Summary

Dr. Ayaba Worjoloh completed the Duke Global Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellowship in 2012. She received a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship to study the delivery of group prenatal care in Moshi, Tanzania. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in Human Biology and her MD from Duke University. While in medical training she also received a Master of Science in Public Health with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) at the University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Worjoloh’s family emigrated from Liberia in the 1980s, prior to the country’s long civil war. Since then, Dr. Worjoloh has fostered a vision to return and transform the country, utilizing systematic approaches to improve the health of mothers and babies in sub Saharan Africa. With that dream in mind, she began Duke’s Global Health Fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Worjoloh spent over twelve months working with the Duke-KCMC Women’s Health Collaboration at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania. In addition to collaborating on various ongoing research projects in global women’s health, she developed a mixed methods study to develop and evaluate a group antenatal care (ANC) intervention in health centers in Tanzania.  She is currently a clinician in private practice in Georgia.

GHP Project Related Publications:

• Worjoloh, A., R. Manongi, O. Oneko, C. Hoyo, A.K. Daltveit, and D. Westreich, Trends in cesarean section rates at a large East African referral hospital from 2005-2010. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2012. 2(03): p. 255.
• Homaifar, N., D. Mwesigye, S. Tchwenko, A. Worjoloh, S. Joharifard, P. Kyamanywa, J. Wilkinson, S. Rulisa, and N.M. Thielman, Emergency obstetrics knowledge and practical skills retention among medical students in Rwanda following a short training course. Int J Gynaecol Obstet, 2013. 120(2): p. 195-9.
• Bearnot, B., A. Coria, B.S. Barnett, E.H. Clark, M.G. Gartland, D. Jaganath, E. Mendenhall, L. Seu, A.G. Worjoloh, C.L. Carothers, S.H. Vermund, and D.C. Heimburger, Global health research in narrative: a qualitative look at the FICRS-F experience. Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2014. 91(5): p. 863-8.