Allison Jeffery

Allison Jeffery is a humanitarian protection professional with a decade of experience advancing safety, health, and wellbeing for children, women, and crisis-affected communities. Her background spans technical advising, program strategy, research, training facilitation, and policy development across NGOs, government, and academic institutions.

Allison was most recently a Protection Advisor with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (via contractor) and Associate Faculty in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to BHA, she worked with Save the Children as a Humanitarian Child Protection Advisor and in the Peace Corps in Guatemala as a Maternal & Child Health Volunteer. She holds a Master’s in Public Health with a concentration in Humanitarian Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in International Relations and Spanish from Tufts University. Allison is based in Washington, DC.

Allison sits in the very highest tier of my accomplished alumni, distinguished not only for her breadth of domestic and international experience, but for her character and passionate commitment in the service to others. She was the first in her family to gain a university degree, nourished by wonderful parents, and was known by her student peers as one of the most generous and thoughtful of people. Her intellectual curiosity, clearly marked her for great accomplishments. She is a person of great character and integrity, who unfailingly in her collaborative efforts within EPIIC and in her individual research, demonstrated both her great respect for team efforts and her academic rigor.