Lauren Rosapep has over 15 years of experience in the social service, education, and health sectors advising teams on using data and evidence to facilitate the development of project interventions and develop monitoring and learning frameworks to improve these interventions over time. She has led qualitative and quantitative research studies, assessments, and evaluations in the US, Africa, and Asia to generate data and insights that have been used to improve program and product quality and targeting, and better understand operating and implementation contexts. She has also published her work in peer-reviewed journals and presented findings at international research conferences.
As an associate director at Result for Development’s (R4D) evaluation and adaptive learning (EAL) practice, Ms. Rosapep provides technical and strategic leadership to EAL’s flagship initiatives. She also leads processes to review and analyze evidence to inform priorities for action and facilitates collaboration with consortium partners, USAID representatives, government stakeholders, and local implementing partners. In addition, she supports the growth and strategy development for the practice.
In her career, Ms. Rosapep has helped government and non-government stakeholders identify ways to improve in-service training for health care workers, expand service availability and accessibility to people living with HIV, pinpoint weaknesses in TB treatment initiation protocols, help community-level drug shops relay health messaging more effectively to their customers. By using iterative and participatory evaluation approaches she helped to adapt a peer sexual-health education program and explore the implications of modifying staffing configurations for early education interventions.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Rosapep was a Senior Associate at Abt Associates where she served as the senior administrator on Abt’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) and was a Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead on the USAID-funded Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus (SHOPS Plus) and Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) projects.
Outside of work, Ms. Rosapep serves in the Washington, D.C. chapter of Back on My Feet, a nonprofit organization that combats homelessness through the power of fitness, community support, and essential employment and housing resources.
Ms. Rosapep holds an MA in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Publications
Rosapep, L., S. Faye, B. Johns, B. Olusola-Faleye, et al. (2022). Tuberculosis care quality in Urban Nigeria: a cross-sectional study of adherence to screening and treatment initiation guidelines in multi-cadre networks of private health service providers. PLoS Global Health.
Srihari, S., M.B. Hastings, and L. Rosapep. (2021). Assessment of Gender and Supportive Supervision in Nigeria. Rockville, MD: Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus Project, Abt Associates.
Bradley, S. E. K., L. Rosapep, and T. Shiras. (2020). Where do caregivers take their sick children for care? An analysis of care-seeking and equity in 24 USAID priority countries. Global Health Science and Practice.
Peterson, K., J. Wheeler, M. Pollock, and L. Rosapep. (2019). Understanding Family Planning Counseling in the Private Sector through a Behavioral Economics Lens. Brief. Rockville, MD: Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector Plus Project, Abt Associates.
Rosapep, L., E. Sanders., and K. Banke. (2017). The Influence of Customer-Medicine Seller Transactional Dynamics on Childhood Diarrhoea Management: A Qualitative Study in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning.
