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Trilingual (French, English and Arabic) graduate holds MSc in International Health (spe: Sexual and Reproductive Health). Experience in policy-making, partnership-building, research, fieldwork, psycho-social work and simultaneous interpretation. Previous experience working with refugees victims/survivors of SGBV (in Cairo, Egypt) and on migrants' health at the WHO (in Geneva). Job seeker (Geneva). |
 Contact Yasmine Kergoat
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy, Political
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Disaster, Aid, Emergencies, Relief
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Human Rights, Law, Migration, Conflicts, Justice
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
Worked alongside Dr. Daniel Lopez-Acuna, Director of the department of CCU and adviser to the Director General on migrants’ health issues resulting from the Global Consultation on Migrants’ Health held in Madrid, Spain in 2010 and in the follow up of the 2013 High Level Dialogue on Migration and the Post-2015 development agenda framework underway
• Assisted Dr. Daniel in all matters related to his work on migration within the Global Migration Group (GMG) and the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) strengthening WHO's role in highlighting the inclusion of migrants' social protection, rights and access to healthcare in the global migration debate
• Attended and represented WHO at the GMG working level inter-agency meetings held bi-weekly in Geneva
• Drafted and delivered statements on behalf of the Director at several events (such as the Tripartite Meeting on Migration and Development and the GFMD 2013-2014 Fourth Government Preparatory Meeting round-tables)
• Contributed to the development of key-messages and joint-papers on migrants' health, in coordination the International Organization for Migration (IOM), for wide distribution at GFMD meetings
• Followed up closely on all events, high-level meetings and conferences on migration taking place in Geneva and regularly briefed the director on most-up-to-date thematic issues, positions held and resolutions
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Education: |
Masters of Science: International Health “TropEd” - Specialization: Sexual and Reproductive Health - 2013
The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in cooperation with the VU University – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Period: April-September 2013 for thesis writing
• Thesis topic: “The Egyptian Health System’s Response to Refugees and Migrants in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
Received supervision from KIT for undergoing extensive fieldwork in Cairo identifying how the Egyptian health system is responding to the healthcare needs of a growing refugee and migrant population in a post-revolutionary era, the observable gaps at each level of the health system and recommendations on how to tackle these in the long run.
The Institute of International Health and Development (IIHD) at Queen Margaret University – Edinburgh, Scotland
• Period: September 2012-March 2013
• Core and Advanced Modules: Global Health and Social Policy, Researching Global Health and Development, Health
Systems, International Public Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender, Health and Development, HIV and
Development, Health Economics)
Bachelor of Arts; Major: Anthropology – Minor: Economics - 2010
The American University in Cairo (AUC)
• Period: 2005-February 2010
• Courses: Contemporary Anthropological Theory; Fieldwork Methods, Paricipatory Action Research in Community Settings; Gender, Society and Social Change; Gender and Reproductive Health; Health Equity and Reproductive Health in the Arab Countries: From Research to Policy; Social Movements; History Production and Memory; People and Cultures of the Middle East and Africa; Arab Society; Race, Ethnicity and Minority Relations; Third World Development; Economic Development; Economic History; Business and Politics: A Research Seminar on Public Policy and Enterprise in Egypt
• Thesis Topic: “The Cosmopolitan Character of the Naqshabandi Haqqani Sufi Order and its Implications on the Disciples”
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America
• Summer Course – Period: June-August 2008
Lycée Français du Caire – Cairo, Egypt - 2005
French Baccalauréat, Serie ES (Sciences Economiques et Sociales)
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
• Presented Master’s thesis: "The Egyptian Health System's Response to Refugees and Migrants in Post-Revolutionary Egypt" at the 5th European Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health, Granada's School of Public Health, April 11th 2014
• Erasmus Mundus TropEd Masters Programme – Alumni and Ambassador for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, 2013/2014 academic year
• Erasmus Mundus Full Scholarship Award, "TropEd" MSc in International Health, 2012/2013 academic year?
• Santander Community Award; chosen charity organization: AMERA, 2012/2013 academic year
• Class President, The Institute of International Health and Development (IIHD), September 2012-March 2013
• Hewlett Foundation Scholarship Award, specialist workshop on "Health Equity and Reproductive Health: From
Research to Policy", The Social Research Center of the AUC, December 2011-January 201
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Internships / Fellowships
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