Alumni Update:

Stephanie is continuing to work at Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) as a Program Manager for the Pediatric HIV and Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission team. Her work focuses on working in close collaboration and partnership with ministries of health to accelerate HIV treatment and care scale up for pediatrics and adolescents in Africa. She splits her time between Boston and East and Southern Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Stephanie graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a degree in global affairs, concentrating in international development and global health. She graduated from the Yale School of Public Health in 2017 with a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and global health as part of Yale’s five-year BA/MPH joint degree program. Stephanie’s academic studies have focused primarily on health systems strengthening and access to medicines in both the US and global contexts. She worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative during her senior year of college to advise health workforce management and capacity building in Liberia. Stephanie conducted health policy work for Iona Senior Services, a long-term care nonprofit, and Atlas Research, a federal healthcare-consulting firm, in Washington, D.C. During the summer of 2016, Stephanie interned with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland to help evaluate Gavi’s tailored approach to providing vaccines and health systems strengthening support in unstable or challenging environments. Stephanie enjoys running, cooking, and singing a cappella. She will be working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Mbabane and is excited to learn first-hand about health financing in Swaziland, learn about a new culture, and explore the beautiful landscapes.

Nicole, a native of New Jersey graduated from Seton Hall University cum laude with a degree in Finance and studied at the pre-legal institute at Seton Hall Law School. Nicole started her career in health industry consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, based in New York City, where she strengthened her professional skills, researched developments in patient access, and worked with global pharmaceutical organizations on business strategy development. At Seton Hall, she led service projects in New Jersey, Colorado, and El Salvador, primarily serving the homeless population, prisoners, and young adults. Following graduation, Nicole served as a Board of Regents member, mentor for college students, and financial literacy instructor. Nicole visited South Africa for the first time in 2017 and she is grateful to return to the region to work for the Clinton Health Access Initiative on the Sustainable Health Financing team in Mbabane!

Alumni Update:

Nicole has been working with her host organization, CHAI, since her fellowship year. She is currently an epidemiologist based in Eswatini, supporting national malaria programmes in South Africa, Eswatini and Mozambique to manage malaria surveillance systems and measure progress towards elimination.

Fellow Bio:

Nicole Dagata graduated with honors from the University of Florida with a BA in Economics. Her journey into her career in international development began when she sought funding to implement a project aimed toward improving community health. Her vision, Food for Thought, garnered support to develop and facilitate nutrition workshops for local youth. The success of the project inspired Nicole to travel to Guatemala where she had the opportunity to conduct program impact research. Her time there brought to her attention numerous health disparities which regularly effect marginalized groups. Nicole left Guatemala with the desire to devote herself to providing aid to these communities. After graduation, Nicole began working in the malaria control program for an NGO called PATH. She coordinates field activities, report writing and utilizes data management tools to provide summaries of data captured throughout health facilities in Africa. Outside the office, Nicole serves as Prevention team lead on DC’s HIV Working Group, a coalition aiming to spread awareness about HIV prevention and treatment by organizing free HIV testing. Additionally, Nicole supports Children’s National Health System as a Patient Care Volunteer, working directly with the hospital’s globally diverse group of patients to provide companionship before medical procedures.

Lauren is a recent graduate of the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, where she earned a Master of Public Health with a focus on community health and development.  In her graduate thesis, Lauren assessed the implementation of governmental food and nutrition support programs for women in India and learned the importance of national health system efficiency and accountability. Prior to her MPH, Lauren pursued a B.A. in Political Science at Rice University, with minors in Global Health Technologies and Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities. While at Rice, Lauren created low-cost, high-impact global health technologies for use in resource-constrained settings, some of which she field-tested in Swaziland in 2010. Lauren is excited to return to Swaziland as a PiAf Fellow with a broadened understanding of global public health and an opportunity to make data-driven recommendations to optimize utilization of national health resources.

Hannah graduated from the University of Michigan in 2014 with a degree in Global Health & Environment and Afro-American & African studies. After a trip to Ghana sparked her interest in Africa, Hannah solidified this passion by studying abroad in South Africa and leading support groups for HIV-affected teens. Throughout college, Hannah taught an innovative HIV prevention module to high-risk populations and did outreach and testing with Michigan’s leading AIDS service organizations. She also facilitated student sexual health forums, interned as a Spanish translator for undocumented persons with UMichigan’s Law School, facilitated prevention programming for elementary school girls at a women’s shelter in Michigan’s largest Latino neighborhood, and worked in arts-based activism. After graduation, Hannah worked at the American Red Cross in Detroit in International Services where she advocated on behalf of Iraqi and Syrian refugees and reconnected families separated by disaster and conflict. Hannah currently works in Detroit as a Health Education Coordinator for an HIV agency facilitating psychosocial support groups for recently diagnosed and formerly incarcerated individuals living with HIV. She enjoys spending her evenings working with at-risk teenage girls in a live-in scholarship program, and is excited to advocate similarly for teens and families at BIPAI Swaziland.

Diego joins Princeton in Africa from Santander Bank, where he worked for seven years after graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics in 2009. While at Santander Bank, he worked on the Corporate Strategy and Project Finance teams in New York City. His responsibilities ranged from analyzing potential bank acquisitions to financing energy and infrastructure projects in the United States. Diego is originally from Brownsville, Texas, and in his spare time he enjoys playing and coaching soccer; he was also a youth soccer coach with the South Bronx United organization. He will be working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Mbabane, Swaziland, and is looking forward to understanding how the results of data analysis are presented, debated, and implemented in order to improve the public health sector. He also can’t wait to experience the energy and joy of a braai.

Daniel graduated from Whitman College in 2018 with a degree in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology and a minor in Politics. Daniel became passionate about the intersection of science, public health policy, and international development while conducting molecular HIV/AIDS research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. The summer after graduation, Daniel was a Davis Projects for Peace Fellow in Arusha, Tanzania, where he organized a series of outreach soccer camps that promoted HIV education and female empowerment. Daniel also studied international relations in Freiburg, Germany with the IES European Union program. While overseas, Daniel served on the student council and had the opportunity to work with populations ranging from immigration centre inhabitants in Athens to persecuted Roma minorities in Bucharest. At Whitman, Daniel was the business manager and sports editor of the Whitman Wire newspaper, played on the varsity men’s soccer team, and sat on the board of trustees of the Whitman Investment Company. In his spare time, he volunteered at the SOS Health Clinic, which provides free health services to uninsured individuals. Daniel is a Paul Garrett Scholar and received the President’s Environmental Youth Award after travelling by train from Washington state to Washington D.C. to lobby for revisions in climate change policy. Originally from Port Townsend, Washington, he loves skiing, mountain climbing, basketball, and playing the guitar. Daniel is excited to spend a year working with BIPAI Swaziland and hopes to increase health care access for individuals living in Mbabane.