Jasmine Gideon is a multi-disciplinary social scientist with a MSc and PhD in Development Studies and is a Reader in Gender, Health and International Development at Birkbeck. Using a ‘gender lens’ her research work critiques mainstream analyses of the health sector which fail to take gender relations into account and has particularly focused on two key areas of work: the gendered implications of contemporary trends in privatisation of healthcare as well as the intersections of forced mobility and health. She has lived and worked in different parts of Latin America and the region remains the main focus of her academic work. She has worked with a range of organisations including PAHO, UN Women, Plan International as well as the UK Women’s Budget Group.