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My name is Mahlet (MA-HA-LATE) Woldetsadik (WAL-DE-SA-DIK). I am a Senior Program Officer in the Gender Equality Division at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. I am based in the Data and Technology Adoption (DATA) Team, where I lead the team’s efforts to streamline platforms for primary data collection, user insights, and analytics to fill gender data gaps, strengthen the data and modeling ecosystem for issues affecting women and girls, and inform policy decision-making. Between 2018 and 2022, I was a Health Economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was based at the Center for Global Health, Division of Global Health Protection, Office of the Director, where I designed and led economic evaluations to assess the impact of CDC’s investment in global health security around the world. 

I have a PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and worked as an Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation (2013–2018). My doctoral dissertation “The Long-Term Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence on Survivors and Families: The Case of Northern Uganda,” explores the persisting consequences of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) on women survivors and immediate family members, and assesses how the Ugandan conflict contributed to women’s experience of intimate-partner violence during war, and in the post-conflict period. The dissertation is summarized in this short Research_Brief. In addition, key findings from the study have been published in peer-reviewed journals. The first publication focused on the long-term effects of CRSV and the second article explored the ripple effects of CRSV on families of survivors. 

My research interests span the field of (global) public health and social protection, specifically around the issues of global health security, veteran and military health, and gender and conflict.

In my work, I use a range of research methods including empirical analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods, economic evaluations, and psychometrics.

I have worked with federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and health ministries to implement impact evaluations in various countries, including Colombia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, India, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.

The Brocher Foundation, the Maternal Health Task Force, the Jim Lovelace Foundation, and the Pardee Global Human Progress Initiative have all funded my research.