Emily A. Bobrow, PhD, MPH is Senior Capacity Strengthening Advisor at ICF. Dr. Bobrow is on the management team of the USAID funded project, Surveys for Monitoring in Resilience and Food Security (SMRFS), the purpose of which is to collect high-quality population-based survey data in priority countries and to strengthen data collection and data use capacities of local organizations.
Dr. Bobrow leads the design, implementation and monitoring of project wide capacity development strategy, targeted to a diverse group of stakeholders at the country and global levels. Dr. Bobrow is a behavioral scientist with almost 20 years of technical, programmatic, research and evaluation experience working in global public health in Africa and South Asia. Her expertise includes maternal and child health, public health nutrition, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, quality improvement, and capacity strengthening.
Prior to join ICF, she has worked as a Senior Researcher at Mathematica, as a Senior Technical Specialist for Evaluation and Learning at MEASURE Evaluation at UNC, as a Senior Research Officer at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), as a Fellow in the Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and as a School Health and Nutrition Specialist at Save the Children. Dr. Bobrow has also worked as a consultant providing technical assistance, research expertise, curriculum development, and leading trainings for organizations including FHI360, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.