Avni Amin works at the WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research. She is the unit head for the Rights and Equality throughout the Life course team and leads WHO’s work on violence against women. Her primary focus has been to lead research on health sector interventions to address violence against women, support development of normative guidelines and tools and support countries – Ministries of Health – in the translation and uptake of the evidence and guidelines to strengthen health systems response to violence against women. She has also led research on masculinities in the context of sexual and reproductive health as a gender equality issue. Avni is a passionate feminist scientist with a fierce commitment to gender equality and women’s health. She has a PhD in International Health from the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. She is originally from India and considers herself as a global citizen.