MIT World Speakers

Barbara Stocking

Barbara Stocking received an M.Sc. in reproductive physiology from the University of Wisconsin. She was a research fellow from 1974-78 at the Nuffield Trust and University of Sussex. She worked at the World Health Organization from 1979-81, and became a senior fellow at the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1981. She spent the next decade working for regional and national health services, and became director of Oxfam Britain in 2001.