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. 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 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 currently consults for UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the Population Reference Bureau. Dr. Sharkey has Master of Health Science and PhD degrees from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Master of Science (Medicine) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
