Alyssa Sharkey
Alyssa Sharkey is a lecturer in the School of Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University and has spent most of her career working with UNICEF as a health specialist as well as various academic, research and non-profit settings in the United States and overseas. Dr. Sharkey has a master of health science and a PhD, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a MS in medicine, from the University of Cape Town, in South Africa.
Gender
Outlasting the Taliban's Ban on Women's Medical Education
The education ban has kept new female talent from entering Afghanistan's under-resourced health-care sector
Poverty
Transitioning Afghanistan’s Health Sector: The Urgent Need for Taliban’s Responsibility
Moving from short-term donor funding to Taliban-supported lasting solutions