Helen C. Epstein (born 1961) is an American professor of human rights and public health whose work has centered on Uganda and East Africa, with a focus on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and social justice. She has conducted research for leading organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, and Human Rights Watch, and in 2003–2004 received a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Epstein later served as a visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She is the author of two books and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, with additional writing published in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement, The Lancet, and Granta Magazine, among others.