Makleff Consulting 

Shelly Makleff is an applied researcher with global sexual and reproductive health expertise.  Her work spans topics including abortion, stigma, inequities in access to healthcare, intimate partner violence prevention, comprehensive sexuality education, the evaluation of gender-transformative programming, and gendered social norms.

 

She is currently a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Equity, School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her prior roles in Australia were as Senior Adviser Research and Translation at  Respect Victoria, and Research Fellow at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, where she remains an Adjunct Research Fellow. Previous, she spent 11 productive years working in evaluation and research at International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (now called Fos Feminista).

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For two decades, Shelly has collaborated on evaluation and research projects in partnership with non-governmental, community-based, government, and philanthropic partners globally. She has experience with qualitative and mixed methods research, theory of change development, and feminist and participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning practices.

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Shelly has a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, a Masters in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine exploring methodologies and approaches appropriate for the evaluation of social interventions.