khushbu

Name

Khushbu Srivastava

Organization/Company

International Women's Health Coalition
Specialty: Asia

About Me

Since January 2009, Khushbu has led IWHC's program in Asia, which works with key organizations who engage at the policy level on sexual, reproductive, and youth rights in their countries and region-wide. Khushbu brings a strong commitment to engaging communities at the policy level to enhance choice as a fundamental political right of all women, men, and children.

She has eight years of experience working in ten countries across Asia and Africa.  Before joining IWHC, she served as a consultant for the United Nations Population Fund, where she led a 36-country project to enhance reproductive health aspects of global humanitarian response, focusing on gender-based violence.  Prior to that, Khushbu worked for CARE International to empower grassroots communities to address the root causes of violence at the national and regional levels in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.  She has also lived in India, working with CARE, the International Center for Research on Women, and leading independent research on the sustainability of sex workers' unions.  Khushbu completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley, and has a Masters of Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.  In addition to English, she speaks French and Hindi.