Dr. Alyssa Sharkey

Dr. Alyssa Sharkey is a lecturer in the School of Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she is affiliated with both the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Office for Population Research. She teaches classes on inequities in health, current challenges in global health, and health policy in low- and middle-income countries. Her research areas include maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, equity and immunisation, gender-related barriers to health services, health system strengthening, and implementation research to improve health programs in collaboration with health policymakers.

Between 2010 and 2021, she was a senior health specialist with UNICEF working in both their headquarters and South Asia regional offices. Over the past 30 years, Alyssa has worked as a health policy analyst, program officer, and policy researcher within a variety of academic, research, and non-governmental settings both internationally and in the United States. She has recently consulted for UNICEF, the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, the World Health Organization, and the Gates Foundation.

Dr. Sharkey has Master of Health Science (MHS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Master of Science in Medicine (MSc Med) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.