Monette Zard is the Director of the Forced Migration and Health Program and Associate Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her work focuses at the intersection of the humanitarian, human rights and development sectors. She is an expert on global governance and accountability related to forced migration, specifically regarding the protection of rights and health of migrants. Monette served at the Ford Foundation in New York; the International Council on Human Rights Policy in Geneva, and at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington D.C.; and she has worked with The Brookings Institute, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has previously held positions at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) in New York.