Michelle’s project focuses on supporting capacity-strengthening for female public health researchers through the design of a mentorship program together with partners in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan, and mapping maternal and newborn health national policies in these countries to inform future research and advocacy. Michelle is an MPH student in the Department of Global Health and Population. Her background includes coordinating impact evaluations of development interventions in Uganda and Myanmar, and her interests lie in strengthening the provision of responsive, person-centered, quality health care to improve the lives of women and children worldwide. She uses quantitative, qualitative, and design methodologies to explore this topic from different angles, from the user to the systems to the historical and social determinants. Michelle is also engaged in research about how societies and governments can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. In her free time, she loves to bake and salsa dance.
