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Ashley Fox is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and will receive her PhD in May 2009. Ashley’s areas of interest include the non-medical determinants of health in developing countries, the politics of public health policy-making, gender, sexuality & health and the macro-social determinants of HIV infection. Her past research focused on the intersections of gender-based violence and HIV infection in Southern Africa. Her dissertation is utilizing a multi-level model from sixteen Demographic and Health Surveys to assess the contextual effect of economic inequality on HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa and to explain the counterintuitive finding that richer rather than poorer individuals have higher HIV infection rates. Ashley’s dissertation has received two scholarships from the American Psychological Association for work on Health Disparities and the Robert K. Merton Award for Studies in the Relation between Social Theory and Public Policy from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy. Ashley has also worked on issues around global social justice- in particular how the right to development can be utilized as a legal mechanism to bring about a more just and equitable international economic order. Before coming to Columbia, Ashley worked as a Research Associate with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University.