Anna

Kalbarczyk

, DrPH, MPH

I am an implementation scientist and gender specialist with extensive experience in international settings. My primary interests include promoting women's leadership in global health, conducting implementation research, incorporating intersectional and gender lenses into research and dissemination, institutional capacity strengthening, and knowledge translation for policy makers.

I serve as the Assistant Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health which services the entire University and seeks to promote interdisciplinarity in global health. My work and research aims to improve the capacity of academic institutions to support global health training across the continuum of education.

I am also the co-Director of the Gender and Health Summer Institute which offers applied courses for health trainees and professionals seeking skills in gender research and programming. 

Current projects include:

1) HPV IMPACT - Designing and testing innovative methods to measure HPV coverage using an equity lens. 

2) THRIVE - Transforming Health: The Role and Impact of Women's Leadership in the Health Sector. Moving beyond the well-documented barriers that women leaders face in global health, this study seeks to document the unique approaches that women leaders use to make an impact on health programs and policies. 

3) The Emerging Women Leaders in Global Health (EDGE) Initiative. Activities include regular story-telling seminars, a one-week course, and an active virtual network with more than 1200 members around the world.

4) GENDER FORWARD (Framework for Responsive and Adaptive Design in Digital Health). Generate and test a framework to inform the design and implementation of digital health interventions.