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Leith Dunn

Leith Dunn

Leith Dunn is Senior Lecturer and Head of the IGDS, Mona Unit. Her academic and professional career spans over 25 years of teaching, research, publishing and programming on a wide range of human development issues with gender as a cross-cutting theme. She has worked in areas including gender and development, sexual and reproductive health, gender and HIV/AIDS and gender and governance. She has also done research in labour, trade and social policy. Dr. Dunn previously worked with several regional and international development agencies including the United Nations, and has served the Commonwealth as an Advisor and Monitor for Tripartite Elections in Zimbabwe (2002) and Zambia (2006). She achieved her BA (honours) in languages and social sciences and her MA in sociology and social psychology at The UWI and then her Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science.