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Fellows: 2003-2004 | Fellows: 2005-2006

The Soros Reproductive Health, and Rights Fellowship Program at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, has closed. The program began in June, 2002 as a unique partnership between the Open Society Institute and Columbia University forged in the face of the twin challenges of a global landscape increasingly vulnerable to religious extremists opposed to women’s rights and a conservative political climate in the United States similarly hostile to long-established freedoms for women. The Soros Fellowship Program aimed to highlight progress achieved and obstacles encountered since the visionary United Nations agreements on human rights, population, development and women achieved with near universal consensus during the 1990s. It sought to foster creative thinking and provide policy makers with practical strategies.