Articles Monica Malta

Born in Brazil, she overcame poverty and domestic violence to become a well known global health researcher. Trained at Johns Hopkins University, her interventions to decrease gender based violence were implemented in several low and middle income countries, reaching more than 10,000 persons so far, mostly female-identified persons.

In Brazil, her studies contributed to the Supreme Court decision to make homophobia and transphobia federal crimes similar to racism. Her findings about LGBTQ2S human rights violations in Latin America were presented in UN meetings and reports. During COVID-19 pandemic she developed interventions for women experiencing domestic violence. Since 2018 she relocated to Canada, where she already received the following awards: ‘Stars in Sexual and Reproductive Health’, by Grand Challenges Canada (2018); ‘Donald Wasylenki Award for Social Responsibility’ by the University of Toronto (2019) and ‘Gender Equality Award’ by the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health (2020).