Judyth Twigg

Judyth Twigg is professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She is also currently serving as a senior associate (nonresident) with the Russia and Eurasia Program and Global Health Policy Center at CSIS, adjunct professor at the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies at Georgetown University, and consultant to the World Bank, John Snow, Inc., and the U.S. federal government. She has also been a senior adviser/consultant to the Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council, UNICEF, and other agencies. Her work focuses on issues of health, demographic change, and health systems reform in Russia and Ukraine, as well as evaluations of health reform and communicable disease control projects across the former Soviet Union, sub-Saharan Africa, and other parts of the world. She chaired the Public Health Working Group of the Civil Society Summit that took place during the Obama-Medvedev presidential summit in Moscow in July 2009, as well as its follow-on activities through the U.S.-Russia Social Expertise Exchange. She has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress and has been a member of several congressional and other U.S. government advisory groups on Russian affairs. She was one of 12 recipients of the 2005 State Council on Higher Education in Virginia’s Distinguished Faculty Award. She holds a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.A. in political science and Soviet studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in political science and security studies from MIT.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: The Bumpy Ride of U.S. Colleges and Universities
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison , H. Andrew Schwartz , and Judyth Twigg — September 29, 2020

Online Event: The Scramble for a Vaccine: Putin's Sputnik V— "Trust me!"
Event by J. Stephen Morrison , Judyth Twigg , Heather A. Conley , and Vasily Vlassov — September 2, 2020

Trump and Putin's Pandemic Duet: Trump's America Is Far More out of Tune
Commentary by Judyth Twigg and J. Stephen Morrison — August 21, 2020

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Putin’s Sputnik V Vaccine —“Trust us!”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Judyth Twigg — August 14, 2020

A Turning Point for Russia and HIV?
Commentary by Judyth Twigg and Michael Rendelman — March 11, 2020

Putin and Global Health: Friend or Foe?
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Judyth Twigg — October 2, 2019

Putin and Global Health: Friend or Foe?
Brief by J. Stephen Morrison and Judyth Twigg — September 6, 2019

Of Post-Soviet Demographics– Russian Roulette Episode #38
Podcast Episode by Jeffrey Mankoff and Judyth Twigg — September 11, 2017

Ukraine’s Health Sector
Report by Judyth Twigg — August 18, 2017

Polio in Ukraine
Report by Judyth Twigg — March 30, 2016
