Joanne Csete
Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health

Email:  JC1188@columbia.edu

 

Joanne Csete, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the Law and Policy Program at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health.  The main focus of her research and teaching is health and human rights.  She was the founding director of the HIV/AIDS Program at Human Rights Watch and executive director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, an organization that conducts research and advocacy on HIV-related human rights issues.  She worked for UNICEF for over seven years, including as part of assessment and program teams in complex emergencies in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Haiti and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.  She previously taught in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the interdisciplinary doctoral program in International Development at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton, an MPH from Columbia, and a PhD in nutrition from Cornell University.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Csete J, Gathumbi A, Wolfe D and Cohen J.  Lives to save: PEPFAR, HIV and injecting drug use in Africa. Lancet 373: 2006-2007, 13 June 2009.

Csete J.  HIV/AIDS and security: the other side of the coin.  Lancet 369(9563): 720-721, 3 March 2007.

Csete J. The politics of HIV/AIDS and human rights. Development 47(2):48-56, June 2004.

Csete J.  Several for the price of one:  Right to AIDS treatment as link to other human rights.  Connecticut Journal of International Law 17:263-272, 2002.

Maxwell D, Levin C and Csete J.  Does urban agriculture help prevent malnutrition?  Evidence from Kampala.  Food Policy 23(5):411-424, 1998.

Barrett CB and Csete J.  Conceptualizing hunger in contemporary African policymaking:  From technical to community-based approaches.  Agriculture and Human Values 11(4):38-46, 1994.

Csete J.  Health-seeking behavior of Rwandan women.  Social Science and Medicine 37(11): 1285-1292, 1993.

Csete J.  Malnutrition and “nutrition engineering” in low-income countries:  A comment on Berg’s vision of the nutrition track record.  International Journal of Health Services, 23(3):607-614, 1993.