Academic Staff

Tiko Tsomaia (MD, PhD) is a professor at Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management of Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) where she leads classes in reporting and writing and social campaigning. She has earned BA and MA in Medicine and MA in Journalism and Media Management. She has been a OSI Global Faculty Grant fellow at NYU University, visiting fellow at City University London, recipient of EU Cost Action STSM (short term scientific mission) to Zaragoza University. She is an Expert Speaker at International conferences, organized by European Journalism Training Association (EJTA), European Journalism Centre (EJC), International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ), European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), International Alert, CESS (Central Eurasian Studies Society) Her research topics are: pre-natal sex selection, femicide, trauma and addiction, ethical decision making and health communication; 

She is running  www.femicide.ge collaborative project to inform the public about murder crime including femicide through enabling journalists to report on crime trends and communicate it better. Tsomaia is a founder of an “open movement” to support community mental health services and open discussion about mental health issues.  

A preliminary analysis of gender violence among migrants and displaced people in Europe, Santiago Boira (1), Anita Nudelman (2), Tina (Tiko) Tsomaia (3),  Anthropological Researches and Studies, 2018

“Hearing their voices”: exploring femicide among migrants and culture minorities, Nudelman, Tsomaia, Boira, Ballica, Tabagua, Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), 2017 

Tsomaia, Tiko. 2015. Foeticide, Femicide and Violence Against Women in Georgia, Femicide, a global issue that demands action, Taking Action Against Gender-Related Killing of Women and Girls, Vienna: ACUNS. Retrieved from website: http://acuns.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/FemicideVol-IV.pdf on July 5, 2016.

Tsomaia, T. (2016). Professionalism and Myths in Covering Conflict. Journal of Politics and Democratization. Retrieved from https://gipa.ge/JPD/?page=article&id=5

  Manual for journalists and health professionals in Law and Health;

Manual for Reporting Children;

Manual for reporting HIV/AIDS and Drug Use;   

Recommendations for better health communication for journalists and health professionals; Manual for journalists on sensitive gender reporting;

Author of the amendments package for the GPB’s Code of Conduct, Broadcasters’ Code of Conduct and the Journalists Charter to institutionalize gender sensitive reporting;