Claudia Garcia Moreno

Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno is a physician from Mexico with a masters in community medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 25 years of experience in health care delivery, research and policy, working in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Increasingly her work has focused on sexual and reproductive health, women's health and gender in health. For the last 15 years Claudia has been leading the World Health Organisation's (WHO) work on gender and women's health, violence against women and HIV/AIDS in women and girls and currently leads the team on Gender, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Health and Adolescence in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO. She is coordinator of the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, a large research initiative involving now over 15 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. She is a founder and Leadership Council member of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), and is on the Steering Committee of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.