Natalia Acevedo, LLM

  • Consultant for the Healthy Families Initiative, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University

Natalia Acevedo received her MA in Bioethics in 2021 with a thesis, A Defense of Physician Advocacy: Advocating for the Health of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States and Colombia. She serves as a consultant for the Healthy Families Initiative of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Having earned her Master’s in Law (LL.M) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with support from the Disability Rights Scholarship Program of Open Society Foundations. Natalia then received a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue her MA in Bioethics. Her research interests include international human rights law, disability rights and decision making, sexual and reproductive rights, and the right to health of historically discriminated populations. With experience working in research, advocacy and health rights training, she is interested in the link between human rights and health services provision, as well as educating doctors and health professionals in a human rights framework. She previously taught Global Health, Bioethics and Human Rights as a member of the Law Faculty of Universidad de los Andes and is an active member of Latinx Bioethics