Nadine Flora Gasman Zylbermann (born 26 July 1957) is the president of the National Women's Institute of

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. She was the representative of

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in Brazil until February 2019.

Early life

Gasman was born in

. Gasman's education includes: * Doctor of Public Health from

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from

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(

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from

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and the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

Gasman holds both

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and

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nationalities.

Career

Gasman has worked in public policy to help women and promote

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and

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understanding for over 30 years. Nadine Gasman has worked in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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, and Mexico to address gender inequalities and

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, among other

violations. She also works with indigenous women, women of

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n descent, and young people. From 2005 to 2010 she was the representative in Guatemala of the

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(UNFPA). From 2010 to 2013, she was senior director in

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

and the

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for the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign organized by the UN Secretary-General. She represented

in Brazil from 2013, in which role she presented a set of goals such as the doubling female access to the Internet and challenged the Brazilian

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for declining to participate in the form. She advocates for expanded access to legal

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and helped strengthen 911 services to guard against an increase in

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during quarantines for the

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. She was the founder and general director of consulting company Latin American Health Group (), where she worked with organizations including the

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(WHO),

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(PAHO), the

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, and the aid agencies

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(USAID),

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(DANIDA), and

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(SIDA), and the

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. She is the president of the National Women's Institute of

, and she was the representative of

in Brazil until February 2019 when she was succeeded by Anastasia Divinskaya.

References

External links

Biography at the Government of Mexico
1957 births Living people Mexican women activists National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health alumni Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Mexican women physicians 21st-century Mexican women physicians 20th-century Mexican physicians 21st-century Mexican physicians {{Mexico-med-bio-stub