Jeannie Annan is the Senior Director of Research and Evaluation for an international humanitarian organization, the International Rescue Committee: a global leader in emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy. She is also a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Her work aims to improve humanitarian policy and programs through rigorous research, and much of her current work develops and evaluates programs that prevent and respond to violence.
Her research focuses on sexual and gender based violence against women, children and youth in armed conflict, and psychosocial programs for victims of wartime and sexual violence.