Françoise Girard

Françoise Girard

Françoise Girard is president of the International Women’s Health Coalition. A lawyer by training, she is a long-time advocate and expert on women’s health, human rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She has held a variety of positions, including senior programme officer for international policy at IWHC; consultant for the International Planned Parenthood Federation and DAWN, a network of women’s rights activists from the global South; and director of the public health programme at Open Society Foundations. Twitter @FrancoiseGirard iwhc.org