Elizabeth Reid, OA, FASSA
Visiting Fellow

Email: elizabeth.reid@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

In 2001 Elizabeth Reid, a development practitioner, feminist and academic with a distinguished career as a national and international public servant, joined the Gender Relations Centre as a Visiting Fellow. She has 30 years of professional development experience in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central America, Eastern Europe and the CIS States. Elizabeth continues with her development practice and is also Senior Adviser to the Collaboration for Health in Papua New Guinea, a Public-Private Partnership for Health. As part of her work with the Collaboration and the GRC, in 2002, Elizabeth convened and chaired an International Roundtable on Increasing Access to HIV Care and Treatment in Resource Poor Settings. The organisations Elizabeth consults with includes the UN System, where she is involved in capacity building for a unified UN System response to the HIV epidemic as well as national HIV policy development and implementation. Prior to joining the GRC Elizabeth had a long career with the UN, including milestones such as Founding Director of the UNDP HIV and Development Program in New York (1992-1997), Director of the UNDP Division for Women in Development (1989-1991) and Founding Director of the UN Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development in Tehran, Iran (1977-1979). Elizabeth was a global first when she became the adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia, the Right Hon. E.G. Whitlam QC, with responsibility for matters relating to the welfare of women and children.

Research Interests

Elizabeth is deeply committed to the principles of gender and equity and the strengthening of social and ethical capital. Her research interests and areas of expertise include the democratisation of access to HIV treatment, care and support; the articulation of social paradigms for understanding the HIV epidemic; developing an ethical response to the HIV epidemic; mainstreaming HIV and gender; capacity building approaches to development; community conscientisation and mobilisation; team building; as well as approaches to the design, implementation and evaluation of policies and programs.

Key Publications

Much of Elizabeth's work has been produced as a public servant, speech writer or consultant. Recent publications that are available include:

• Understanding HIV Mainstreaming. HIV Matters. ASHM Monograph, Vol. 1. Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Darlinghurst, 2006, 22-29.
• Transformational Development and the Wellbeing of Women. Development Bulletin 64:16-20, 2004.
• Respecting and Embracing Difference: Reflections on the Whitlam Governments. In J. Hocking and C. Lewis (eds) It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Circa/Melbourne Publishing Group, 71-95, 2003.

Career Highlights

Officer of the Order of Australia (2001); Citation, Centenary of Federation Honour Role of Women, Firsts and Founders (2001); Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1996); Leader of the Australian Delegation to the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, Mexico City (1975); B.Phil., Oxford (1970).