Anju Malhotra

Dr. Malhotra is Principal Visiting Fellow at the UN University International Institute of Global Health (UNU-IIGH) and a core team member of the Gender and Health Policy Hub. Until recently, she served as Principal Advisor, Gender and Development at UNICEF where she led two rounds of UNICEF’s Gender Action Plan (GAP), focusing on maternal health and the empowerment of adolescent girls through education, skills, health, nutrition, and reductions in child marriage and gender-based violence. She has been a leader in shaping the SDG target and global movement to end child marriage as well as in establishing the global program to end child marriage. Previously, Malhotra served at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) for 14 years, where she led a number of programs and impact evaluations of adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs, the keynote paper for the landmark 2007 Women Deliver conference, and the “Fertility and Empowerment Network.” She began her career as Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland and NIH Post-doctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Michigan.