Courtney Boudreau
Courtney Boudreau
biography:
Courtney Boudreau is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research interests are the prevention of sexual violence against children, gender, and social norms. Her dissertation is an assessment of the current state of the evidence on the prevention of sexual violence against children.
Since 2015, Courtney has worked in Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Pathfinder International, a sexual and reproductive health and rights NGO. In 2018, she took on the role of MEL Manager for the Act With Her project, which takes a holistic approach to support Ethiopian and Jordanian adolescents as they move into adulthood. Courtney leads the design and management of the project’s monitoring systems, aiming to better understand and respond to the needs of adolescents and their communities.
Prior to Pathfinder, Courtney spent four years conducting health research, including an inquiry into the contraceptive needs of female sex workers in Kigali, Rwanda, and an analysis of the correlates of disclosure of sexual violence among Kenyan youth. She holds an MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern University.
research interests:
Child protection; Gender;Adolescent and youth; Sexual and reproductive health
Proposed Dissertation Topic:
"Where Do We Go from Here? A Critical Examination of Understandings of Sexual Violence Against Children and its Prevention in LMICs"