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Ndola Prata

Medical Director

Dr. Prata is an Angolan physician and medical demographer who has worked throughout Africa and Asia. She has designed the protocols and directed technical assistance and training for our clinical demonstration studies in Tanzania, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Zambia and Ethiopia. She is an Associate Professor in Residence of Maternal and Child Health in the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley and also serves as the Scientific Director for the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability.

Dr. Prata has published extensively in areas of family planning, financing and ability to pay for reproductive health programs, the role of the private sector in health care in developing countries, adolescent sexual behavior in developing countries, priorities for maternal health, and the use of misoprostol to manage postpartum bleeding.

She received a doctor of medicine degree in Angola. After practicing medicine for 10 years and serving as Head of the Social Statistics Department at the National Institute of Statistics of Angola, she received a master of science in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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