DR. MILA ROSENTHAL is the Executive Director of HealthRight International, a global health and human right organization working to build lasting access to health for excluded communities around the world and at home in the United States. Mila joined HealthRight International with extensive experience in human rights advocacy, poverty alleviation, post-war reconstruction and development, most recently as Amnesty International USA’s Deputy Executive Director, Research and Policy.
   Previously, Mila lived and worked throughout East Asia. She served in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia and worked to build civil society there. She researched the lives of women workers in textile factories in Vietnam for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics. In Vietnam and Cambodia, she was an advisor on rights issues to organizations including UNICEF and the Netherlands Development Organization. She has written extensively about the social impact of globalization on women, and taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.