Core Team
Karen Austrian
GIRL Center Director
Emily Cho
Research Communications and Uptake Coordinator
Angel Del Valle
Country Representative
Nicole Haberland
Senior Associate
Md. Irfan Hossain
Senior Program Officer
Sarah Islam
GIRL Center Manager
Meredith Kozak
EGER Project Manager
Anne-Caroline Midy
Project Coordinator
Dela Nai
Associate I
Arindam Nandi
Associate II
Miriam Temin
Project Director and Associate II
Deborah Walnicki
EGER Data & Digital Product Coordinator
Fatima Zahra
Associate I
The GIRL Center brings together the Council’s foremost thinkers on adolescent girls across 50 countries with expertise in diverse research methodologies and issues.
External Research Collaborators
- Emma Chikovore, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Jeremiah Chikovore, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
- Justin Dansou, University of Parakou, Benin
- Kelly Hallman, Indigenous Justice Circle, United States
- Caroline Kabiru, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
- Blessings N. Kaunda-Khangamwa, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Tia Palermo, University at Buffalo, Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) LLC, United States
- Zewdneh Sabe, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and based in Ethiopia
- Simona Simona, University of Zambia
- Aditya Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India
- Oluwaseyi Somefun (Seyi), University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Learn more about our External Research Collaborators.
