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Author: Jen Zhu

Jen is originally from Greenville, North Carolina. Jen worked on last-mile distribution of essential technologies in off-grid areas in India and improved implementation of a Ugandan Ministry of Health program using community health workers to fill a treatment gap and reduce under age five child mortality. Additionally, she conducted a randomized controlled trial maximizing adoption of public health interventions in 32 Honduran villages through social network targeting. She graduated from Harvard College with a degree in government and sociology and a minor in global health and health policy. While at Harvard, she served as student body vice president and first class marshal, and was a founding team member of an international development startup called Essmart, which was the 2012 grand prize winner of the International Dell Social Innovation Challenge. Immediately prior to GHC, Jen worked for Senator Kay Hagan on Capitol Hill. Jen loves hiking, photography, learning new languages, and trying new foods and experiences.

The trouble with incentives

“You know, we do not come because [another organization] gives us money to attend meetings,” a health worker told me bluntly as I waited for the health center’s workers to trickle into Millennium Villages Project’s monthly one-hour quality improvement meeting. Part of the area that Uganda’s Millennium Villages Project serves is saturated with NGOs: Elizabeth […]

What happens at the end? Millennium Villages Project & the MDGs

My organization is shutting down at the end of this year. The world’s also supposed to meet the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the end of this year. I work at Millennium Villages Project (MVP), started by economist and UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Millennium Development Goals Jeffrey Sachs to demonstrate that rural […]

Bridging the Gap Between the Databases and the Faces

During my first week of work, I became acquainted with our online Verbal Autopsy system: a way of noting how many neonatal, under 5 years, and maternal deaths have occurred; it includes the patients’ case histories and why they died. “See this?” my co-worker pointed to one of the first names in the spreadsheet, “Baby.” […]

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