Peace Njoku · MPH Candidate · PMP
Public health strategist, researcher, and speaker. I turn program data into answers organizations can act on, and I talk about the career that got me here.
About
I'm Peace Njoku, a Nigerian-American public health strategist and researcher based between Atlanta, Georgia and Nigeria.
I've asked the same question in very different rooms: is this program working, and how would we know? I've asked it on federal contracts, in a large school district, in community health across West Africa, and now in global health research in Nigeria.
What ties it together is the data. I build the surveys, run the numbers, and design the dashboards myself, so you get findings I can stand behind and reports your team can keep using after I leave.
I'm an MPH candidate in Global Health at Emory University, and I run ASARE LLC, a public health consulting firm in Atlanta.
For years I was told that path looked scattered. Now it's what I get asked to speak about most: how to build a career that adds up instead of starting over. People call me the Pivot Queen.
Advocacy names the problem. Systems are what fix it. The work is building ones that can pivot when the ground shifts.
Studying the system is the research. Fixing it is the consulting.
Part one. I study the systems
All of my research is community-based. I work with the people a program is meant to serve: pregnant women in a Nigerian clinic, students under strain, communities living with a policy someone else wrote. I build the evidence from what they actually say.
Ask the people affected. Count carefully. Write it so someone can act on it.
Evaluating a new screening program at Rivers State University Teaching Hospital. I surveyed pregnant women and hospital staff to learn what families know, what they would accept, and what gets in the way. Designed the survey, collected the data, ran the analysis.
A survey study of student mental health at the Rollins School of Public Health, covering sampling design, data management, analysis, and visualization in R.
A brief addressed to Nigeria's Federal Minister of Health, calling for a phased national newborn screening program for sickle cell disease, modeled on Ghana's partnership-driven rollout and moving from local pilots to full national coverage by 2030. Nigeria records an estimated 150,000 SCD births a year, and most go undetected in the years when detection matters most.
Papers in progress
Training & credentials
Part two. I fix the systems
A public health consulting firm. We help organizations understand their data, prove their programs work, and win the funding to keep going.
Most organizations have more data than they can use. It sits in survey exports, grant reports, and spreadsheets nobody owns, and none of it answers the question the board asked last quarter. That's the work we do.
Your raw data, turned into numbers you can defend.
Best for teams sitting on data nobody has analyzed
An honest answer to whether your program is working.
Best for programs facing a funder review or renewal
A complete, submission-ready application.
Best for government and foundation solicitations
Your existing data, in a report a board reads in ten minutes.
Best for annual reports and renewal season
Sectors
Emory University
Evaluating a new newborn screening program at a teaching hospital in Nigeria, covering surveys, data collection, and analysis.
DeKalb County School District
Manage a federally funded school-based mental health (SBMH) grant, covering budget, reporting, and coordination across schools.
U.S. Department of Justice
Managed website modernization projects across distributed technical teams. PMP-certified.
Univar Solutions
Forecast demand and supply, and built the reporting leadership planned against.
Expertise
Resume
The Pivot Queen
Talks and workshops on building a career that adds up instead of starting over.
Federal contracting. Supply chain. A school district. Community health in West Africa. Global health research and consulting. For years that looked scattered.
It isn't scattered. It adds up.
The advice runs one way, especially for African diaspora professionals: pick a lane and stay in it. But the people doing the most interesting work are rarely the ones who did. They can read a budget, run the numbers, sit with a community, and write the proposal, because they've been all four places.
I talk about how to make a pivot make sense to the people hiring you, and how to build a career that adds up instead of resetting every time you move.
How to tell the story of a winding career so hiring managers hear strategy, not indecision.
For African diaspora professionals carrying degrees and credentials across two countries at once.
Starting a consulting practice when you're tired of waiting for a seat at someone else's table.
A working session on turning the data you already have into funding.
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