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Eirliani Abdul Rahman

Collaborative on Global Children's Issues

Eirliani Abdul Rahman is a former New America Open Technology Institute Fellow and P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Fund recipient, with a doctorate in public health from Harvard University. She is a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Technology and Democracy and a 2023 inaugural doctoral fellow at the University of Konstanz’s Centre for Human | Data | Society.

  • Member of the inaugural cohort of "Harvard Students in AI" program at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard Law School.
  • Recipient of the 2021 American Public Health Association's International Health Section Student Annual Meeting Grant, with additional fellowships and awards from Harvard University.
  • Founding member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, serving as an expert on child online safety since its inception in 2016.
  • Gained global recognition in December 2022 for resigning from Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council in protest against the rise in hate speech following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform; the council was dissolved four days later by Musk.
  • Her work has been featured by major media outlets including the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate, Harvard Public Health, the Sunday Times, and Business Insider.