at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), she helped to develop a paid fellowship program for young people from developing countries. Joya has conducted fieldwork, outreach, and advocacy with marginalized populations and youth living with HIV in India, Viet Nam, Ukraine, Poland, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Nigeria and Malawi.
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Joya Banerjee, 27, es una estudiante en el Departamento de Salud Mundial y Población en la Escuela de Salud Público de Harvard (HSPH). Joya está trabajando en la investigacion "Ciudades Saludables, Ciudades Ricas" sobre salud urbano en un barrio illegal y pobre en Mumbai, India, una colaboración entre HSPH y la Colectiva PUKAR en la India. En 2004, Joya co-fundo La Coalición Global de Jóvenes contra el VIH / SIDA (GYCA), una red mundial de más de 4.000 jóvenes que participan en la lucha contra el VIH / SIDA en 150 países, basado en Nueva York y Accra, Ghana. Recientamente, Joya era la asistente para un curso sobre la reforma del sector de salud en Chile para el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de David Rockefeller.
Joya se graduó de Barnard College de Columbia University cum laude en 2004 con una doble licenciatura en Derechos Humanos y Ciencias Políticas. En Columbia, ella escribió su tesis sobre la feminización del VIH / SIDA en la India. El interés de Joya en el desarrollo internacional, el género y los derechos humanos comenzó durante una practica con el programa de los Derechos Humanos de la Mujer con Amnistía Internacional que duro dos años. Su experiencia la llevó a iniciar una organización de estudiantes sobre el VIH / SIDA y la salud como un derecho humano llamado Columbia Justicia Global, un grupo de estudiantes luchando contra el SIDA, con el apoyo de Jeffrey Sachs del Earth Institute.
Como una consultora del Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA), Joya ayudó a establecer un programa de becas pagadas para líderes jóvenes de paises desarollandos. Joya ha trabajado con poblaciones marginadas y los y las jóvenes que viven con el VIH en la India, Viet Nam, Ucrania, Polonia, México, Chile, Argentina, Nigeria y Malawi.
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