Biography
Ndugga, Nambi is a public health professional aspiring to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations both locally and globally through the use of data and storytelling, linking historical and current events and policies to inequities in health systems, policies, and social services that impact health care and health outcomes.
She received her doctorate in public health from Tulane University and her MPH in global health and population studies from Harvard University. She has written extensively on the impacts of systemic and interpersonal racism, discrimination, and inequality on the health outcomes of marginalized communities, with bylines in JAMA Open, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, and the Washington Post. She was also a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) ad hoc planning committee on climate-related health outcomes and health disparities.
During her Policy Leaders Fellowship, Nambi will look at how EU-Africa health cooperation can be structured to sustain health programs in Sub-Saharan Africa during periods of donor retrenchment, with attention to protecting equitable access for marginalized communities. She will produce evidence-based policy guidance and tools to support more accountable and equitable transnational partnerships. Her work draws on her doctoral research on health system governance in Kenya and her experience translating health equity evidence into policy.