Avni Amin

Avni Amin is a technical officer at WHO's Department of Reproductive Health and Research. Avni has nearly 25 years of experience working on gender, sexual and reproductive health and HIV issues and for the last 15 years has been working on violence against women as a public health problem. At WHO, Avni has led the development of WHO guidelines to respond to child and adolescent sexual abused. She was also one of technical leads in preparing the WHO global plan of action on health systems response to violence against women and girls and against children, that was endorsed by 193 countries at the World Health Assembly. Prior to WHO, Avni worked on HIV prevention trials and also on policy research related to gender equality and HIV. Avni has a PhD in international health from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health and is originally from India.