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Anjala Kanesathasan
Senior Public Health Specialist
Bio:
Anjala Kanesathasan is a senior public health specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). In this role, Kanesathasan provides technical and management direction for a range of projects related to health, gender, adolescents and women’s empowerment.
Kanesathasan brings more than 15 years of experience developing, managing and evaluating health and development projects. She has led multiple efforts at ICRW, including assessing options for increasing women’s agricultural engagement in West Africa and evaluating a program to decrease violence among young men in the Balkans. Prior to joining ICRW in 2007, Kanesathasan directed the behavior change communications component of a large reproductive and child health program in Kenya with PATH. Kanesathasan also has directed communications programs for a social marketing project to promote family planning and prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in Uganda.
In addition to her 10 years based in East Africa, Kanesathasan’s field experience includes southern Africa, South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.
Expertise:
Population and Reproductive Health, HIV and AIDS, Adolescents, Violence Against Women, Measurement and Evaluation
Languages Spoken:
English (native), Tamil (conversational), French (basic), Hindi (basic)
Education:
Kanesathasan holds a master’s of public health from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s in modern European history and South Asian studies from Brown University.