Adriana Kaplan Marcusán

Adriana Kaplan Marcusán (Buenos Aires, 19 December 1956) is an Argentine anthropologist and Director of the NGO Wassu Gambia Kafo (WGK) and the Wassu Foundation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is expert in sexual and reproductive health with a focus on the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Biography Adriana Kaplan Marcusán was born in Buenos Aires on 19 December 1956. She is a professor of Anthropology of Health at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Executive Director of the NGO Wassu Gambia Kafo and the Wassu Foundation of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and Director of the Chair Knowledge Transfer.

She has been working in the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau since 1989 studying sexual and reproductive health, focusing on the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM).

She leads the Transnational Observatory of Applied Research to New Strategies for the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) hosted by the Wassu-UAB Foundation, (5)?? with two research and training centres: in Spain, the Interdisciplinary Group for the Prevention and Study of Harmful Traditional Practices (IGPS/HTP) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology in the UAB; in The Gambia, the local NGO Wassu Gambia Kafo. Initiation without cutting (2004), that provides an alternative methodological proposal for the prevention of FGM, translated into five local languages, at the request of the Vice Presidency of The Gambia, Brufut Declaration (2009), and A future without mutilation (2013), which collects the testimonies of health professionals, students, traditional midwives, circumcisers, community and religious leaders. 2017 IV DKV Awards “Medicine & Solidarity: Award to the Trajectory, DKV.