With affiliates and experts in gender work around the world, the RTI Global Gender Center addresses gender inequalities and disparities worldwide through innovative research and international collaboration. Our global network includes researchers and experts from local and global external organizations who partner with us on cross-disciplinary research and programs. External affiliates foster a collaborative, noncompetitive atmosphere for producing knowledge on gender and turning it into practice.
Benefits of becoming an affiliate include:
- Collaborate with internal RTI affiliates and gender experts on gender-related programs and research
- Get exposure for your professional gender-related work at Center events
- Network with other affiliates at Center events, and connect with RTI affiliates on overlapping research interests
- Get support from RTI affiliates who can contribute their expertise to your gender-related professional work
- Be part of a global network with the shared mission of ending gender inequalities worldwide
Practitioners, policymakers, research institutes, and academic researchers interested in becoming an RTI Global Gender Center Affiliate should be prepared to provide the following for consideration:
- Current CV
- Summary of your body of gender research
- Home organization and title
Please note that all external affiliates must undergo a vetting process by our legal department. Being an external affiliate to the RTI Global Gender Center does not constitute a legal, contractual, or employment relationship with RTI. Nor does it imply any guarantee of funding opportunities. RTI reserves sole right to discontinue affiliation status with the Center.
Please contact us to become an affiliate.
Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor Of Medicine, Professor Of Epidemiology, Co-Director Unc Cfar - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Distinguished University Professor - Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work
Professor, Gynecologic Oncology - Director, UNC Center for Women’s Health Research
Former Executive Director - WomenNC
Andrea DeMaria, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Director And Founder Of The Interdisciplinary Women's Reproductive Health Collaborative - Purdue University
Susan Dewey, PhD
Associate Professor And Graduate Director, Criminology & Criminal Justice - University of Alabama
Nabila El Bassel, PhD
Director of the Social Intervention Group - Columbia University School of Social Work
Mary Ellsberg, PhD
Founding Director of the Global Women's Institute - Professor, George Washington University
Global Strategic Development Advisor On Women’s Empowerment; Ceo Ora Global Development Advisors
Diana Fishbein, PhD
C. Eugene Bennett Chair In Prevention Research - Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University
Barbara Friedman, PhD
Co-Director, The Irina Project (Tip) - Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Quinn Gentry, PhD, MBA
President & Ceo, Fellow - Messages of Empowerment Productions, LLC and Harvard Public Health Review Fellowship
Jennifer Jain, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Hendree Jones, PhD
Executive Director, UNC Horizons - Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jennifer Johnson, PhD
Professor And C.S. Mott Endowed Professor Of Public Health - College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Anne Johnston, PhD
Parker Distinguished Professor, Co-Director, The Irina Project (Tip) - School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amy Kramer, MMsc, BA
John Mccain Strategic Defense Fellow - Former “Young Trustee" U.S. Department of Defense; Duke University Board of Trustees
Anant Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Of Rural Management - Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, India
Allison Kurti, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry - University of Vermont College of Medicine
Sara LeGrand, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Global Health - Duke Global Health Institute
Eleanor Lowndes Stevenson, PhD, RN
Clinical Professor - Duke University School of Nursing
Allysha C. Maragh-Bass, PhD, MPH
Scientist; Adjunct Faculty; Research Collaborator - Behavioral Epidemiological and Clinical Sciences, Global Health Research, FHI 360; Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington Milken Institute School of Public Health; Department of Health, Behavior, Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
Vickie Mays, PhD, MSPH
Director Of Brite Center For Science Research And Policy - University of California Los Angeles
Jaimie Meyer, MD, MS, FACP
Associate Professor - Yale School of Medicine
Lynn McIntyre, MD
Professor Emerita, Department Of Community Health Sciences; Associate Scientific Director, Institute For Public Health - Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Christina Meade, PhD
Associate Professor, Department Of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Duke University School of Medicine
Bronwyn Myers, PhD
Deputy Director, Alcohol, Tobacco And Other Drug Research Unit - South African Medical Research Council
Kate Plourde, DrPH, MPH
Senior Technical Advisor For Aysrh - FHI 360
Elizabeth Reed, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor And Co-Director, Global Health - Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, University of California San Diego and SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Global Health
Charlene M. Reiss, PhD
Consultant, Nonprofit Organization Management - Partners for Impact
Maria Murray Riemann, PhD
Executive Director - WomenNC
Rebekah Rollston, MD, MPH
Family Medicine Physician - Cambridge Health Alliance
Zumrat Salmorbekova
Independent International Peace And Development Consultant, Visiting Lecturer - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oyuntuya Shagdarsuren, MS
Junior Researcher, Department Of Political And Cultural Change - Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany
Ashley Simons-Rudolph, PhD
Chief Scientist, Simons-Rudolph Consulting, LLC - Associate Research Scientist, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Sally Stevens, PhD
Distinguished Outreach Professor In Gender And Women’s Studies, Executive Director Of The Southwest Institute For Research On Women - University of Arizona
Steffanie Strathdee, DrPh
Associate Dean Of Global Health Sciences, Harold Simon Distinguished Professor - University of California San Diego School of Medicine
Vivian Taylor, MPP, MDiv
Partner, Taylor Whitaker Consulting - Communication Associate, Climate Nexus
Katherine Theall, PhD
Cecile Usdin Professor, Women's Health - Director, Mary Amelia Women’s Center for Women's Health Equity and Senior Director, Violence Prevention Institute at Tulane University
Maria M. Vivas Pérez MD MPH
Directora Ejecutiva - Fundación Oriéntam
Samuella Ware, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Researcher - Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions
Melissa Watt, PhD
Associate Professor Of Population Health Sciences, Co-Appointment In The University Of Utah Honors - Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University
Katie Wang, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health - Yale University
Caron Zlotnick, PhD
Director, Behavioral Medicine At Women And Infants Hospital; Professor, Psychiatry And Human Behavior, Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Brown University - Honorary Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
WomenNC
WomenNC
Claudia Pérez Müller, MA
Senior Consultant In Gender Equity, Associate Director Of Connecting D&I
Willo Pequegnat, PhD
Chief Executive Officer - Salix Health Consulting, Inc
Jennifer Toller Erausquin, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair - UNC Greensboro School of Health and Human Sciences
Michelle Travis, JD
Professor of Law - University of San Francisco School of Law