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Peter Berman
HSPH Building 1, 1208A
(617)432-4616
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Peter Berman, Professor of Population and International Health Economics, directs the International Health Systems Program (IHSP), a multidisciplinary program dedicated to improving the ability of health care systems in low and middle income countries. IHSP focuses on three main themes: strengthening the information base for the design and evaluation of successful health sector reform policies; improving health care financing, with a special focus on the development and use of national health accounts; and making health care services work better through development and application of innovations in provider payment, governance, organization, and regulation to both public and private sector providers.

Arthur James Dyck
Andover 501
(617)495-5742
Arthur James Dyck, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics in the School of Public Health and a Member of the Faculty of Divinity, works on population policy, health care, and Christian ethics. His current work focuses on bioethics, and he recently completed a volume on euthanasia. He is working on revising his anthology Ethics in Medicine and finishing a book on the right to universal health care access.

Sofia Gruskin
Program on International Health and Human Rights
(617)432-4315
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Sofia Gruskin is Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Population and International Health and Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health. The emphasis of her work is the policy and practice implications of linking health to human rights, with particular attention to women, children, gender issues, and vulnerable populations in the context of HIV/AIDS.

H. Kristian Heggenhougen
641 Huntington Avenue
(617)495-9791
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H. Kristian Heggenhougen, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of population sciences at the School of Public Health, works on global public health. His current research looks at preventable diseases, immunization, STDs/AIDS, and the connection between human rights levels and disease. He has also written on the relationship between anthropology and medicine and community-based health approaches.

Jennifer Leaning
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, 7th Floor
(617)432-0656
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Jennifer Leaning, Professor of International Health, works on humanitarian crises, humanitarian law, and medical ethics. She is the Director of the Program on Humanitarian Crises at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center and is the associate editor of Medicine &. Global Survival. Professor Leaning recently co-edited Humanitarian Crises: The Medical and Public Health Response (Harvard UP, 1999). She was a founding board member of Physicians for Human Rights, and she is a member of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies.

Stephen Marks
(617)384-5011
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Stephen Marks is the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights and Senior Fellow of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies. He works on human rights aspects of international law, and organizations peacekeeping, development and international health issues. His current research focuses on the right to development, human rights and the human genome, cultural rights, He edited (with Burns Weston) and contributed to The Future of International Human Rights (Transnational Publishers, 1999) and edited and contributed to Health and Human Rights: The Educational Challenge (APHA and FXB Center Publication, 2002). His recent articles relate to human reproductive cloning, universal jurisdiction, human rights education and the relation between human rights and bioethics.

Carla Obermeyer
665 Huntington Avenue, 11th Floor
(617)432-0659
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Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, Associate Professor of Population and international health, works on the cultural context of public health practices. She is especially interested in the ways in which factors such as gender, son preference, local notions of prevention and treatment, or ideas about human rights influence patterns of fertility and health care. She has a special interest in examining reproductive health in Islamic countries, and she has written about female genital surgeries. Her most recent book is Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health, (2001, Oxford University Press).

Mindy Roseman
Mindy Jane Roseman, JD, PhD, is an Instructor in the Department of Population and International Health and Senior Research Officer for the International Health and Human Rights Program, of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. She teaches in the interdisciplinary concentration on Women, Gender and Health. She is an international human rights lawyer, with expertise in the area of sexual, reproductive, and children's rights. She also holds a doctorate in Modern European History. Her current research projects include a history the human rights and eugenics movements in France, and a co-editing a volume of essays on global reproductive health and rights.