Daryl Stephens

Daryl Stephens is an applied medical anthropologist specializing in maternal and reproductive health and is passionate about access to affordable, accessible, and equitable health care. She brings a decade of experience coordinating and working with international teams, developing institutional and community partnerships, and conducting mixed-methods research in the USA and Uganda. Daryl holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Applied Anthropology. For over five years, she worked in southwestern Uganda as a Supervisor for the Minority Health International Research Training program, exploring issues around community-based health financing, access to maternal health care, and uptake of cervical cancer screenings. From 2019-2020, she served as a Global Health Corps Fellow on the USAID RHITES-E Activity in Uganda, supporting monitoring and evaluation for community-based organizations and research on a behavior-change-driven family planning intervention. Most recently, she worked as a New Program Development Manager at Jhpiego, where she supported the Southern Africa and Maternal and Neonatal Health teams in developing strategic proposals for innovative programmatic and research opportunities.