Aaron R. Schwid Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

*Collaborated with the world’s top experts on critical public health issues resulting in dozens of major policy wins, including emergency COVID-19 response; data collection, use, and privacy; police reform; and more.*Recruited, trained, and managed attorneys in low and middle-income countries, often under emergency conditions including disease outbreaks.

Washington D.C., USA

Promoted to lead the development of legal strategies for a new division focusing on global public health advocacy, replicating successful tactics from tobacco control. Built and nurtured a global network of skilled attorneys through personal mentorship, legal workshops, and hands-on technical assistance, enhancing global advocacy efforts.

Washington DC, USA

• Hired to provide legislative support to tobacco control campaigns in Russia, Ukraine, and Bangladesh. Assumed responsibility for additional countries and issues; initiated and designed legal and capacity-building.
• Guided development and implementation of country-specific legislative strategies that have resulted in comprehensive tobacco control laws in Bangladesh, Kosovo, Lebanon, Moldova, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, and.
• Served as official civil society delegate to successful negotiations for WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and Protocol to Eliminate All Forms of Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products.
• Directed strategy to carve-out tobacco from Transpacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements.
• Provided legal technical support, capacity building, training, and mentorship to more than 200 attorneys from 60 countries; developed curriculum and facilitated multiday legal trainings using interactive adult learning.
• Used “lessons learned” from tobacco control experience to create legal advocacy framework for major donor’s other public health initiatives.

Detroit, MI

• Advised major international NGO clients and partners on legal and regulatory strategy for public health and human rights campaigns.
• Redesigned the World Health Organization’s legal development and training program for civil society and government attorneys working on road safety initiatives.
• Devised and successfully implemented advocacy strategy that pressured the Prime Minister of Ukraine into suspending a World Trade Organization dispute against Australia.
• Created a step-by-step training tool for Bloomberg Philanthropies that teaches advocates to map political environments as a precursor to strategic planning for policy campaigns.
• Improved internet-based for legal resource hosted by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: www.tobaccocontrollaws.org; tripled monthly users with improved content, design, and presentation.
• Developed and proposed an advocacy framework, in collaboration with the Henry Ford Global Health Initiative, to ensure sustainable funding of innovative vaccination program in Southeast Asia.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Counseled Fortune 500 companies on novel issues of international trade, export control, antitrust, and competition law.
• Established a novel pro bono partnership with The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia to provide legal representation to low-income clients accused of violating conditions of their parole through.
• Managed multicity investigation of building developer suspected of systematic violations of Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility guidelines.
• Created document review protocol and trained hundreds of contract attorneys to analyze millions of confidential and privileged documents; negotiated disclosure agreements with Department of Justice and Federal Trade.
• Designed and populated internal firm database of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act rulings.

Katmandu, Nepal

• Promoted the inclusion of reproductive health, gender, and sexuality rights in the draft constitution; development advocacy materials targeted at the Constitutional Assembly.
• Placement sponsored by Law Students for Reproductive Justice and Center for Reproductive Rights.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Successfully litigated several parole revocation hearings and appeals on behalf of indigent clients.
• Interrogated voluntary and adverse witnesses; Investigated alleged crime scenes and evidence.

Greater Boston Area

• Researched and wrote memos on cutting-edge legal issues. Collaborated in national advocacy strategy.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Aided in the research, writing, and strategizing of appellate briefs for HIV+ clients.

Greater Boston Area

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Jd, Intl Human Rights Law

New College, Oxford, England, International Human Rights Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government

B.A., English, Politics, Creative Writing

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba