Alejo Carbajal
Global Health Partnership Coordinator
Alejo Carbajal, MPH serves as the new Global Health Partnership 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 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. He also ensured CQII activities were approved by federal funding partners; assisted in COVID-19 data cleaning for the Capital Region of New York State and facilitated a bi-monthly skill-sharing program between U.S. and Ugandan health providers to reduce common barriers 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 towards mine workers and their families with the aim of connecting these remotely-located populations to health services as well as improving retention to care and medication adherence. In this role, he conducted data quality checks reviewing hundreds of study forms to results in the study database. He also led the in-country qualitative coding efforts of both in-depth interviews and focus group discussions while working with a multidisciplinary team. While in Lesotho, Alejo was chosen along with other trainees and public health professionals to attend an implementation science workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. 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.