As Senior Scholar in Residence at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator, Alicia Ely Yamin creates innovative learning materials around what she considers to be the most pervasive and pressing global health challenges: the origination and manifestation of gross inequalities on health outcomes, and reproductive health rights. Trained in both law and public health at Harvard, Alicia’s 20+year career at the intersection of health and human rights has bridged academia and activism. Professor Yamin, an Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is known globally for her pioneering scholarship and advocacy in relation to economic and social rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the right to health. 

Alicia is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and holds an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has contributed to and consulted on the drafting of multiple General Comments by U.N. treaty bodies, as well as U.N. Human Rights Council resolutions, and has published over a hundred scholarly articles on international and comparative constitutional law, development and public health. Her recent book, Power, Suffering and the Struggle for Dignity: Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter, with a foreword by Paul Farmer (UPenn, 2016) is now available in Spanish (Editorial Universidad de Los Andes, 2018). Her forthcoming book on the right to health is being published by Stanford University Press.