Meredeth Turshen
Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Meredeth Turshen's research interests include international health and she specializes in public health policy. She has written three books, The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), all published by Rutgers University Press, and edited five others, Women and Health in Africa (Africa World Press, 1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (Greenwood, 1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books, 1998), which was translated into French (L’Harmattan, 2001), African Women's Health (Africa World Press, 2000) and The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (Zed Books, 2002). She serves as Political Co-Chair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, as Treasurer of the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, as contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.