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Ndola Prata, MD, MSc

  • Chair, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability
  • Professor in Residence Maternal and Child Health
  • Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning
  • Co-Director, Innovations for Youth (I4Y)
    School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
  • Co-Director, Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
    University of California, Global Health Institute (UCGHI)

Ndola Prata is a public health physician and medical demographer from Angola. She earned her medical degree from the University of Angola and an MSc in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She began her career practicing medicine in Angola for 10 years and served as Head of the Social Statistics Department at the National Institute of Statistics of Angola. Shortly after moving to the US, while beginning her tenure as a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley, she served as a Demographer/Analyst for CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health for six years, a role she resumed briefly from 2010 to 2011. Prata’s current research is based in sub-Saharan Africa, she is especially interested in family planning, abortion, reproductive health, women’s health and empowerment and maternal mortality. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of family planning and maternal health interventions that maximize distribution and financing mechanisms to increase access to contraceptives in developing countries, particularly for the underserved populations. Her projects investigate strategies for harnessing existing resources, including human capacity and health care infrastructure while also gathering evidence for setting priorities on national health agendas. Dr. Prata teaches courses and has published extensively on topics related to family planning, financing and ability to pay for reproductive health programs, the role of the private sector in health care, adolescent sexual behavior in developing countries, priorities for maternal health, the use of misoprostol in obstetrics and women’s empowerment, fertility and family planning.

    Team members

    • Ndola Prata, MD, MSc
    • Colette (Coco) Auerswald, MD, MS
    • Julianna Deardorff, PhD
    • Alisha Graves, MPH
    • Kim Harley, PhD
    • Nuriye Nalan Sahin Hodoglugil, MD, MA, DrPH
    • Sarah Jane Holcombe, PhD, MPH, MPPM
    • Robert (Nap) Hosang, MD, MPH, MBA, FRCOG, FACOG
    • Siti Juwariyah, MBA
    • Sandra McCoy, PhD, MPH
    • Paige Passano, MPH
    • Daniel Perlman, PhD
    • Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD, FRCOG
    • Tami Rowen MS, MD
    • Karen Sokal-Gutierrez MD, MPH
    • Dilys Walker, MD, FACOG
    • Karen Weidert, MPH

    Recent News

    • Ndola Prata will lecture at the FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress December 2020

      November 30, 2020
    • The Power of Leadership – November 13, 2020

      November 11, 2020
    • Job Opening: GSR for Spring 2021 Semester

      October 20, 2020
    • Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018

      July 25, 2020

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