Uliana Poltavets currently serves as the Ukraine Emergency Response Coordinator at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). In her role, Uliana focuses on documenting attacks on health care in Ukraine since the onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Prior to joining PHR, Poltavets spent over a decade advancing the development of Ukrainian civil society and building local leadership networks. Her work encompassed a broad spectrum of issues, including human rights advocacy, civic and political education, and public ethics and institutions, in a range of projects with the Council of Europe, Democracy Reporting International and other local and international organizations.
Poltavets holds a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from Leiden University in the Netherlands and speaks English, Ukrainian, Russian, French, and Dutch.