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Susan Crane
International Health Research Programme Director
UCL Institute for Global Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2383
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
s.crane@ucl.ac.uk
Expertise: Sexual and reproductive health, organisational
management, NGO development, fundraising, project planning and in-country
implementation.
Biography: Susan Crane has a BA Hons in Women’s Studies from the University of
Massachusetts. After early work with the International Planned Parenthood
Federation (UK) and Family Health International (US), Susan co-founded the
sexual and reproductive health NGO International Family Health in London in
1991. She was Executive Director for more than 10 years, and was directly
involved in fundraising for and managing HIV/AIDS prevention and safe abortion
programmes in Africa, Asia and the Russian Federation. Susan has been Chair of
the UK SRH Network and EuroNGOs (the European SRH network), she is an
experienced public speaker, she has been a reviewer for numerous medical
publications, and has co-authored several academic publications. Between
2004-2009 Susan worked as a freelance consultant for a variety of international
organisations and was Director of Operations for Women’s Health Concern, a UK
women’s health advice service. In her current role, Susan is responsible for
facilitating and securing new research grants and for managing existing
multi-country research programmes in a variety of global health fields, with an
emphasis on encouraging collaboration between health and humanities
disciplines.
