04/14/2026
Going out with a bang for our last meeting of the semester, Thursday April 16th at 12PM in room 1201!!
Come hear from Dr. Emily Sonneveldt, who is the Director for the Center of M&E and Advocacy at Avenir Health, Adjunct Faculty for the Center for Reproductive Health Policy and Programs at Tulane and much more! She'll be talking about her experience and we'll give you all some closing thoughts on the year. Maybe we'll share some excerpts from our upcoming issue of the Internationalist! Who knows, its all to play for.
A little about Dr. Sonneveldt from the Center for Reproductive Health Policy and Programs: Dr. Sonneveldt is the Director of M&E and Advocacy at Avenir Health and the Director of the Track20 Project. She currently leads activities that focus on monitoring of health programs, increased data utilization at the national and global levels, and developing and applying innovative tools and models that support data-based decision-making. She has extensive experience supporting governments to develop, implement, and monitor health policies, including facilitation of goal setting and priority identification workshops that have resulted in policy and priority changes. She has performed district and national level applications of computer models focusing on family planning, safe motherhood, post-abortion care, and the impact of rapid population growth on development. She has worked implementing health programs in Africa and the Balkans and served as a technical advisor for policy, advocacy, and research activities in Africa, the Caribbean, Southern Asia, and Eastern Europe. Her primary areas of expertise are family planning and maternal health. Dr. Sonneveldt has an MPH and a Ph.D. in Public Health from Tulane University.
