Jocelyn Kelly, PhD

Jocelyn Kelly, PhD

Director, Gender, Rights and Resilience
Jocelyn Kelly, PhD
Dr. Jocelyn Kelly is the Director of the Gender, Rights and Resilience (GR2) program at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s (HHI). She designs and implements projects to examine issues relating to gender, peace, and security in fragile states. Dr. Kelly has been conducting health-related research using qualitative and quantitative research methods for over a decade in national and international settings. She has given briefings related to gender and security to the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. State Department, USAID, the World Bank, OFDA, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the U.S. Institute of Peace. Dr. Kelly’s work focuses on understanding and preventing gender-based violence and human trafficking in complex crises, with an emphasis on specially examining mechanisms for resilience in these settings. Dr. Kelly’s current research interests include: promoting and measuring GBV risk mitigation in humanitarian emergencies; understanding the continuum of GBV before during and after humanitarian crisis; and measuring and promoting social cohesion and community resilience as a pathway to reducing violence. Dr. Kelly has been committed to mentoring students from across the Harvard community since 2008 and considers the opportunity to collaborate with students one of the best parts of her work. She is a part-time assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Demography from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a Master's of Science in Population and International Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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