Beth Rivin
Professor Rivin directs the Global Health and Justice Project, a multidisciplinary project that is based at the UW School of Law. The project encompasses academic activities at UW as well as field activities in developing countries in collaboration with the Seattle-based NGO, Uplift International. She is a co-investigator on the Frameworks in Global Health grant project, funded by the Fogarty Center. Professor Rivin is also a co-investigator on a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "Mapping of Public Health Institutions: Country and Institutional Descriptions." Her professional experience ranges from clinical pediatrics and adolescent medicine to field research, epidemiology, and public health and human rights program development and evaluation. In addition to domestic work, Professor Rivin has field experience in Indonesia, China, Nepal, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Israel. She has consulted with Ministries of Health, large governmental and international organizations, such as U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Health Organization, and various non-governmental organizations.