Profile

Currently, Ms. Abdulkadir is a Research Analyst at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s WHO Collaborating Centre on chronic disease prevention policy.

Fowsia Abdulkadir has more than two decades of work experience in Canadian public policy analysis, and worked in various capacities managing files in the areas of program and policy evaluation; performance measurement; results monitoring and tracking systems; and knowledge exchange and translation.

Ms. Abdulkadir is an independent researcher; and human rights activist. Her research interests span the international and Canadian national arenas. In the international context, her research interests are in the areas of conflict analysis; transitional justice or post conflict justice mechanisms; gender mainstreaming, and the role of women in governance, democratization and conflict resolution in the Horn of Africa. Current research projects include transitional justice in the context of Somalia’s failed statehood and the current transformation in Ethiopia. In the Canadian national context, her research interests are in Canadian social policy analysis and public sector accountability.

Education

Ms. Abdulkadir has a Master’s Degree in Social Work (M.S.W), from Carleton University, Canada, with concentration in Canadian Public Policy, Political Economy, and Gender & Women Studies. Ms. Abdulkadir holds two undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W) from Carleton University, B.A. in Economics with a Political Science minor from Aligarh Muslim University, India; as well as a graduate Certificate of Teaching English as a Second Language (CTESL) from Carleton University.