Dr. Yusra Shawar

28 May 2021

Dr. Yusra Shawar

Yusra Shawar, MPH PhD is an Assistant Scientist in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and holds a joint appointment at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her research concerns the global governance of health and the politics of health policy processes. Her research has been funded by Save the Children, the Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Stanford University, USAID, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Elevate Children Funders Group, and Oak Foundation. Her work has been published in multiple journals including the Lancet, Lancet Global Health, Health Policy and Planning, and the Journal of Global Health. She has been involved in two Lancet series concerning early childhood development and gender norms and equality in global health, as well as a WHO-UNICEF-Lancet commission on child wellbeing. She is the policy process section editor at Health Policy and Planning. She received her undergraduate and MPH degrees from the University of Virginia, her doctorate from the Department of Public Administration and Public Policy at American University, and she was a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.