Who We Are
About GH EvaLS
ME&A and its subcontractor, Dexis Consulting Group, are implementing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health Evaluation and Learning Support Activity (GH EvaLS), a five-year USAID Bureau for Global Health Time and Materials (T&M) contract with a $39 million ceiling. GH EvaLS provides evaluation, assessment, and learning support for health-related projects and activities at USAID/Washington and USAID Missions. Projects within the USAID Bureau for Global Health’s portfolio support the U.S. Government’s goals to improve global health through preventing child and maternal deaths; controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and combating infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.
GH EvaLS provides assessments, performance and impact evaluations, and learning and adaptive management services that are transparent, based on the best methods, and oriented towards reinforcing local ownership. This includes four types of evaluations of President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs: process, outcome, economic, and impact. PEPFAR is a U.S. governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The contract also involves coordinating and collaborating, as appropriate, with USAID partners, to build synergies and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of project activities. These include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM); and USAID Bureau for Global Health cooperating agency implementing partners, such as U.S. and international nongovernmental organizations and private corporations and foundations.
For more information on GH EvaLS’ evaluation, assessment, and learning support for health-related projects and activities at USAID/Washington and USAID Missions, please click here. Additionally, for more information on its Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) efforts, including the development of learning agendas through direct support to offices in Missions and in Washington, please click here.
Chief of Party
Andrea Camoens, MPH, MA
Responsible for overall management of GH EvaLS' activities, staff, and relationships with USAID.
Chief of Party Bio
Andrea Camoens has successfully contributed to the management of more than 37 USAID projects around the world, including in challenging operational environments. She has served as Chief of Party (CoP)/Acting CoP in Afghanistan (twice), Iraq (twice), Indonesia, Haiti, Nigeria, Zambia, and Paraguay. Her technical experience includes monitoring and evaluation, gender, health (family planning, reproductive health, supply chain management, and social and behavior change), civil society advocacy, community mobilization, education, and economic growth. Ms. Camoens has two master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York – one in public health and the other in economic development.
Technical Director
Swati Sadaphal, MHS, MD
Provides technical direction and evaluation expertise to ensure the high quality of GH EvaLS' activities.
Technical Director Bio
Dr. Swati Sadaphal is an evaluation expert, physician, and public health specialist and with over 20 years of experience in health system strengthening, infectious diseases, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, reproductive health, and maternal and child health. Over the course of her career, she has supported monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities for USAID, PEPFAR, the CDC, and the Bill and Melina Gates Foundation among others. Dr. Sadaphal earned a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as well as a medical degree from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India.
Project Coordinator
Golder Attor
Supports GH EvaLS staff and teams in providing high quality evaluations, assessment and learning activities.
Project Coordinator Bio
Golder Attor supports GH EvalS as a Project Coordinator. She is a 2022 graduate of Drew University in Madison, N.J., where she earned a B.A. magna cum laude double majoring in Business and Public Health. Her educational focus was the intersection of the disparities in the healthcare system and disease control and its effect on marginalized groups, including refugees and immigrants. At Drew University, she was co-president of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, director of logistics for the Model United Nations, and treasurer of the African Student Association. Ms. Attor also volunteered with the North Jersey Alternatives to Policing Task Force.
