Kalina Duncan, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.

Kalina Duncan, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., joined the Center for Global Health (CGH) in 2013 and currently serves as the Director of the Partnerships and Dissemination (P&D) Branch. In this role, Kalina helps the branch achieve strategic objectives to develop, plan, and deploy rigorous analyses, partnerships, and unique dissemination programs, by facilitating opportunities, providing leadership and vision, forging connections, and supporting P&D experts as they lead programs. Kalina has extensive experience building partnerships with Ministries of Health and cancer research and control organizations in low- and middle-income countries to develop, cost, and implement cancer control plans and strengthen cancer and risk factor surveillance and research.

Dr. Duncan joined the NCI in 2011 as a Presidential Management Fellow and spent two years in a variety of U.S. government offices including the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the NCI, the Office of International Health and Biodefense in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and the Fogarty International Center at the NIH. Proceeding, Kalina spent six years leading legislative, advocacy, and community engagement programs at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a U.S. civil rights non-profit in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Duncan received a Doctorate of Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina, where her dissertation research was focused on strengthening health systems and cervical cancer prevention programs in Zambia. Kalina received her Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) with a concentration in health policy and a certificate in global health systems from the Yale School of Public Health. Hailing from Salt Lake City, Kalina earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in communication and gender studies from the University of Utah.