Barbara Klugman
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Barbara Klugman's details
- Country: South Africa
- Title: Associate Professor
- Institution: University of the Witwatersrand School of Public Health
Barbara Klugman (BA Honours−Development Studies), MA−Social Anthropology, PhD−Public Health) works freelance, supporting social justice organizations in strategy development and evaluation. She is on the board of Urgent Action Fund-Africa, and a part-time associate professor at the Wits School of Public Health. Barbara was an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa, on the executive committees of the Federation of Transvaal Women, the Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee and the Black Sash; she established and directed the Women’s Health Project in South Africa which played a key role in building support for progressive policies on gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights as part of the new democracy. In this role she coordinated the writing of the Department of Health’s gender and health policy and a new rights-based population policy; and represented the South African government at the Cairo and Bejing Conference. For 6.5 years Barbara was a senior Program Officer at the Ford Foundation in New York, managing the Foundation’s international sexual and reproductive health and rights portfolio. On returning to South Africa in late 2009, in addition to ongoing strategy and evaluation work with donors and NGOs, Barbara has undertaken a review of civil society activism on SRHR in South Africa, and coordinated the development of a framework for SRHR for the South African Dept of Health, while working with the WHO on the development of a report on a human rights approach to sexual health. Barbara has published training manuals, reports, books and journal articles on sexual rights, reproductive rights and policy analyses. She lives with Willie Currie and dogs, Jethro Baggins and Lili-Pad. They have a son, Paul. She relaxes making jewelry, listening to music, walking and talking.
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