Kyle Knight

Kyle worked at Human Rights Watch for 13 years, conducting dozens of field investigations on global health and LGBTQ rights issues. Prior to that, he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles, a strategy consultant for UNAIDS, and a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse in Nepal and for IRIN, the UN’s humanitarian news service, reporting from Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. 

• Policy advocacy
• Human rights

• Global Health
• Gender & Sexuality
• Social and Political Determinants of Health

• University of San Francisco, Master of Science in Nursing, 2026
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Master of Public Health, 2021
• Duke University, BA in Cultural Anthropology, 2008

• Adjunct Instructor, Columbia University Human Rights Institute 

• Streed, C. G., Jr., Knight, K., & Kimball, S. L. (2023). Sexual and gender minority refugees—Preparing clinicians for the international anti-LGBTQI+ crisis. New England Journal of Medicine, 389(9), 778–781.
• Knight, K., & Solomon, H. (2022, February 3). The dangers of confusing vaccine hesitancy with vaccine access. Think Global Health.
• Knight, K., Bleckner, J., Cameron, E., & Amon, J. J. (2022). Pandemic treaty should include reporting in prisons. Health and Human Rights Journal, 24(1), 117–119.
• Knight, K., et al. (2021, May 10). An international pandemic treaty must center on human rights. BMJ.
• Kashyap, A., Knight, K., & Wurth, M. (2021). COVID-19 exposes warped global health power. Business and Human Rights Journal, 6(3), 584–591.