Jessica Ott
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Forced Marriage
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- Journalist Persecution
- LGBTQ
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
About Jessica Ott
Jessica Ott is an anthropologist and policy fellow whose research and publications have focused on gender, civil society, human rights, health equity, domestic work, and Islam. She has extensive research experience in Zanzibar and has also studied and worked for several years in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Dr. Ott most recently completed a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, during which she worked as a Human Rights Policy/Research Fellow in the State Department’s human rights bureau and as a Center for Global Health Studies Research Fellow at the NIH. Prior to that, she worked as an international health systems research scientist, specializing in gender and qualitative methods, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
