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. 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. Fleischman also works as a consultant to several other organizations focusing on gender and HIV/AIDS issues, including CARE and UNAIDS. 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 most recent publications from CSIS include 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); from UNAIDS, An Analysis of the Gender Policies of the Three Major AIDS Financing Institutions: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank, and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (July 2008); and from CARE, Maximizing HIV Prevention: Building the Case for Social and Economic Vaccines (August 2008), and The Future of PEPFAR: Comprehensive Approaches, Sustainable Results (March 2008).