HAREYA FASSIL, PhD
Hareya Fassil holds a PhD in International Development Studies from the University of Oxford (2003) and a MPH from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked and studied in several countries, including her native Ethiopia, Italy, Malawi, Switzerland, the UK and the US, in pursuit of a interdisciplinary career involving research and policy analysis in the interrelated fields of global health and the role of indigenous knowledge in rural development, with a particular focus on Africa.
At present, Dr. Fassil holds a Congressional Fellowship focusing on African Affairs and Global Health issues in the US House of Representatives.
Here at GW, she is currently teaching a graduate seminar course entitled “Indigenous Knowledge & Development in the Anthropology Department. Dr. Fassil was also recently appointed Adjunct Assist. Professor at the Elliott School in International Affairs where she will be teaching a course entitled “Culture, Health, Development and Policy in sub-Saharan Africa in Spring 2007.
