In September 2017, Tim Shand joined Equimundo as Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships. With over a decade of relevant experience, Tim will play a leading role in shaping the organization\u2019s policy advocacy, partnership development, and fundraising strategy moving forward.<\/p>\n
Originally from the UK, Tim joins the Washington, DC team with extensive leadership experience in programming, research, and advocacy to advance gender equality and social justice, particularly in the area of engaging men in advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be joining Equimundo. It\u2019s a critical moment for work on gender justice and social inequalities within the US and globally. As a son, father and husband, I believe passionately in the importance of this work. I have been a fan of Equimundo for many years, and am looking forward to contributing to its future growth and impact.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Prior to his role at Equimundo, Tim worked at Georgetown University\u2019s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) as the Deputy and Technical Director of a large USAID-funded project focusing on social norms change to promote adolescent well-being. Tim has previously served as Director of International Programs for the South African nongovernmental organization Sonke Gender Justice; and he has worked with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n \u201cTim has long been a leader in gender-transformative work in the public health field, from his work at Sonke Gender Justice, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and IRH. With his dedication to reproductive and sexual health and rights and to gender equality, we are honored to have him join the Equimundo team,\u201d said Gary Barker, President and CEO of Equimundo.<\/p>\n Tim has been published and spoken widely on issues of gender equality and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and he holds a Master\u2019s degree in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tim is currently completing his PhD at University College London\u2019s Institute for Global Health, where his research focused on men\u2019s SRH attitudes and practices in Malawi.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In September 2017, Tim Shand joined Equimundo as Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships. With over a decade of relevant experience, Tim will play a leading role<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[765],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-tim-shand","geography-global"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}