Maggie Zraly
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Child Soldiers
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Healthcare Access/Health Systems Capacity
- HIV/AIDS
- LGBTQ
- Mental Illness
- Political Persecution
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Sexual Abuse/Assault
- Sufficiency Of Protection
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Maggie Zraly
Dr. Maggie Zraly is a medical and psychological anthropologist with extensive training in public health and mental health. Her research and practice have focused on conflict-affected populations, including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence/genocide-rape and GBV, youth heads of household, and children associated with armed forces and armed groups. Dr. Zraly conducted five years of in-depth fieldwork on the ground in Rwanda between 2003 and 2024. In 2016, she conducted short-term research in Afghanistan on human trafficking, and in 2017, she directed a center for mental health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She has completed short deployments for child protection and mental health support in emergency response, the longest of which was for 3 weeks in 2016 across Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia to assess the protection situation of forcibly displaced Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi children seeking asylum.
