ABOUT Dr. Jonathan Izudi

Dr. Jonathan Izudi is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center. His research focuses on impact evaluations. His expertise includes public health, global health, one health, epidemiology, causal inference, and impact evaluation.

Jonathan received a doctorate in public health from Mbarara University, focusing on tuberculosis treatment response and success. He has completed a number of postdoctoral trainings, including the D43 Fogarty Fellowship at Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute, GloCal Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Impact Evaluation Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley in the USA. He holds a Master of Science in Public Health (MPH) and Master of Science (MSc) in Global Health, specializing in One Health. Between 2008 and 2019, he has worked in programs focused on HIV, TB, maternal and child health, primary healthcare, immunization, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) at the national and international levels.

He is driven by the desire to improve public health through policy-relevant research and evidence generation and by the need to build the next generation of great thinkers to solve emerging and re-emerging health problems.

He is the first male African early-career researcher to win the coveted Prof. Dr. Charles Boucher Award for the highest-ranked scientific abstract and best presentation at the 2022 INTEREST conference. He is a member of the Network of Impact Evaluation in Africa (NIERA) and an Associate Editor of AIDS Research and Therapy.