Adriana Kaplan Marcusán

Among her publications are various articles, books and training guides and material. She also directed four documentaries Gambia: Ciclo vital y supervivencia (Gambia, life cycle and survival) (1991), 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.

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).

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).

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.