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Program Associate, Global Health Initiative

BACKGROUND

Aya Caldwell is the Global Health Associate at CIMIT’s Global Health Initiative (GHI). As a Global Health Associate, Ms. Caldwell implements evaluations, coordinates programs, and conducts research to further the goals of GHI’s mission. Ms. Caldwell also served as a Maternal Child Health Consultant to the International Organization of Migration (IOM) to conduct an outcome evaluation on an asphyxia training program in Aceh, Indonesia. In 2009 Ms. Caldwell traveled to the Annual World Health Care Congress to present at the "Extremely Affordable Health Innovations" poster competition. GHI's poster on the intervention and outcome study for Birth Asphyxia in Aceh, Indonesia won in the Maternal and Child Health category. Prior to joining CIMIT, Ms. Caldwell worked in finance as a research analyst focusing on private equity deals in emerging markets. She graduated from Dartmouth College in Anthropology and Asian Middle Eastern Studies, completing her Anthropology thesis work in Guatemala City, Guatemala analyzing theories of development using a women’s cooperative as a case study. Ms. Caldwell has had extensive overseas experience in Mali, Indonesia, Morocco, Guatemala, and Japan.