Ifeoma C. Udoh, PhD

Dr Ifeoma Udoh is Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, and the Research Director for Pangaea’s Oakland NIH study. Ife has extensive experience in implementing international and domestic HIV/AIDS programming and monitoring and evaluation activities in low resource settings around the world, including the Caribbean, Asia, and the United States.

Ife’s research interest include the design and use of rapid assessment and ethnographic methods to inform program development, with particular emphasis on populations such as male and female sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS. Her programmatic interests also include prevention with positives, combined structural and behavioral interventions addressing high risk multiple partnerships, and linkages of HIV testing services to care and treatment. After completing undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the UC Berkeley, Ife subsequently went on to work on international monitoring and evaluation and training programs through federal funded initiatives of the Global AIDS Program (CDC) and USAID, serving as an M&E advisor to National AIDS Programs and community based organizations in both the Eastern Caribbean and South East Asia.

Ife is committed to promoting the use of monitoring and evaluation data to support the strengthening of HIV/AIDS programming. Her experience and expertise is in engaging community based organizations serving hard to reach and marginalized groups to design and implement monitoring and evaluation activities that reinforce evidence-based decision making. She is passionate about developing long term community capacity to implement assessments that are rigorous and data-driven, yet grounded in the realities of the field.