Tamil Kendall (she/her) has more than twenty-five years’ experience working as a community-based and academic health researcher and policymaker focused on public health and human rights. She has worked with governments, the United Nations, universities, and local and international non-profit organizations. Tamil has a keen interest in how knowledge generation intersects with community mobilization and decision-making. She has led and supported community-based research that uses administrative data to monitor policy implementation, as well as a regional initiative that documented reproductive rights violations among women living with HIV as the foundation for public interest litigation in Latin America.
Dr. Kendall is the Director of the Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada, an alliance of Canada’s leading women’s health research institutes. She is also an adjunct professor at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, and a Research Associate with the BC Access to Justice Centre of Excellence (ACE), located at the University of Victoria. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication from Simon Fraser University and a doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Anthropology and Health Sciences) from the University of British Columbia. She completed her post-doctoral research fellowship (2013-2015) with the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health where she was also a Takemi Fellow in International Health.
