Crisis Response Must Take Gender into Account
We cannot overlook the impacts of pandemics, armed conflict, and climate change on women and children, Tufts expert says
Growing up with feminist parents active in social justice, Dyan Mazurana, a research professor at The Fletcher School and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, has pondered the intersections of gender, race, age, ability, disability, and sexuality for most of her life. Since her early days as an undergraduate through to her time now as a Tufts professor, she has focused on understanding, preventing and responding to violence against women and children.