Ije Nnachetta is a global health professional with experience in policy analysis, grant management, donor strategy and market shaping. She is particularly interested in supporting countries to build resilient health systems and increase access to essential health commodities.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Nnachetta is a senior program associate for the market shaping practice. In this role, she analyzes barriers in health product markets and helps in developing strategic solutions to them. She currently supports projects focusing on sexual and reproductive health products, as well as wasting in children and mothers.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Nnachetta worked at FHI 360 supporting the management of large HIV programs for general and key populations across Nigeria. She also supported programming for the COVID-19 emergency response and vaccination efforts in Nigeria, Haiti, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and the Pacific Islands. Prior to that, she was a program assistant in the Office of the Assistant Administrator at USAID’s Global Health Bureau.
Ms. Nnachetta holds a B.S. in biological sciences with a concentration in human nutrition and a minor in global health from Cornell University.
