Leah Ewald is a public health professional with a background in economics and international relations and over two years of experience working in immunization.
Ms. Ewald is a senior program officer supporting overall network coordination and technical material development for the Learning Network for Countries in Transition (LNCT).
Before joining R4D, Ms. Ewald was an immunization program officer working on the Maternal and Child Survival Program at John Snow, Inc., where she supported a learning agenda around improving the generation, quality and use of routine immunization data in 11 countries, as well as work planning, budgeting, monitoring and reporting for the global immunization team and country teams in Kenya and Madagascar. She has also conducted research on water, sanitation and hygiene behavior change interventions and policy at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh.
Ms. Ewald holds an MS in public health, an MA in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a native English speaker and speaks Spanish and French.
