# Susan Bissell

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**Susan Bissell** is Canadian academic and human rights advocate, working as a visiting scholar and senior fellow at the [FXB Centre for Health & Human Rights](/source/FXB_International#FXB_Center_for_Health_&_Human_Rights_at_Harvard_University), [T.H. Chan School of Public Health](/source/Harvard_T.H._Chan_School_of_Public_Health) of [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University).[1] Prior to this appointment, her thirty-year career with the [United Nations Children's Fund](/source/United_Nations_Children's_Fund) (UNICEF) was centered on protecting the rights, safety, and security of children throughout the world.

Bissell obtained her first two degrees from the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto), and her [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_philosophy) in [public health](/source/Public_health) and [medical anthropology](/source/Medical_anthropology) from the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne).[2] As an advocate for children, Bissell served as UNICEF's global lead on Child Protection, and was the founding director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children.

Bissell's current[when?] board memberships include Cure Violence Global, Global Child and the [FIFA](/source/FIFA) Human Rights Advisory Board. With an interest in documentary film-making, she collaborated with Trudie Styler and the Bangladeshi team of Catherine and Tareque Masud to produce A Kind of Childhood, for television and the [Human Rights Watch](/source/Human_Rights_Watch) Film Festival. Currently,[when?] Bissell is an Executive Producer of Running to Stand Still / Heart of the Matter,[clarification needed] focusing on [migration](/source/Human_migration) around the world, the exploitation of men, women and children, and the people on the front lines respecting their dignity and humanity.[3]

## Works

- Māsuda, Styler, Bissell, Tareque Masud, Catherine Masud, Trudie Styler, Shelley King, Māsuda, Kyātharina, Māsuda, Tāreka, Bissell, Susan, & Xingu Films, production company. (2002). A Kind of Childhood: Growing Up in Dhaka City [Video recording].

- Bissell, Susan (December 2015). ["Protecting children from all forms of violence"](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014521341500280X). *Child Abuse & Neglect*. **50**: 9–14. [doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.08.012](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.08.012)

- McClure, Craig; Chandler, Caitlin; Bissell, Susan (January 2015). ["Responses to HIV in sexually exploited children or adolescents who sell sex"](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014067361460979X). *The Lancet*. **385** (9963): 97–99. [doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60979-X](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60979-X)

- Reading, Richard; Bissell, Susan; Goldhagen, Jeffrey; Harwin, Judith; Masson, Judith; Moynihan, Sian; Parton, Nigel; Pais, Marta Santos; Thoburn, June; Webb, Elspeth (January 2009). ["Promotion of children's rights and prevention of child maltreatment"](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673608617092). *The Lancet*. **373** (9660): 332–343. [doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61709-2](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61709-2)

- Cappa, Claudia; Moneti, Francesca; Wardlaw, Tessa; Bissell, Susan (September 2013). ["Elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting"](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673613615329). *The Lancet*. **382** (9898): 1080–1081. [doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61532-9](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61532-9)

- Santos Pais, Marta & Bissell, Susan (February 2006). ["Overview and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child"](https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673606682676). *The Lancet*. **367** (9511): 689–690. [doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68267-6](https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68267-6)

- Bissell, Susan (June 2001). ["Young Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Raising the rights question"](http://link.springer.com/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241). *Development*. **44** (2): 75–80. [doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241](https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241). [ISSN 1011-6370](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1011-6370)

- AYNSLEY-GREEN, Albea; HALL, David; THOBURN, June; WEBB, Elspeth; READING, Richard; BISSELL, Susan; GOLDHAGEN, Jeffrey; HARWIN, Judith; MASSON, Judith; MOYNIHAN, Sian; PARTON, Nigel; SANTOS PAIS, Marta (2009). ["Promotion of children's rights and prevention of child maltreatment. Commentary"](https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=21021701). *Promotion of children's rights and prevention of child maltreatment. Commentary*. **373** (9660): 280–281, 332–343 [14 p.] [ISSN 0140-6736](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0140-6736)

- Bissell, Susan L. & Steven, David (2022-05-30), ["Founding the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children"](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003148371/chapters/10.4324/9781003148371-10), *Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance*, 1 ed., London: Routledge, pp. 167–186, [doi:10.4324/9781003148371-10](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148371-10). ISBN 978-1-003-14837-1, retrieved 2026-03-31

- Bissell, Susan; Manderson, Lenore; Allotey, Pascale (January 2000). ["In focus: Film, focus groups and working children in Bangladesh"](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2000.9966796). *Visual Anthropology*. **13** (2): 169–183. [doi:10.1080/08949468.2000.9966796](https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2000.9966796). [ISSN 0894-9468](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0894-9468)

- Poole, O., Bell, M., & Bissell, S. (2013). Hope comes to the heart of Africa/Disaster on a colossal scale - but as far as the media is concerned, it isn’t news/Unicef needs the help of states, communities - and people like you. Independent (London, England : 1986), 29–31.

- Hockings, P., Jhala, J., Mahias, M.-C., Jeffery, P., Jeffery, R., Bissell, S., Manderson, L., Allotey, P., & Maaker, E. de. (2000). Excursions with the camera in Hindustan. Visual Anthropology (Journal), 13(2), 99–198.

- Harcourt, W., Evans, J. L., Goonesekere, S., Cupples, J., Brown, J., Combes, B., Bosch, A., French, J., Antrobus, P., Jain, D., Thomson, M., Karlsson, L., Hammill, J., Bissell, S., Nyland, B., Johnson-Welch, C., Strickland, R., Kent, G., Ardaya, N. S., … Doe, S. S. J. (2001). Women’s rights and child rights. Development (Society for International Development), 44(2), 3–116.

- Bissell, Susan (June 2001). ["Young Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Raising the rights question"](http://link.springer.com/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241). *Development*. **44** (2): 75–80. [doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241](https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110241). [ISSN 1011-6370](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1011-6370)

## References

1. ["Susan Bissell"](https://fxb.harvard.edu/susan-bissell/). *FXB Center for Health and Human Rights*. 24 October 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

1. Susan Bissell (2000). ["Manufacturing childhood: the lives and livelihoods of children in Dhaka's slums"](https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/37814). *University of Melbourne*. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

1. ["Heart of the Matter Creative and Production Team"](https://www.heartomfilm.org/creative-team). *Heart of the Matter*. Retrieved June 11, 2020.

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