Dorothy Echodu

About Dorothy Echodu

Dr. Dorothy Echodu is the CEO of Pilgrim Africa, a 501(c)3 engaged in malaria control, operational research and education in Uganda. In the decade she\'s worked with Pilgrim Africa, she has led and overseen the organization\'s engagement in malaria. Pilgrim Africa focuses on community-scale field exercises using both tested and novel approaches to comprehensive control in high burden areas, and has a special interest in building local infrastructure for vector control. Aware of the high human and economic toll caused by ongoing tolerance of high morbidity as well as mortality, Pilgrim Africa continually strives for just, economically realistic solutions to the need for more malaria control. Currently, Pilgrim Africa is pleased to partner with Rotary International, Rotarian Malaria Partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and PMI on an multi-year project to bring comprehensive control to a rural, highly endemic region in northeastern Uganda. Dorothy is also engaged and interested in pedagogy for innovation. Uganda is the world\'s youngest country, with a median age of 15, and high youth unemployment. Since 2006, Pilgrim Africa has operated a large secondary school in eastern Uganda which specializes in S.T.E.M. disciplines, and partners with U Mass, Columbia, the Harvard Innovation Lab, SPU, KHS and other institutions to bring innovative programs in aquaculture, sustainable engineering, physics education, and robotics. Dorothy trained as a physical chemist with degrees from Yale (BA) and UW (PhD) and her work experience includes basic research into HIV-1 RNA, physics education research, and cross-cultural communication of values. She sits on the board of Domaine Clarence Dillon, and is a member of the vestry of St. Barnabas Anglican Church.Specialties: Operational malaria control and elimination strategies; operational research into control interventions in high burden countries; vector control in low resource settings; partnership development

Experience

1. CEO

   Pilgrim Africa

   Jan 2012 — Present

Education

• Yale University

  BA, English, Biochemistry

  1986 — 1990

• University of Washington

  PhD, Physical Chemistry

  2003 — 2009

• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  Master of Public Health - MPH, Epidemiology

Skills

• Non-Profits
• Program Development
• Philanthropy
• Strategic Planning
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Vendor Management
• Research
• Conflict Resolution
• Public Speaking
• Fundraising
• Grant Writing
• Policy Analysis
• Volunteer Management
• Ngos
• Program Evaluation
• Global Health
• Nonprofits
• Organizational Development
• Grants
• Program Management
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Capacity Building