Child
Ziba Vaghri, child health scholar
The Ring
An academic leader in global child health and human rights research, who is developing a child rights global monitoring platform that will be tested in New Brunswick, the Northwest
Territories and BC, has joined UVic as a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar. Dr. Ziba Vaghri, of the School of Public Health and Social Policy, has more than 15 years of
extensive research, international experience, significant awards, and a global network of researchers and practitioners all set on creating a seamless UN-endorsed, rights-based system to
measure global child health and development. Vaghri’s current work plan could position BC and Canada as leaders in global child health and human rights research. For the past eight years,
Vaghri worked with a team of experts serving the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC). They developed a monitoring tool for children younger than nine and led pilot tests in
Tanzania, Chile, and will soon do the same in Canada.