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Christine Barrow

Christine Barrow

Christine Barrow is Professor Emerita and, until retirement, was Professor of Social Development at the Cave Hill Campus, The UWI. She received a BA (Hons) and a DPhil in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She has over forty years of experience as an academic researcher, lecturer and administrator at The UWI where she served as Head of Department, Deputy Dean and Deputy Principal. She was also Coordinator of the Women and Development Studies Group and Chair of the campus HIV &AIDS Response Programme (UWIHARP). Her publications include 11 authored and edited books and monographs, over 30 articles in peer reviewed journals and several reports. They focus on poverty and social exclusion, gender and family with specific reference to child rights and development, HIV &AIDS, sexual and reproductive rights and gender-based violence. She has conducted consultancies for several regional and international agencies and served on many public service organizations, local and regional. She was a Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) (2014-17).