Anna Shapoval

Anna Shapoval has twenty seven years of professional experience in the field of public health, HIV/AIDS prevention, harm reduction and human rights.

She also has been working on care and support for vulnerable women, youth and at-risk children as well as capacity building/continuing adult education, non-profit management, and advanced qualitative research in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). She cooperated with  the Open Society Foundations, Medecins Sans Frontieres – Holland, the AIDS Foundation East-West, Doctors of the World USA, the World Bank, the EJAF, the GFATM, the APMG, MADRE Fund, and I-TECH of the University of Washington. Back in 1996, Anna volunteered for the first harm reduction program in Ukraine and started building her technical expertise in along with her life-long passion for social justice, gender equality, and human rights, particularly for key populations and most vulnerable communities. Anna holds a Master of Arts Degree from the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Pennsylvania, for which she received a 2003-2004 Fulbright Fellowship. She also obtained her Doctoral Degree in the Education Policy, Organization and Leadership with a concentration in Global Studies in Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023.