Ms. Myroslava Tataryn
Disability Rights Program Officer, International Human Rights Program, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund
Myroslava Tataryn has worked globally to ensure people with disabilities have access to health services and humanitarian assistance. Having a physical disability herself, she's familiar with daily prejudice and inequality. This has pushed her to transform her own experience of marginalisation and exclusion into a commitment to social justice and constructive work towards social change.
Media
Question 1: Why Is It Important for Us to Talk About AIDS and Disability Together?
The first in a series of short 2-3 minute videos, published in 2011 by AIDS-Free World. In this series Myroslava Tataryn answers 10 questions related to HIV and disability.
Creating a Landmine-Free World
The agenda on TVO, December 1, 2017Television
URL: https://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/creating-a-landmine-free-world
Myroslava represents Handicap International on a panel of 3 people (+ the journalist) marking the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Ottawa Treaty, banning the use of anti-personnel landmines.
We Have Our Eye On Myroslava Tataryn
Chatelaine, February 1, 2009Print
URL: https://pressgal.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/myroslava-tataryn.pdf
Helping the most vulnerable of Syria’s refugees: A salute to Myroslava Tataryn, working tirelessly with disabled and injured refugees streaming into Jordan from war-torn Syria
Livemint, September 19, 2015Print
A profile of Myroslava's work on the Syrian Crisis was as published in print and online editions of the Livemint magazine.
The rehabilitation response in Haiti: a systems evaluation approach
by Karl Blanchet and Myroslava Tataryn
Published by Humanitarian Exchange Magazine
May 1, 2014
URL: https://odihpn.org/magazine/the-rehabilitation-response-in-haiti-a-systems-evaluation-approach/
My ‘disability and development’ journey: reflections
by Myroslava Tataryn
Published by Disability and the Global South
January 1, 2014
Based on a keynote address given at the "Disability and the Majority World" conference in Manchester, July, 2011
URL: https://disabilityglobalsouth.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dgs-01-01-09.pdf
Skin, Tooth, and Bone – The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer
by Myroslava Tataryn
Published by Reproductive Health Matters
July 5, 2017
Book Review
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09688080.2017.1335999
Childhood disability in Malawi: a population based assessment using the key informant method
by Myroslava Tataryn, Sarah Polack, Linda Chokotho,2 Wakisa Mulwafu, Petros Kayange, Lena Morgon Banks, Christiane Noe, Chris Lavy, and Hannah Kuper
Published by BMJ Paediatrics
Myroslava Tataryn is cited as first author of this article published following the completion of the research she conducted in Malawi in 2013.
Childhood disability in Malawi: a population based assessment using the key informant method
Published by BMJ Paediatrics
November 28, 2017
Myroslava Tataryn is cited as first author of this article published following the completion of the research she conducted in Malawi in 2013.
Biography
Myroslava Tataryn has dedicated 13 years of her work-life to ensure access to health services and humanitarian assistance for people with disabilities worldwide. In the initial years of her career, Tataryn's work focused on profiling the need for disabled women to have better access to sexual and reproductive health services, as well as work squarely at the intersection of disability rights and the AIDS pandemic, first in South Africa (2005-06) and then Uganda (2008-09).
Five years after completing her undergraduate studies at Queen’s University in Canada, Tataryn returned to academic work in order to complete her Masters of Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. Subsequent positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) saw her evaluating post-earthquake rehabilitation interventions in Haiti (2011) and managing a paediatric disability prevalence study in Malawi (2013). More recent work with Handicap International in Ethiopia (2014), and Jordan and Lebanon (2015-16) applies her technical and advocacy experience to the humanitarian sector.
Tataryn regularly facilitates training on inclusion for NGOs and UN agencies, and is a sought-after presenter on current issues related to disabled peoples’ marginalization in contexts of crisis and displacement.
After over 8 years living and working overseas, she returned to Canada in 2016 and continues her work with HI as Institutional Partnerships Manager from her base in Ottawa.
Past Talks
Panel Discussion on Disabilities - 14th Meeting, 31st Regular Session Human Rights Council
http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rights-council/regular-sessions/31st-session/watch/panel-discussion-on-disabilities-14th-meeting-31st-regular-session-human-rights-council/4786017143001
UN Human Rights Council, March 4, 2016