Yêlé Adjognon

Yêlé Adjognon, is a Doctor in Public Health (DrPH) candidate at Boston University School of Public Health, specializing in Leadership, Management, and Policy. She holds a Master of Science in Population and International Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Knox College. Yêlé’s extensive experience in public health includes her current role as a senior project manager and qualitative analyst at the Center for Health Optimization and Implementation Research, VA Boston Healthcare System, where she has worked for over a decade, and currently leads a dissemination grant using co-design methodology, and supports studies in implementation science. Before this, she managed a maternal and child health portfolio of high-impact interventions to prevent leading childhood illnesses (including pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria) for USAID/Benin in West Africa. Early in her career, she also worked as a research associate at the Institute for Community Health in Cambridge, MA, applying the community-based participatory approach to the evaluation of various community health projects.

Research Interests:  Health science communication and multimedia dissemination, qualitative research, implementation science, intimate partner violence.