Doris Bartel

Doris Bartel is the Senior Director of the Gender and Empowerment Unit at CARE USA and provides leadership and support for CARE’s contributions to meaningful progress on gender equality within CARE’s poverty reduction strategies. She has led research and programmatic initiatives on gender integration in health, economic development and HIV programming as well as programming to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. She co-chairs the Interagency Gender Working Group’s Gender-Based Violence Task Force led by USAID’s office of Population and Reproductive Health.

Doris is a certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of experience in community development, conflict mitigation and reproductive health and rights.