Brian Root Email & Phone Number

Responsible for data analyses in Human Rights Watch reports. Write reports, op-eds, press releases, etc., which center on quantitative analysis of human rights issues. Design data visualization for research. In addition to statistical analyses, advise researchers and Program staff, providing guidance on quantitative data collection and training on statistics and research methodology.For list of articles and reports, see HRW.org bio.

Greater New York City Area

Conduct research documenting human rights violations. Utilize quantitative analyses and descriptive statistics to produce evidence of rights abuses. Advise researchers on research methodology and data analysis. Research areas include: Immigration Policy; Women's Rights; Children's Rights.

Greater New York City Area

Design, develop and implement the Academic Freedom Index (AFI). The AFI is a standards-based measurement tool that measures levels of academic freedom around the globe. It provides comparable spatial, temporal, and annual country-scores that make it a valuable tool to compare levels of academic freedom between countries and over time.

Greater New York City Area

Research Associate offering technical assistance to governments, operational agencies, and policymakers. Recent projects include co-authoring 150-page Feasibility Study for a Global Monitoring System for Attacks on Education (attacks on students, teachers, and education infrastructure in fragile and conflict zones). Produced typologies of attacks and responses to attacks, mapped current monitoring systems, identified monitoring data needs and methodologies. Generated prescriptive recommendations on how to strengthen the monitoring of attacks and build a monitoring information network.

Developed age-specific global estimates of the burden of malaria mortality and morbidity used by the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (WHO & UNICEF) and the Global Burden of Disease projects in their final 2005 estimates. Researched and authored 41-page report on determinants of insecticide-treated net use and gap between net ownership and use for the Alliance for Malaria Prevention. Presented findings at the International Federation of Red Cross in Geneva.

Fellowship advising Human Rights Watch on research methodology. Developed organization-wide protocols and training for writing methodology sections of Human Rights Watch reports. Devised internal strategies for HRW to monitor and evaluate research and impact.

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Kandy, Sri Lanka

Ph.D., International Development

Awarded March 22, 2012 Dissertation: Record Linkage in a Human Rights Analysis of U.S. Immigration Enforcement Data

Master Of Science, International Development

Bachelor Of Arts, Writing