Eva Roca

Implementation Science Advisor, Center on Gender Equity and Health at UC San Diego

Eva Roca is an Implementation Science Advisor at the Center on Gender Equity and Health at UC San Diego. There she works as a researcher and advisor on the Agency for All and Gender LEAD projects, with a focus on better understanding collective agency, facilitating research utilization, and advising on integration of gender norms in programming. She has over 20 years of experience doing program-relevant research around the world, with expertise in adolescent health, gender norms and analysis, mental health, migration, sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV, and child, early, and forced marriage. She has experience with qualitative, participatory, and statistical methods including multilevel modeling and GIS. She has collaborated with partners around the world to develop and refine context-specific, evidence-informed programs for adolescent girls and others from often-marginalized populations. Eva has worked with a range of organizations including the Population Council, UNICEF, the International Center for Research on Women, and has also served as a consultant in philanthropy. She holds a PhD in Public Health from New York University, an MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BS in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University. In her free time, you will often find Eva catching a concert, finding a new place to explore, or helping build the next generation of fierce feminist change-makers with her Girl Scout troop.