Our Team

As the Director of FP CAPE, Siân Curtis provides overall technical direction, leadership, and management for the project. Siân, a social statistician, has worked in the field of international health for over two decades. Her research and evaluation interests include contraceptive use dynamics, international reproductive and maternal health, monitoring and evaluation methods for population, health and food security programs, multilevel models, and statistical demography. Siân is currently a Senior Evaluation Specialist on the MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV Project, where she leads the evaluation portfolio of activities for the project. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator (PI) for the North Carolina Women’s Health Access Project, and was the PI for the Feed the Future Feedback Project. Previously, Siân was the Project Director for the MEASURE Evaluation Phase II and Phase III Projects, where she directed a portfolio of over 200 activities in more than 30 countries, and oversaw and participated in evaluation research in international health. Siân has extensive research experience in multiple countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ukraine, and Zambia. She has participated in several World Health Organization consultative meetings on measurement issues, and was a member of the 2012 Family Planning Summit Monitoring and Accountability Advisory Group and Technical Working Group, the UNAIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group, and the Health Metrics Network Technical Advisory Group.

Gabriela Escudero provides management and logistics support and coordination for FP CAPE activities. She also participates in the project’s technical activities, particularly in the DRC. Gabriela has worked in the field of public health for 20 years in more than a dozen countries. She has managed and supported personnel from Ministries of Health, USAID and NGOs in multiple countries in Africa, Central America, and South East Asia to develop monitoring and evaluation plans, implement evaluation activities related to family planning, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, and coordinate large-scale health surveys. Gabriela has an MPH in Population Studies from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Jean Lambert Chalachala supports the implementation of FP CAPE’s evaluation activities and partner relationship in the DRC. He is also working part-time as Strategic Information Advisor for the project Linkages Across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV (LINKAGES) for the DRC and Cote d’Ivoire. Previously, he worked as a Clinician in rural areas of the DRC, where he provided care to people while facing the serious weaknesses of the health care system. He later joined international NGOs (Medicins Sans Frontieres, then World Health Organization), where he contributed to managing major public health problems, including outbreaks of measles, cholera, typhoid fever, Ebola, and endemic malnutrition, throughout the DRC. Before going back to school for his Masters’ degree, Jean Lambert worked as a Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator for several years with the UNC-DRC projects on HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, nutrition, bioethics and sexual and gender-based violence. He has collaborated as a Field Coordinator in several operational research projects, doctoral studies and publications within UNC. As a Rotary Peace Fellow and Peace Index Ambassador, Jean Lambert has participated in meetings and conferences in the US and the DRC where he is contributing by sharing his experience of war conditions and peace building.

Raney Lee supports the implementation of FP CAPE’s evaluation activities in Nigeria and the DRC. She assists with qualitative data collection and analysis, as well as content creation and visualization for FP CAPE insights decks. Previously, Raney served as a Rural Community Health Advisor volunteer with the Peace Corps in Benin. She holds an MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Louis NKingi Rukunda (King) provides administrative and logistics support to the FP CAPE activities in the DRC. Specifically, he assists the DRC Country Representative with the organizing and logistics for in-country meetings with stakeholders and grantees. King has also worked as administrative assistants for collaborative projects between the Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Ohio State University. Before joining the KSPH, he worked as customs agent for the Comexas Afrique.

Huyen Vu supports FP CAPE’s evaluation activities, particularly the Nigeria portfolio and qualitative analysis. She coordinates evaluation activities, such as data collection, data analysis, and content development for insight decks and reports. Prior to joining FP CAPE, Huyen worked on global and domestic public health programs, including HIV/AIDS, TB control, access to and irrational use of medicines, peer support in chronic disease management, and communications of tobacco risk. Huyen holds an MSPH in Health Policy and Management from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emmanuel Adegbe has been a medical doctor for more than 21 years and has over 16 years’ experience in public health covering malaria, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS/TB, child welfare/immunization, and nutrition. Before joining FP CAPE, Emmanuel was the Health Team Lead and a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist for the USAID funded Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Program, backstopping the USAID Nigeria Health, Population and Nutrition, and HIV/TB Offices. Prior to that, he was the M&E Expert and Deputy Team Lead with Ecorys UK on the DFID funded, Independent Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (IMEP) to provide client focused monitoring and evaluation services to DFID in relation to a suite of five large multi-sectoral programs cutting across governance, civil society and demand creation, education, health, and economic growth. While at IMEP, Emmanuel was the focal person for the £150 million health project and participated in its annual performance review for three years as well as the final project evaluation in 2016. He is also in the process of completing a PhD in Public Health (Epidemiology) at Walden University.

As a Research Associate based in Abuja (Nigeria), Patrick Iyiwose supports the implementation of FP CAPE’s evaluation and BMGF coordination in Nigeria. Patrick has worked in different public health projects over the past 10 years with both local and international research organizations in Nigeria. Previously, he worked with Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) for the Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) as a field work quality assurance supervisor/research and an administrative specialist during the longitudinal and cross-sectional survey.