Dr Johanna Riha

CEFTUS Joint Forum ‘Kurds in Syria: From Denial Toward Self-ruled Governance Model’

Dr Johanna Riha is an epidemiologist and recently finished her PhD at the University of Cambridge. After completing a BSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Birmingham and an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine she worked as Lead of Information Management for the National Chlamydia Screening Programme at the Health Protection Agency, now Public Health England, in London. Johanna is Austrian and Tanzanian, grew up in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Ivory Coast, and now lives in the UK. Johanna was part of an academic delegation that visited Rojava, Syria in December 2014.