Dr Claudia García-Moreno is a physician from Mexico with a Masters in community medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 25 years of experience in health care delivery, research and policy, working in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Claudia’s work focuses on sexual and reproductive health, women’s health and gender in health and she previously led the World Health Organization’s work on gender, women’s health, violence against women, and HIV/AIDS in women and girls, and was the coordinator of the Gender, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Health and Adolescence team in the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research. She also coordinated the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women, a large research initiative involving over 15 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Claudia is a founder of the SVRI and a member of the leadership council. She is also chair of the independent advisory board of What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls, is co-chair of the FIGO Working Group on Gender-based Violence, and previously chaired the steering committee of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.