Paula Byron, MA, is the Communications Director for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Byron has spent most of her communications career in the fields of medicine, public health, and human rights. Most recently she worked at Virginia Tech, first as communications director for a startup medical school and biomedical research institute, then as senior editor for the liberal arts college. For the previous dozen years, she was editor of Harvard Medical School’s magazine. Before that, she served as director of communications for what was then the Harvard AIDS Institute, an initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health.

One of Byron’s principal specialties is publications. In addition to editing Harvard Medicine, she has served as editor of an annual magazine at Virginia Tech, the biannual magazine of a regional health system, a publication focused on the environmental causes of breast cancer, the daily newspaper for an AIDS in Africa conference in Senegal, and a range of publications for the AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, the Reebok Human Rights Awards Program, and the Harvard AIDS Institute. Byron has also edited three books on AIDS in Africa and coauthored a book on human rights heroes around the world.

Byron earned her bachelor’s in English at Williams College and her master’s in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.