Join us for a Lalla Traoré lecture on "Youth Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Programs in Mali."

Dr. Lalla Fatoumata Traoré holds a MD from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Mali), a MPH from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium), and a PhD in public health from the Superior Institute in Training and Applied Research, University of Juridical Sciences and Politics (Mali). Early in her career, she worked as a primary care physician, before working for Mali’s National Health Department designing programs on reproductive health, tuberculosis treatment and prevention, and improving hospital performance. Dr. Traoré is currently a professor of public health at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (Mali). She is a specialist on reproductive health, adolescent sexuality, public health responses to sexual violence, and improving health facility quality. She has conducted public health research projects using quantitative and qualitative methods, including implementation research, in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Benin. She is originally from the town of Segou, Mali.

Co-Sponsored by Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Global Public and Environmental Health Program