School of Social and Political Science

Background

Khudejha Asghar is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, supporting the INTERRUPT_VIOLENCE study. She has over ten years of experience on preventing and responding to violence against women, children, and people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) in Colombia, DRC, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and the United States. She has worked with international non-governmental organizations, universities, and government agencies on program development and adaptation, research and impact evaluations, and strategy development. 

Khudejha's programming and implementation experience to date includes co-developing Culture of Respect's Core Blueprint to address sexual violence on university campuses in the United States; International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Safe at Home family violence prevention intervention for conflict-affected families in Myanmar and DRC; and virtual adaptation of a training of trainers for IRC's Engaging Men in Accountable Practice intervention for United Nations and community-based organization staff in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Khudejha's research experience includes several mixed-methods impact evaluations on programming to prevent gender-based violence and violence against children, evidence-driven conceptual frameworks and theories of change on family violence and reproductive coercion, landscaping and evidence reviews focused on the overlap of intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence against children (VAC), qualitative program adaptation research on gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH), and cognitive testing and measurement of VAC and family functioning. Her strategy development experience includes collaborative development of International Planned Parenthood Federation's strategy to address sexual and gender-based violence. She has a Master's in Public Health from Columbia University and just completed her PhD in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.