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| Joya Banerjee |
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Joya is the Co-Founder of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA), a youth-led global network of over 7,000 young people fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in over 170 countries worldwide, based in New York and Accra, Ghana. GYCA empowers young people with the knowledge, skills, resources and opportunities they need to be effective agents of change in their communities.
Joya is currently the Manager of Membership and Advisory Services at GBCHealth (formerly the Global Business Coalition on AIDS, TB and Malaria), an NGO dedicated to private sector engagement on global health issues. She recently worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Pretoria, South Africa, as PEPFAR's Gender Specialist as an Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellow for one year.
Joya graduated with a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2010. While at Harvard, she worked as a research associate for the Indian Research Collective PUKAR on a study in a Mumbai slum on urban child health and immunization status, generating data for her master's thesis that was then used to pressure local government to immunize 80% of children in the slum. Joya was also a teaching assistant for a Harvard course on Chile's health sector reform at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies in Santiago, Chile.
Joya graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University cum laude in 2004 with a double major in Human Rights and Political Science. She wrote her senior thesis on the feminization of HIV/AIDS in India and started a chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign called Columbia Global Justice, with the support of Jeffrey Sachs at the Earth Institute.
She 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 helped develop the New York City Human Rights Initiative on gender and race discrimination. As a consultant at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in the HIV/AIDS Branch and the Reproductive Health Branch, she helped to develop a paid fellowship program for young people from developing countries and helped manage an advocacy program for young leaders on sexual reproductive health called Global Youth Partners. Joya has conducted fieldwork, outreach, and advocacy with marginalized populations and youth living with HIV in India, Viet Nam, Ukraine, Pakistan, Poland, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Nigeria, Malawi, South Africa, Canada, Turkey, Switzerland, France and Austria.
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