Alicia Yamin

Overview

Alicia Yamin is the Program Director of the Health and Human Rights Initiative at the O Neill Institute. Previously Alicia was a Lecturer on Law and Global Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the JD /MPH Program. Alicia was also the Policy Director at the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard a Global Fellow at the Centre for Law and octal transformation in Norway and was selected as the 2015 16 Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor of Human Rights University of Connecticut. Trained in both law and public health at Harvard Yamin s 20 year career at the intersection of health and human rights has bridged academia and activism. From 2007 to 2011 Yamin held the prestigious Joseph H. Flom Fellowship on Global Health and Human Rights at Harvard Law School. Prior to that she served as Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights where she oversaw all of the organization s field investigations and was on the faculty of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Yamin was a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Economic and Social Rights for 15 years and the Chair from 2009 2014.