Anja Rudiger

Human Right to Health Program Director

Anja Rudiger works with organizations and advocates to develop human rights approaches, analyses and tools for health care reform in the United States. She has extensive experience in promoting a rights-based approach to policymaking at local, national, and international levels. In addition to various consultancy assignments, her previous roles include directing the research department at the British Refugee Council, managing the UK Secretariat of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, and leading a small gender & development consulting organization, all based in London, UK. Ms. Rudiger has a range of academic and policy publications (most recently, chapters in Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health, eds. Beracochea et al.; and in Where Do We Go From Here? American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination, ed. Major) and holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Kiel in Germany.