Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Lola Adedokun

Lola Adedokun serves as the Program Officer for the African Health Initiative. In this role, she is responsible for the day to day monitoring of grantee activities in Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia and the administration of new grants.

Ms. Adedokun received her Bachelors Degree in Health Policy and Sociology from Dartmouth College in 2003 and after conducting independent research focused on health care systems response to HIV positive patients in Salvador, Brazil joined the Science and Technology Center at Abt Associates Inc. During her two year post at Abt she participated in several impact evaluations related to HIV/AIDs programming both domestically and internationally. She went on to complete her Masters Degree in Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health with a focus on Health Policy and Management before joining the foundation.