Alessandra Guedes

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Alessandra Guedes is the manager for gender and development research at the UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti. Guedes has dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to promoting children’s and women’s rights and health, including working intensively to end violence against children and against women. Prior to joining UNICEF, Alessandra served as the WHO’s regional advisor for the Americas on family violence prevention (2009-2019) and as the co-chair of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative’s Leadership Council, a role she continues to occupy. Alessandra holds a MSc in public health for developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a MA in art therapy from the George Washington University.