Ms. Tanya Wells Brown

Ms. Tanya Wells Brown serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Centre for Development in Social Justice (CDSJ) under the Technical and Thematic Advisory Support Portfolio and brings more than twenty-five years of international experience in global health, social work, safeguarding, gender-based violence prevention and response, child protection, and community-based protection systems.

She is a global health practitioner and social worker whose work has consistently advanced social justice, human rights, and ethical, survivor-centred approaches to strengthening institutional responses to violence, harm, and vulnerability across diverse country contexts. She is currently a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

She also holds postgraduate qualifications in Social Work from Oxford Brookes University, a Master's degree in Health Economics, Policy and Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Master's degree in International Public Health from Curtin University, and a Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy from Brunel University of London — reflecting an exceptional interdisciplinary foundation in public health, policy, protection, and frontline care.

Over the course of her career, she has held technical, research, advisory, and teaching roles with institutions including the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, the University of Essex, URC, UN Women, UNFPA, USAID, the World Bank, IFC, JSI, World Vision, and Population Services International, with particular depth in safeguarding, counter-trafficking, gender in health, violence against women and children, maternal and child health, disability inclusion, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.

Her portfolio includes technical leadership for gender and safeguarding assessments, research and evaluation on violence prevention and harmful practices, institutional capacity building for frontline actors, and the design of integrated service delivery approaches in countries such as Lesotho, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, and other global settings. At CDSJ, she strengthens the institution's technical quality, thematic credibility, and strategic ability to support high-impact, rights-based programming across Africa.