Carrie Ngongo
Senior Program Associate
Fistula Care Project
Carrie Ngongo has won accolades from New York Times' OpEd columnist, Nicholas Kristof, for her essay in response to Half the Sky in which she as a first-time mother compares her own joyous experience of childbirth to the adversity faced by less fortunate women in the developing world. She serves as senior program associate on the Fistula Care Project, a USAID-funded project managed by EngenderHealth. In that capacity, she:
- provides technical support to develop, implement and evaluate programs that address fistula prevention, treatment and reintegration.
- serves as Fistula Care’s liaison for colleagues and partners in Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Togo, and Bangladesh.
Prior to joining EngenderHealth in 2008, Carrie coordinated an infection prevention initiative in Kenya’s provincial hospitals and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea.
She holds a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Carrie moderated the Q&A session of the private screening of the award-winning documentary about obstetric fistula, A Walk to Beautiful which is captured in the Future Choices episode airing March 2010: "We Walked with the Women."