
United States
Ford School's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
The Center for Global Health Equity
Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and social justice activist and the founder of the Health Justice Initiative (HJI). She is the former Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSF-SA), heading the Foundation for 6 years (mid-2013 - mid-2019). She has dedicated her professional life to defending and promoting human rights in South Africa, especially in the field of HIV/AIDS where she worked for the AIDS Law Project and also acted for the Treatment Action Campaign in many of its legal cases.