Ana Cristina González Vélez

 

Asesora Regional en Políticas de Liderazgo y Participación Política, de la Oficina Regional de ONU Mujeres para las Américas y el Caribe | Regional Policy Advisor on Leadership and Political Participation at the UN Women Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Médica, máster en Investigación social en salud y Doctora en Bioética, Ética aplicada y Salud Colectiva. Investigadora, docente y experta internacional en el campo del derecho a la salud, la salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, y la igualdad de género. Fellow del programa LEAD sobre liderazgo de mujeres en la salud global en la Universidad de Harvard.

Ha sido asesora internacional para distintas agencias del sistema de Naciones Unidas (UNFPA, OMS, ONUMUJERES, CEPAL) y fue directora nacional de Salud Pública en Colombia. Durante varias décadas ha participado de diversos procesos intergubernamentales a nivel global y regional, en distintas calidades contribuyendo a la construcción de estándares en materia de igualdad de género en asuntos relativos a los derechos reproductivos, los cuidados y el liderazgo de las mujeres. Es cofundadora en Colombia y de la Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres, organización donde surge el Movimiento Causa Justa que llevo a Colombia a tener la regulación más garantista de América Latina y el Caribe en materia de aborto y por esta lucha fue reconocida por la revista TIME como una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo en el 2022. Es también cofundadora del Grupo Médico por el Derecho a Decidir y ha sido integrante de la Articulación Feminista Marcosur una corriente de pensamiento y acción política latinoamericana. Su último libro es “Conversaciones fuera de la Catedral: una historia del aborto en Colombia” con Laila Abu Shihab y Cristina Villlareal (Penguin, 2024). Ana Cristina es de nacionalidad Colombiana y residente legal en Uruguay.


A physician with a Master’s degree in Social Research in Health and a PhD in Bioethics, Applied Ethics, and Collective Health. She is a researcher, professor, and international expert in the fields of the right to health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender equality. She is a Fellow of Harvard University’s LEAD Fellowship program on women’s leadership in global health.

She has served as an international adviser to various United Nations agencies (UNFPA, WHO, UN Women, and ECLAC) and was Colombia’s National Director of Public Health. For several decades, she has participated in a range of global and regional intergovernmental processes in different capacities, contributing to the development of standards on gender equality in areas related to reproductive rights, care, and women’s leadership. She is a co-founder in Colombia of La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujeres (Roundtable for Women’s Life and Health), the organization from which the Causa Justa movement emerged. The movement helped bring about Colombia’s adoption of the most rights-protective abortion regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recognition of this work, TIME magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. She is also a co-founder of the Grupo Médico por el Derecho a Decidir (Medical Group for the Right to Decide) and has been a member of Articulación Feminista Marcosur, a Latin American feminist network and current of political thought and action. Her latest book is Conversaciones fuera de la Catedral: una historia del aborto en Colombia (Conversations Outside the Cathedral: A History of Abortion in Colombia), co-authored with Laila Abu Shihab and Cristina Villarreal (Penguin, 2024). Ana Cristina is a Colombian national and a legal resident of Uruguay.

 

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