About me
Joya Banerjee is the Gender Technical Advisor at Jhpiego and the USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program. She has 14 years of experience in gender, gender-based violence, RMNCH, HIV/AIDS, voluntary medical male circumcision, and youth leadership. Joya has worked across public, private, government, UN and academic sectors as a non-profit founding Director, AIDS activist, researcher, grantmaker, fundraiser and program implementer. She has worked in 14 low and middle-income countries, including South Africa as CDC/ PEPFAR’s Gender Specialist, India as a researcher on immunization in an urban slum, and Chile as a teaching assistant for a course on health reform. She has a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and a BA in Human Rights and Political Science from Barnard College of Columbia University. Joya has published public health articles in 9 peer-reviewed journals, served on a WHO Guidelines Development Group, and gave a TEDx talk on adolescent health and HIV. In her spare time she enjoys biking, sewing & serving on the board of a local non-profit, the Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project.
Joya Banerjee is the Gender Technical Advisor at Jhpiego and the USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program. She has 14 years of experience in gender, gender-based violence, RMNCH, HIV/AIDS, voluntary medical male circumcision, and youth...
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