Sofia Gruskin is a scholar and advocate in the field of health and human rights whose contributions range from global policy to the grassroots level. For more than 25 years her work has been instrumental in developing the conceptual, methodological, and empirical links between health and human rights, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, child and adolescent health, gender-based violence, non-communicable disease, and health systems.[1] Currently, Gruskin is a professor at the Keck School of Medicine[2] and Gould School of Law[3] at the University of Southern California. Gruskin also directs the USC Institute for Global Health[4] as well as its Program on Global Health & Human Rights[5] and leads the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration[6] with fellow professors.[7]
Gruskin is the co-coordinator of the Rights Oriented Research and Education (RORE) Network in Sexual and Reproductive health, which is an international network of sexual and reproductive health and rights researchers and advocates,[8] as well as a member of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board.[9] She has served on many boards and committees for the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and other major players in global health.