Alejo Carbajal
Partnership Coordinator | Center for Global Health
alejo.carbajal@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
215-898-0848
Alejo Carbajal, MPH serves as the Global Health Partnerships Coordinator at the Center for Global Health. In this role, Alejo provides strategic input and programmatic support for all CGH research and new venture activities of CGH, including analysis of existing and potential new partners, planning and implementing new partnership activities, sourcing funding opportunities, and providing administrative support to ongoing and new partnership opportunities. Alejo works closely with Center leadership in managing the Center's scholar program, which aims to engage our extraordinary global health thought-leaders and practitioners based on their affiliation with CGH and professional interests. Please reach out for more information about our CGH Scholar program.
Alejo joined CGH from the New York State AIDS Institute’s Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation (CQII), where he worked as a Public Health Specialist. At CQII, Alejo played a key role in the development and launch of a multi-state learning collaborative centered around creating equity in HIV care.
While in training, Alejo was a Columbia University ICAP Next Generation Scholar stationed for 6 months in Lesotho where he assisted in the implementation of HIV and TB interventions geared toward mine workers and their families and aimed to connect these remotely located populations to health services and improve medication adherence.
Alejo earned his BS in Microbiology at Kansas State University and his MPH at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, with a concentration in Epidemiology and Global Public Health.