Alfredo Fort

Dr Alfredo L. Fort is a Public and Community Health physician, researcher and evaluator, specialized in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health, family planning, and population and gender equality. He has conducted population and facility based survey and questionnaire design, analysis and evidence generation for policy decision-making in many low and middle income countries. He holds a medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University in Peru, and an MSc (Community Health) and PhD (Demography and Population) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.

Dr Fort was until recently Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Adviser at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York.

Dr Fort is also adjunct professor at the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, USA, and at the Medicine Faculty of Cayetano Heredia University, Perú. He is also guest lecturer, examiner or tutor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, George Washington University, USA, Geneva University, Switzerland, and others. Dr Fort has written and published on a variety of topics, from biomedical to epidemiological, information systems, human resources and psychosocial aspects of health, among others.