Natalia Kanem

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Natalia Kanem

Natalia Kanem is from Panama and is the Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN organization for sexual and reproductive health. She is one of the highest-ranking women at the United Nations and is the first Latin American woman to head UNFPA.

education

Kanem attended Harvard University , where she completed a bachelor's degree in History and Science . During this time she dealt intensively with women's rights and took part in the first UN World Conference on Women in Mexico in 1975 . She then studied medicine at Columbia University in New York and earned a master's degree in public health with a specialization in epidemiology and preventive medicine from the University of Washington in Seattle .

Career

Early career

Kanem began an academic career in the medical schools of Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University in the field of public health.

She was a Senior Associate at the non-profit Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago from 2012 to 2013. From 2005 to 2011 she was founding president of ELMA Philanthropies , a private organization that cares for children and young people in Africa.

Ford Foundation

Kanem served as a senior executive and representative for West Africa at the Ford Foundation from 1992 to 2005 with a focus on female reproductive health and sexuality . She subsequently served as the assistant director for the Ford Foundation's programs to promote peace and social justice in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, South and North America.

UNFPA

From 2014 to 2016 Kanem worked as a representative of the UN Population Fund in Tanzania. In 2016 she moved to the headquarters in New York as Deputy Executive Director. On October 3, 2017, she was appointed Head of UNFPA by UN Secretary General António Guterres . She formulated three goals for her work at UNFPA: to reduce maternal mortality, the unmet need for family planning and gender-based violence and other harmful behavior to zero.

Other activities

  • Member of the honorary board of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists
  • Co-chair of the governing body of Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), a multinational initiative for the right of access to contraception, since 2017 (together with Christopher Elias)
  • Temporary consultant at TrustAfrica , an organization promoting democracy and development in Africa

Web links

Source references

  1. ↑ unfpa.org
  2. ^ A Woman's Voice for Women at the UN Agency for Reproductive Rights . In: The New York Times . 17th December 2017.
  3. ↑ John Zarocostas: Natalia Kanem: lifelong advocate for women's health and rights . In: The Lancet . 391, No. 10116, 2018, ISSN  0140-6736 , p. 115. doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (17) 33323-8 . PMID 29353611 .
  4. ↑ Natalia Kanem: biography . In: UNFPA . 2018.
  5. ↑ lloydbest.institute
  6. ^ Lloyd Best Institute .
  7. ↑ elmaphilanthropies.org
  8. ^ Kanem profile .
  9. ^ Kanem profile .
  10. ^ Ms. Natalia Kanem of Panama - Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) . United Nations. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ unfpa.org UNFPA press release, accessed April 20, 2019.
  12. ^ Kanem profile .
  13. ↑ Kanem appointed .
  14. ↑ Transformative results .
  15. ↑ List of the members of the honorary advisory board of the Dag Hammarskjöld fund for journalists , accessed on April 20, 2019.
  16. ↑ FP2020 Reference Group Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), accessed April 20, 2019.
  17. ↑ trustafrica.org , accessed April 20, 2019.


personal data
SURNAME Kanem, Natalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Panamanian epidemiologist and UNFPA director
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century