emerging leader finalist:
chytanya kompala
Learn more about Chytanya Kompala below, see our other Ward Cates Emerging Leader finalists, and cast your vote to help choose our 2019 Ward Cates Emerging Leader Award winner. The winning individual will be profiled on the TGHC website and in communications materials and will be presented with the award at the Triangle Global Health Consortium's annual Award Celebration on May 7 at Top of the Hill Restaurant in front of many of the top regional leaders in global health.
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Dr. Ward Cates
Each year the Triangle Global Health Consortium recognizes emerging leaders in North Carolina who have demonstrated significant promise and a commitment to improving the health of the world's communities. We are excited to announce our three 2019 finalists and celebrate their leadership, innovation, and spirit of collaboration!
Chytanya Kompala, MSPH
As a global health nutritionist, Chytanya Kompala works to support implementation research on cost-effective solutions to malnutrition in East Africa. Her research interests include implementation research, maternal and child nutrition, and innovative, scalable solutions to improving global nutrition. Chytanya Kompala currently serves as the Nutrition Research Program Officer for the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF).
Chytanya demonstrates innovative thinking and technical expertise to help grow ECF’s research portfolio (RISE) more strategically, and facilitate collaboration within and between current ECF grants. Through her grant management of RISE, ECF’s $10 million grant portfolio on implementation research, Chytanya provides technical support, helps troubleshoot roadblocks, and thinks creatively about how to turn positive research results into wide-scale policy change. Chytanya also supports integrating considerations of scalability and sustainability into ECF’s research grants. She played a central role in developing guidance for grantees about how to scale successful projects and ensure interventions outlast ECF’s grants. Additionally, Chytanya supported the launch of ECF’s Uganda Grassroots Nutrition portfolio focused on local capacity building in which she supports local Ugandan community-based organizations implement nutrition behavior change programs.
Previously, Chytanya worked as a nutrition researcher at PATH and Sight & Life, with experience living and working in East and West Africa. She holds a Master of Science in Public Health degree in Human Nutrition from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.