Roberta is the Data, Analytics, and Impact Lead at AVAC where she leads strategy, development, and implementation of AVAC’s data systems, data visualization, and MEL initiatives. In this role, Roberta oversees a team of data analysts and communicators who manage AVAC’s web platforms and analytic systems, ensuring they are up-to-date and used to generate robust data analyses, disseminate visual products, and communicate organizational accomplishments and impact. She serves as a member of AVAC’s Leadership Team and works collaboratively with AVAC staff and partners to develop tailored, context-specific MEL systems, analyses and visualizations that support advocacy initiatives, research translation, and product introduction work.
Roberta joined AVAC in 2020 and has over 15 years of experience in developing MEL systems, designing data visualization products, and promoting the use of data for decision-making. She uses innovative MEL approaches and tools to document the impact of advocacy work and cultivate MEL expertise among her colleagues. Prior to joining AVAC, Roberta was a Strategic Information Specialist at ICAP at Columbia University where she provided technical support and guidance on the design and scale-up of M&E, health information and surveillance systems for HIV prevention, care, and treatment service delivery, TB, malaria, immunization, infection prevention control, and national technical assistance projects.