Suzanna Dennis, Research Associate

Suzanna Dennis joined PAI as a research associate in May, 2008. Her primary focus is strengthening and revamping our long-time work on financing population assistance and sexual and reproductive health services, including exploring emerging issues such as aid effectiveness and their impact on funding levels.  Suzanna’s professional background is in tracking development finance from a gender perspective, with a focus on multilateral banks such as the World Bank.  Prior to joining PAI, Suzanna was the Programs Coordinator at Gender Action, where she researched and wrote six reports, including one funded through a PAI subgrant examining the projects funded by the World Bank and other multilateral development banks for reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Suzanna earned a master's degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 2005.  She also holds a bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.