Nata Duvvury, co-author of the Global Fund study, is Director of the Gender, Violence and Rights Team at the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC, USA. Together with Carolyn Long and Helen Cornman, she wrote an earlier study entitled The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Strengthening Civil Society Participation and Gender Expertise.
Dr Duvvury leads the work of ICRW on governance, rights, and violence. Apart from the Global Fund study she has written A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Social and Economic Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women (ICRW, 2006) and recently edited a report on Property Ownership & Inheritance Rights of Women for Social Protection – The South Asia Experience (ICRW, 2006).