Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, MPH, Ph.D.

Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Ph.D., MPH, is first and foremost grounded in her cultural identity as a Ghanaian-American and embraces her other intersectional facets of being a wife and mom in her work. She is a former board member of AcademyHealth, a member of the Education Council, author of a children’s book, and consultant. As a community scholar-activist, she found her path from engineering into public health, and her work has involved engaging national mobile clinic programs to study community-based healthcare models to present evidence to inform policies in this area of care. As a poet, speaker, and facilitator, Dr. Attipoe-Dorcoo has also presented at several conferences, published several poems and articles, and co-facilitated virtual trainings. The vision for her work is deeply rooted in culturally responsive and equitable tools for co-designing research and evaluation initiatives with communities, which she has manifested by leading both national and international research and evaluation projects. Dr. Attipoe-Dorcoo is a member of the Advancing Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation Network and has a certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the University of South Florida. She was recently voted as a parent member of the local school council in Forsyth County. Dr. Attipoe-Dorcoo is currently a Senior Service Fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.