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Professor Ndola Prata is a physician from Angola and currently holds the positions of Assistant Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, and Scientific Director in the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability in the School. Her medical degree is from Angola where she practiced for 10 years, and her master's degree in medical demography is from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before arriving in the US, she was head of the social statistics department at the National Institute of Statistics of Angola. Dr. Prata has recently worked in many African countries as well as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Albania and Paraguay. Much of this work has been on the expansion of use of misoprostol to control postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. She is a consultant as Demographer/Analyst for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Division of Reproductive Health. In addition she has worked as a consultant for UNICEF, Save the Children (UK), Population Services International, John Snow International, JHPIEGO and other agencies. She is also the Medical Director of the nonprofit Venture Strategies for Health and Development and a member of its board of directors. Dr Prata has published extensively in areas of family planning, ability to pay and financing of reproductive health programs, adolescent sexual behavior in developing countries, priorities for maternal health and the use of misoprostol to manage postpartum bleeding.

Dr. Prata's current areas of research include:

-community-based distribution of DMPA in Tigray, Ethiopia - -

Dr. Prata's recent publications include:

-Prata N, Sreenivas A, Vahidnia F, Potts M. Saving maternal lives in resource-poor settings: Facing reality. Health Policy. 2009 Feb;89(2):131-48.

-Prata N, Sreenivas A, Bellows B. Potential of dual-use policies to meet family planning and HIV prevention needs: a case study of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care. 2008 Oct;34(4):219-26.

-Campbell M, Cleland J, Ezeh A, Prata N. Public health: Return of the population growth factor. Science. 2007 Mar 16;315(5818):1501-2.

-Prata N, Morris L, Mazive E, Vahidnia F, Stehr M. Relationship between HIV risk perception and condom use: Evidence from a population-based survey in Mozambique. Int Fam Plan Perspect. 2006 Dec;32(4):192-200.

-Potts M, Prata N, Walsh J, Grossman A. Parachute approach to evidence based medicine. BMJ. 2006 Sep 30;333(7570):701-3.