Sangeeta Mookherji (Ph.D., M.H.S.) began her global health work in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1993, the same year the term “reproductive health” was coined. Her work there focused on maternal and child health in urban slums, and her language ability enabled her to do a lot of field and ethnographic work. Since then, she has worked many times again in Bangladesh, as well as in Bhutan, Cambodia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, the US, the UK, Ukraine, and Zanzibar, living in 5 of those countries and providing support to teams based in multiple other countries not yet visited. Be aware! She speaks Danish and Bengali!

Prior to joining MF, she was Director, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) for Project HOPE, one of MF’s implementing partners. Before that, she was a professor of global health for 13 years at George Washington University. All of her work focuses on assessing global health program performance and assisting implementors with assessing their performance – with three underlying purposes: 1) build local capacity for program performance assessment; 2) generate credible evidence on what works; 3) use the evidence as justification for continued funding and scale-up.