Rigorous by training.
Human by design.
I spent seven years inside Duke Global Health Innovation Center managing the Pfizer Foundation's global health grants portfolio, 150 grantees, 20 countries, $18 million in investments. I built the measurement systems, ran the learning cycles, and wrote the board reports. I know what it looks like when a portfolio works. And I know what gets lost when evaluation is treated as a compliance function instead of a learning one.
Before that, I led multi-country evaluations funded by USAID, the Gates Foundation, and Grand Challenges Canada, including a $1.8M evaluation of the Saving Lives at Birth program that ran across Rounds 1 through 8. I've designed measurement frameworks, built grantee capacity, and translated field data into strategy in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, India, and across sub-Saharan Africa.
"The formal story of a grant portfolio is easy to tell: milestones met, populations served, outcomes measured. The more interesting story is the one underneath: the programs that had to adapt midstream, the indicators that changed, the funder-grantee conversations that shaped the work in ways no report fully captures. That is where the real learning happens."
I hold a PhD in Sociology and Master of Public Policy from Duke, and an MBA. I'm a trained demographer and applied social scientist who has spent a career building the bridge between rigorous evidence and the decisions people actually make with it. I founded Catalyze Health Advisory LLC in 2024. I'm based in Chapel Hill, NC, and I work with foundations, corporate philanthropy teams, and global health organizations across the US and internationally.
I work with a small number of clients at a time. If you're thinking about evaluation, learning strategy, or measurement infrastructure, I'd welcome a conversation.
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