Claudia Garcia-Moreno is a physician from Mexico with a Masters (MSc) in community medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked extensively in public health and global health policy, with a focus on women's health, including sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. She is currently in WHO’s Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) where she leads WHO’s work on violence against women. She coordinated the WHO Multi-Country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence, and the WHO global and regional estimates on violence against women, is a founder of, and chaired, the Sexual Violence Research Initiative