Stripe
Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovation from Polio Eradication
JHU Team
In 2017, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) was awarded a grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to map, synthesize, and disseminate knowledge from polio eradication in collaboration with 7 consortium partners. The JHU team is comprised of faculty and students across the School of Public Health who provide leadership and support in research, teaching, and dissemination.
Olakunle Alonge
Position: Primary Investigator
Olakunle Alonge, MD, PhD, MPH is a public health physician and an associate professor in international health at the Johns Hopkins University. His expertise is in implementation science and health systems research. His research and practice focuses on advancing global health and supporting effective...
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Anna Kalbarczyk
Position: Project Manager
As the STRIPE Project Manager, Anna oversees project operations at JHU and manages collaborative relationships with country partners. She leads the qualitative component of the knowledge mapping and synthesizing phases and has collaboratively managed the knowledge packaging processes. As a faculty...
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Svea Closser
Position: Course Director
Svea is responsible for coordinating work on the three MOOCs summarizing STRIPE’s findings, as well as the preparation of teaching case studies. She has also been collaborating on analyzing qualitative data around campaign effectiveness. Svea is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at t...
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Abigail Neel
Position: Research Associate
As a Research Associate on the STRIPE team, Abigail is engaged in all elements of research design, collection, analysis, and synthesis. She leads the context mapping and health system analysis work for the team and oversees the development and publication of scientific products across the STRIPE con...
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Aditi Rao
Position: Research Associate
As a Research Associate on the STRIPE team, Aditi is engaged in all elements of research design, data collection, analysis and synthesis. She supports the quantitative and qualitative streams for the knowledge mapping and synthesis phases, and coordinates the development of materials for the Global ...
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Daniela Rodriguez
Position: Associate Scientist
Daniela C. Rodriguez is a faculty member in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a qualitative researcher focused on health systems in low- and middle-income countries, with experience in evaluation and health policy research. Her work...
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Priyanka Agarwal
Position: Research Associate
Priyanka Agrawal serves as a faculty member at the International Injury Research Unit, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has 10+ years of experience working as a dentist in private and public sector hospitals in Nepal and the Philippines. She provides technical and managerial supp...
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Meike Schleiff
Position: Assistant Scientist
Meike serves as the STRIPE Project’s scoping review lead, overseeing the design, implementation, and initial analysis of the scoping review of the Smallpox Eradication Program and Global Polio Eradicatio Initiative literature that was undertaken. She also contributed to the curriculum design f...
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Bill Weiss
Position: Associate Scientist
Bill contributed to research design and tool development for the qualitative component of the project during the knowledge mapping phase, and the development of the Global Health Course in the knowledge packaging phase. Bill also serves as an advisor to the overall project. As a faculty member at...
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Michael Peters
Position: Research Assistant
Michael has been working as a student researcher since the inception of the STRIPE project. He contributed to the design, implementation, and analysis of the global stakeholders’ tacit knowledge survey in collaboration with country partners. As a PhD student in the Department of International Heal...
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