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Judyth Twigg

Judyth Twigg, Ph.D.

Professor
jtwigg@vcu.edu
804.828.2076
827 West Franklin Street, Rm 316

Education

B.S. Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1984
M.A. Political Science and Soviet Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1986
Ph.D. Political Science and Security Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994

Specialization

Global health, with a particular focus on Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia; and program assessment/evaluation, especially in the areas of human development and public sector management.

Biography

Judy Twigg is a professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches courses on global health, international political economy, and Russian politics. She is also a senior associate with the Global Health Policy Center and Russia & Eurasia Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; consultant for the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank and the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the Inter-American Development Bank; adjunct professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies at Georgetown University; and member of the board of trustees of the Eurasia Foundation. She has been a consultant for the Kennan Institute, John Snow, Inc., UNICEF, the Social Science Research Council, and various U.S. government agencies.

Twigg's work focuses on issues of health, demographic change, and health systems reform in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. She also conducts program and project evaluations for development assistance efforts world-wide spanning human development and public sector management. She has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress and has been a member of several congressional and other U.S. government advisory groups on Russian affairs. She received the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia's Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005. Dr. Twigg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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