Angélica López Hernández is a public health researcher and physician with more than 10 years of experience across Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She specializes in strengthening health systems by using routine data to drive decision-making. Her work spans research, policy and technical assistance in collaboration with global development partners and governments.
Dr. López Hernández is a senior program officer at Results for Development, where she supports the implementation of the Frequent Assessments and Systems Tools for Resilience (FASTR) initiative, a Global Financing Facility effort focused on improving the generation and use of real-time data for decision-making. Her work includes health facility data pipeline development, country analytics, technical facilitation in English and French, and coordination across multisector partners.
She has led or contributed to analytic and policy work on road safety, health system performance and gender equity. She was a key contributor to multi-country publications on future health spending in Latin America and supported the development of technical tools for analyzing DHIS2 and health facility data. Her social network analysis on women in global health has informed leadership development programs around the world.
Before joining R4D, Dr. López Hernández was a consultant at the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility, where she supported analytics development for the FASTR initiative. She previously held consulting roles with the World Bank Haiti team and the Inter-American Development Bank, and led research on road safety governance and coalition building at the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety. She has worked in more than 12 countries, including Guinea, Ghana, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vietnam, Mexico and Brazil.
Dr. López Hernández is a Fulbright García-Robles scholar, a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, and part of the Ruth Rice Puffer Fund Scholars Network at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
She holds a doctorate and a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a medical degree from UNAM in Mexico. She also completed a specialization in gender, sexuality and law at CIDE. She speaks Spanish (native), English (full professional) and French (advanced), and is proficient in Stata, R, NVivo and Kumu.
