Terry M. McGovern

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McGovern interviewed on The Laura Flanders Show in March 2020

Terry M. McGovern is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy in New York City. McGovern is also Professor of Health Policy and Management.[1]

Until 2023, she was the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Since 2018, she has served as director of the Department's Program on Global Health Justice and Governance. Before joining the Mailman School, in 1989 McGovern founded the HIV Law Project and served as the Executive Director until 1999.[2] While at the HIV Law Project, Terry McGovern litigated the groundbreaking case, S.P. v. Sullivan, which led to the Social Security Administration including HIV-related disability in their criteria.[3] She was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development.[4]

Early life[edit]

McGovern was born in the Bronx, New York.

Education[edit]

McGovern graduated Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York in Albany New York, in 1983. She received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986.[5]

Career[edit]

McGovern is known for her leadership as a health and human rights scholar addressing a number of issues including LGBT equality, environmental justice, sexual and reproductive health, and overall health outcomes for low-income women. Her legal work tackling health inequalities for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City, specifically women of color with HIV has led to numerous testimonials before Congress and other policy-makers. Her research focuses on health and human rights, sexual and reproductive rights and health, gender justice, and environmental justice, with publications appearing in journals including Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Health and Human Rights, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.[6][7] She has authored various publications and research articles challenging discriminatory norms.[8][9]

From 2006-2012, McGovern was Senior Program Officer for Human Rights, HIV/AIDS, Gender Rights and Equality at the Ford Foundation.[10][11][12]

In 2017, she published an article with colleagues Johanna Fine, a human rights lawyer formerly with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Carolyn Crisp, and Emily Battistini, both Alumni from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The article demonstrated that Sustainable Development Goals have the potential to generate action and accountability to end the HIV epidemic among women and girls.[13] In 2019, she published a study that examined the association between legal systems and health disparities in women and girls in Nigeria.[14]

McGovern's mother, Ann McGovern, was killed in the September 11 attacks. McGovern founded a group called 9/11 Families for Human Rights and was an advocate for accountability and transparency from the US Government in the September 11 Commission.

In 2007, a play she created based on interviews with family members of September 11 victims called "9/11: Voices Unheard," which was produced in collaboration with the Irondale Ensemble Project at the Theater for the New City. She later organized other 9/11 families to protest the “Muslim Ban” and has spoken out extensively in the exploitation of the September 11 attacks to justify xenophobia and discrimination.

Since 2020, McGovern is a member on the Council of Foreign Relations.[15]

In 2022, McGovern was the recipient of the Dean's Excellence in Leadership Award at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[16]

As of 2023, McGovern serves on the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, and the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference Group. She currently serves on the UNFPA Global Advisory Council.[17] She serves on the Board of the NYCLU.[18]

In 2023, McGovern spearheaded the launch of the first endowed professorship in sexual and reproductive justice in the United States.[19] In December 2023, the announcement of the professorship was launched with a panel discussion on the state of reproductive health moderated by Byllye Avery and Chelsea Clinton.[20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Terry McGovern". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  2. ^ "Appointment of Terry McGovern as Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. ^ "Nothing Without Us documentary advocates". womanatthereel.com/the-advocates/. 19 March 2015.
  4. ^ Richardson, Lynda (2004-04-15). "PUBLIC LIVES; Activist Regaining Her Stride After 9/11 Loss". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. ^ "Out (of Ireland) and Proud – An Irishman's Diary about Terry McGovern". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  6. ^ Santelli, J., Spindler, E., Moore, E., & McGovern, T. (2019). Criminalising sexuality or preventing child marriage: legal interventions and girls’ empowerment. Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 3(4): 206-208.
  7. ^ 1.     Mokdad A.H., Forouzanfar, M. H., and Daoud, F., [et al., including McGovern, T.] (2018). Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. The Lancet, 387(10036), 2383-2401.
  8. ^ "Terry McGovern | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health". www.mailman.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  9. ^ "amfAR 2005 Awards of Courage | amfAR". www.amfar.org.
  10. ^ "Terry McGovern | The BMJ". www.bmj.com. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  11. ^ "Terry McGovern | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  12. ^ "Ford Foundation initiative to tackle HIV crisis in United States". Ford Foundation. 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  13. ^ McGovern, Terry; Fine, Johanna; Crisp, Carolyn; Battistini, Emily (December 2017). "As the HIV Epidemic among Young Women Grows, Can We Look to the SDGs to Reverse the Trend?". Health and Human Rights. 19 (2): 223–236. PMC 5739372. PMID 29302178.
  14. ^ McGovern, Terry (March 2018). "Association between plural legal systems and sexual and reproductive health outcomes for women and girls in northern Nigeria: a regional and state-level ecological study from 1990 to 2013". The Lancet Global Health. 6: S4. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30133-5. ISSN 2214-109X.
  15. ^ "Council on Foreign Relations". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  16. ^ "Dean's Awards". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 2015-05-28. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  17. ^ NYC, Ethical (2023-12-03). "Terry McGovern: The State of Reproductive Rights in The United States After Dobbs | The New York Society for Ethical Culture". Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  18. ^ "Board of Directors | New York Civil Liberties Union | ACLU of New York". www.nyclu.org. 2006-12-30. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  19. ^ admin. "CUNY SPH Foundation". CUNY SPH Foundation. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  20. ^ "CUNY SPH launches the Byllye Avery Endowed Professorship in Sexual and Reproductive Justice". CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
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