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Buffalo, NY, US

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Lead a growing organization dedicated to improving people’s lives through providing the highest quality technical assistance, evidence generation, dissemination and knowledge management activities.Clients include UN.
• Led team that revised TRANSFORM social protection training modules to make them more gender- responsive and disability-inclusive.
• Co-principal investigator of longitudinal, mixed-method impact evaluation of the Stawisha Maisha (Nourishing Life) cash plus intervention to improve child nutrition in Tanzania, in collaboration with national.
• Lead team synthesizing impacts of cash transfers in Africa on domains including poverty and resilience, education, health, adolescents, and gender equality for project commissioned by UNICEF Western and Central Africa.
• Led systematic review on cash plus programming to reduce adolescents’ risk of HIV.
• Co-principal investigator of mixed-method study commissioned by UNICEF examining how gender norms influence gender-based violence experiences among children and adolescents.https://www.policyresearchsolutions.com/

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Member of the following Research Consortia:
• The Transfer Project (https://transfer.cpc.unc.edu/)
• The Cash Transfer Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative (https://www.cash-ipv.org/)
• External Collaborator with the GIRL Center at Population Council, 2022-2024 (https://popcouncil.org/hub/girl-center/)- Advising graduate students on Ph.D. dissertations.- Mentor with P3 ENGAGE Africa Mentorship.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Principal Investigator of the 2PE Lab; https://www.2pelab.com/
• Led research (including impact evaluations) on social policy, social protection, health, and violence.
• Taught graduate-level courses in data analysis, health services, global health and undergraduate- level course in global health.
• Mentored Ph.D., MS, MD & undergraduate students on research in 2PE lab.
• Advised graduate students on Ph.D. dissertations and MPH practica.
• Lead, Global Child Big Ideas team at the UB Community for Global Health Equity (CGHE).

New York, NY

Various assignments providing technical assistance and conducting research, impact evaluation, and evidence synthesis and dissemination around social protection (including cash transfers and cash plus programming) with UNICEF headquarters, country offices, and UNICEF Innocenti.

Conducted a rapid mapping exercise to understand current efforts of global development agencies in collecting and analysing sex disaggregated data in social protection systems and identifying priority gaps.

Florence, Italy

Provided technical assistance to UNICEF country offices around evidence and social protection. Led research examining impacts of social protection programs on poverty, food security, health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Studies included mixed method RCT and quasi-experimental designs in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia (and.

Stony Brook, NY, USA

Program in Public Health Department of Family, Population & Preventive MedicinePrincipal Investigator and co-Investigator on studies related to social policy and health, including food security, social protection, health-related quality of life, violence, and reproductive health. Secured external funding (PI) from NIH and South Africa Medical Research.

New York, NY, USA

Conducted research examining biological mechanisms connecting economic factors to health outcomes and the impact of health on human capital development.

Mexico, DF, Mexico

Conducted research related to policies and reproductive health among Mexican women.

Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Performed operations research in government health facilities to examine abortion care services, including technologies used, providers'​ knowledge, and quality of care in Africa (Zambia, Nigeria) and Latin America (Mexico, Bolivia). Backstopped monitoring and evaluation activities in Latin America region.

Nairobi, Kenya (remote-based)

New York, NY, USA

Ph.D., Public Policy

M.S., Economics

B.A., Economics, Spanish