Chi-Chi Undie

Chi-Chi Undie is a Senior Associate and Technical Director with the Population Council’s International Programs Division. Her research focuses primarily on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and children, as well as on girls’ education. For over a decade, she directed the Population Council-led ‘Africa Regional SGBV Network’—a multi-country, multi-partner SGBV response, research, and research uptake initiative in the East, Horn, Great Lakes, and Southern regions of Africa. Her research and evidence-informed advocacy efforts have influenced policy and practice in the region, leading to the passage of regional resolutions around the adoption of the Network’s SGBV responses into health, police/legal, and education sectors, and to continued regional uptake of evidence-based interventions developed under the Network.

She is the inaugural Board Chair of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and a Together for Girls board member. An International Advisory Board member of the What Works to Prevent Violence – Impact at Scale program, she currently directs two five-year, regional, FCDO-funded research consortia in the Africa region - one centered on sexual and reproductive health and rights in refugee settings, and the other on female genital mutilation/cutting. She holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Maryland.