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Distinguished Scientist and Senior Lecturer

kaufmanj@brandeis.edu Heller  G241 781-736-3889

Expertise

AIDS, Gender, Reproductive Health, International Health, International Health Sector Reform

Courses

  • HS 253f - HIV/AIDS and Public Policy
  • HS 259f - Topics in Sustainable Development
  • HS 316f - International Health Policy

Scholarship

  • Fang Jing and Joan Kaufman. "Reproductive Health in China: Improve the Means to the End." The Lancet 372. 9650 (2009): 1619-1620.
  • Fang Jing, Joan Kaufman, Liu Yunguo. "Health Service Planning and Women's Organization in Poor Rural China: The Case of Dafang County, Guizhou Province, GHEN China Case Study Working Paper 1." 2008.
  • Kaufman, Joan, Charles W. Freeman and Xiaoqing Lu. Infectious Disease Challenges in China. Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington DC: 2009.
  • Kaufman, Joan. "Measuring Reproductive Health: Moving from Contraceptive Prevalence to Human Development." Critical Reflections on Global Reproductive Health and Rights. Ed. Laura Reichenbach and Mindy Roseman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
  • Kaufman, Joan. "The Role of NGOs in China's AIDS Response - Update, Challenges and Possibilities." Serving the People:State-Society Negotiations and Welfare Provision in China. Ed. Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh. London: Routledge, 2009
  • Jing, Fang and Kaufman, Joan. "Reproductive Health in China :improve the means to the end." The Lancet 372. 9650 (2008): 1619-1620.
  • Kaufman, Joan. "China's Health Care System and Avian Influenza Preparedness." Journal of Infectious Diseases 197 S. Supl 1 (2008): S7-13.
  • Yu, Dongbao, Souteyrand, Yves, Banda, Mazuwa A. , Kaufman, Joan, and Perriens, Joseph H.. "Investment in HIV/AIDS Programs: Does it help to strengthen health systems in developing countries?." Globalization and Health 4. 8 (2008).
  • Kaufman, Joan , Erli, Zhang, and Zhenming, Xie. "Family Planning Quality of Care in China: Scaling Up a Pilot Project in a National Reform Program." Studies in Family Planning 37. 1 (2006): 17-28.
  • Kaufman, Joan. "China: The Intersections between Poverty, Health Inequity, Reproductive Health and AIDS." Development 48. 4 (2005): 113-119.
  • Kaufman, Joan and Fang, J.. "Health Services Privatisation and the Reproductive Health of Rural Chinese Women." Reproductive Health Matters 10. 20 (2002): 108-116.
  • Kaufman, Joan and Jun, J.. "China and AIDS: The Time to Act is Now." Science 296. 5577 (2002): 2339-2340.
  • Rogers, SJ, Liu Y, Yan TX, Kee F, Kaufman, Joan. "Reaching and Identifying The STD/HIV Risk of Sex Workers in Beijing." AIDS Education and Prevention 14. 3 (2002): 217-227.
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Profile

Joan Kaufman is a Distinguished Scientist in the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Associate Director of the MS Program in International Health Policy and Management, and a Senior Lecturer in the Sustainable International Development Program. She serves as a staff consultant to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative as Team Leader for China. She holds a faculty appointment as Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is the founding Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Program previously based at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1996-2001 she was the Ford Foundation's Gender and Reproductive Health Program Officer for China. Previous positions include Lecturer on Population and Reproductive Health at Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Associate at Abt Associates Inc. and the first international UNFPA program officer for China from 1980-84. She holds a doctorate from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kaufman spent 2001-2002 as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and 2002-2003 as a visiting fellow in the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. She was a 2005 Soros Foundation Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow. Her research focuses on global health policy, social policies for AIDS, including mental health needs of AIDS orphans, gender and health, governance and accountability in health systems, civil society issues, and reproductive health and rights. She has published extensively about China's AIDS epidemic, reproductive health and family planning policy and program, SARS, health sector reform, and many other topics, including a recent co-edited book on "AIDS and Social Policies in China".

 

Degrees

Harvard University, School of Public Health
Sc.D.

University of California, Berkeley
M.A.

University of California, Berkeley
M.S.

Trinity C
B.A.

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow, Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship Program (2005 - 2006)
  • Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School (2002 - 2003)
  • Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University (2001 - 2002)
  • Associate, Health and Social Change Program, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK (2000)