Sridevi Prasad

Sridevi provides technical support to several programs across 3ie’s offices. She currently leads 3ie’s Virtual Trainings Initiative, which seeks to develop capacity building resources in impact evaluation methodology for researchers and policymakers. Sridevi also led evidence mapping research on the associations between water, sanitation, and hygiene achievements and higher-level outcomes related to prosperity, stability and resilience for USAID’s Center for Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene. She also is leading the creation of a checklist to guide researchers in designing replication studies and sensitivity analyses. She is currently providing technical support to an impact evaluation within the financial sector for the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. She is the program manager for the Strengthening Evidence and Economic Modelling Partnership with MCC. Within this partnership, she has led technical activities on water and sanitation as well as performance-based contracting. Sridevi also conducted two replication studies under the HIV Combination Prevention program.

Prior to joining 3ie, Sridevi conducted research assessing hypertension control using secondary data from South Africa. She also conducted primary research on water quality in Ghana, Kenya and Mali. Sridevi also has project management and business development experience from her time working at University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies.

She has a Master’s in Public Health, specializing in Monitoring & Evaluation as well as Epidemiology and Biostatistics, from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.