Executive Director, EVIHDAF, USA & Cameroon
Dr Jean Christophe Fotso is the Founder and current Executive Director of EVIHDAF. He is a research and evaluation professional with over 20 years’ experience in designing and applying state-of-the-art approaches to program design, evaluation and learning. His subject areas include family planning and reproductive health; maternal, newborn and child health; nutrition and food security; human resources for health; and health systems strengthening.
Between 2013 and 2016, Dr Fotso was the Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at Concern Worldwide USA, where he led an eight-year, flagship program, the Innovations for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, comprised of nine projects in five countries (Ghana, Sierra Leonne, Kenya, Malawi and India), and two cross-project agenda on human-centered design, and alignment with human rights principles. Prior to joining Concern Worldwide in early 2013, he was the Head of the Population and Reproductive Health research program at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya, leading and managing projects in many African countries including DR Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, as well as Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi and Zambia.
Dr Fotso is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA. He holds a PhD in Demography from the University of Montreal, Canada, and an MSc in Statistics from University of Paris VI, France.
