PhD Research Student, Institute for International Health and Development

MA in Development Studies (POLIS, University of Leeds)

Doctorate degree in Linguistics (Kiev State Shevchenko University, Ukraine)

Graduate Degree in English and Spanish (Kiev State Shevchenko University, Ukraine)

Email: smcgill@qmu.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 131 474 0000

Areas of interest

• HIV/AIDS policy in post-communist states
• NGO development and capacity building
• gender issues in health policy

Biographical statement

A native of Ukraine, Svitlana McGill has training in social sciences and languages. A graduate of t he School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Leeds University (2002) and Kiev State Shevchenko University (1989), she has 20 years of experience in international development programmes with a focus on health policy, HIV/AIDS policy, strategic planning of HIV/AIDS programmes, reproductive policy, gender and development, non-government sector development. Svitlana was a British Council scholar in 1992 to attend a summer school on Gender and Globalisation at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has held a Fulbright International Scholarship to do a research project on the social and economic status of women in post-communist countries at the Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, USA. She was an International Fellow of the American Association of the University Women (1994-1995). Earlier, Svitlana has founded a Ukrainian Centre for Women’s Studies in Ukraine – the first non-governmental organisation in Ukraine specialising in advocacy research and training for women. The Centre developed important policy initiatives in Ukraine including preventing trafficking in women, women’s political leadership development, reproductive health issues in post-communist states, others.

Ms McGill has directed and consulted a number of donor projects aimed at fostering health policy and planning, capacity building, education and reform on development issues, managing and consulting international organizations, worked with DFID, CIDA, USAID, UNDP, UNAIDS and other donors. She has presented at numerous national, regional and international conferences with WHO, UNAIDS, World Bank, Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria. Svitlana has participated in the development of Ukraine’s proposals to the Global Fund on AIDS and TB.

Prior to coming to Queen Margaret, Svitlana has published of a Russian-language magazine “Contemporary Infections: Prevention, Diagnostics, and Control” in Kiev, Ukraine. The journal is disseminated among policy makers and development specialists in CIS. Svitlana maintains extensive networks of professional and academic contacts in UK and abroad.

Selected publications

• “Grants of the Global Fund as a Factor Influencing Policy on HIV/AIDS in Ukraine” (in Russian) – Russian Journal “AIDS, Cancer and Public Health”, BioMed Centre, St Petersburg University, Vol. 2, 2010, p. 7-12. Available at: http://www.aidsconference.spb.ru/articles/arcGivGIe.pdf
• “Evolution of Family Planning Policies of International Donors from the Developmental Perspective,” Dissertation for Masters Degree in Development Studies, University of Leeds, 2002
• “Civil Society without Political Influence,” Give and Take, ISAR, available at: http://www.isar.org/giveTake.php4 (Fall 2000, Vol. 3)
• “Women in Ukraine: Trends and Tendencies in the Labor Market,” Canadian Women’s Studies Magazine, Winter 1995, Volume 19, No. 1.
• “Grant Making in Ukraine: A Question of Access,” in “Initiatives,” World Learning, Inc., Spring/summer 1994.