2.12 Constructing and Reconstructing Power

Qi Cui has over 18 years of experience as a senior professional in leading global health programs. She has especially worked to develop alliances with multi-sectoral partners to catalyze investment in health for higher impact and to identify and mitigate mission critical risks. She is currently the Senior Fund Portfolio Manager at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and focuses on managing a portfolio of infections disease resilience and health system strengthening programs in the Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand. Previously she served as Program Director at Marie Stopes International in China, where her work focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescents and young people as well as HIV/AID prevention. She speaks to us about working in China on taboo topics with stigmatized groups at a time when NGO’s where a new concept, her decision to pause her work in program implementation to get more training, her work at the Global Fund, actualizing country ownership and local governance structures, implementing robust and transparent financing measures, mutual accountability, promoting dialogue and public debate, gender discrimination, microaggressions, fluid power dynamics, gendered leadership stereotypes, measuring progress over time, the coronavirus pandemic, the need for common decency and much more. She joins us from Geneva, Switzerland.