Lori DiPrete Brown is the Assistant Director of the UW-Madison Center for Global Health. She facilitates global health education, faculty and student exchanges, and partnerships between UW and universities in other countries. She began her study of Public Health as and undergraduate at Yale University, and, after a tour with the Peace Corps in Honduras (1983-1985), she pursued graduate studies at the Harvard School of Public Health (1988), where she focused on international health policy and management, and the Harvard Divinity School (1988) where she focused on world religions and their relationships to movements for social justice. From 1987-1990 she worked at Harvard University's Institute for International Development where she coordinated the women in development program and conducted research in quality assurance in Costa Rica and Cameroon. Subsequently she joined University Research Corporation/Center for Human Services in Bethesda, Maryland. At URC she continued working in international quality assurance through USAID's global Quality Assurance Project, which was implemented in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. In addition to serving as Deputy Director of the Quality Assurance Project from 1991-1994, she led a team that collaborated with the government of Chile in the development of a national QA program. She also conducted quality-related operations research and training in Ecuador, Guatemala, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh and Senegal. She has published articles and monographs on quality assurance methods and programs in English, Spanish, French and Arabic. Her more recent work includes collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization on the development of a framework that explores the role of Quality Assurance in Health Sector Reform (2005) and a strategy paper for USAID which explores the development of standards for quality in the design and delivery of programs for AIDS orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Africa (2008). The QA strategy for OVC care is now being implemented in 15 countries in Africa. Her current field work and research interests relate to interdisciplinary community-led efforts at improving health and well being. She approaches this application of public health principles from a human rights perspective.