Janet Fleischman

Janet Fleischman is a senior associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, where she focuses on women’s global health issues, including HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. She has also worked as a consultant for UNAIDS, nongovernmental organizations, and private foundations. From 2002 to 2008, she chaired the gender committee of the CSIS HIV/AIDS Task Force, a bipartisan effort aimed at strengthening U.S. policy on HIV/AIDS. From 1983 to 2003, she worked for Human Rights Watch as a researcher on Eastern Europe and Africa and, ultimately, as the organization’s Washington director for Africa. Fleischman has conducted numerous fact-finding missions to Africa, India, and Eastern Europe and has written and edited many reports relating to gender and HIV/AIDS, U.S. policy, and human rights. Her articles have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Times, and AllAfrica.com.

Fleischman is a frequent speaker on issues related to human rights and HIV/AIDS, and she has testified before both the Senate and House Africa Subcommittees. Her CSIS publications include The Global Health Initiative in Malawi: New Approaches and Challenges to Reaching Women and Girls (December 2011); Improving Women's Health in South Africa: Opportunities for PEPFAR (October 2011); Lessons from Kenya for the Global Health Initiative (February 2011); Linkages between Gender, AIDS, and Development: Implications for U.S. Policy (November 2010); Making Gender a Global Health Priority (November 2009); International Family Planning: A Common-Ground Approach to an Expanded U.S. Role (July 2009); Voices from the Field: The Role of Integrated Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Programs in Strengthening U.S. Policy (February 2008); and Priorities for Action: Gender and PEPFAR Reauthorization (September 2007).