Allison R. Cantor, PhD, MA/MPH, CPH - Evaluation Specialist and Medical Anthropologist
Allison is an evaluation specialist and medical anthropologist with expertise in qualitative methods and analysis and participatory approaches to public health research and evaluation.
Allison completed a PhD in Applied Anthropology and a master’s degree in public health at the University of South Florida in 2016, with a focus on maternal nutrition and food insecurity in the context of international development.
She is a dynamic mixed methods researcher and evaluator, with experience in maternal and child health, water and sanitation, reproductive health, and food insecurity and nutrition.
Allison is an experienced leader in interdisciplinary team management, working for academic and non-profit organizations in various roles that include Academic Director and Evaluation Team Lead. Allison is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of anthropology at New Mexico State University and a research affiliate at the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica.
She has worked in international development as an evaluation specialist and qualitative methods expert for international humanitarian organizations, community-based non-profits, and other development organizations. As the team lead, Allison evaluated Médecins Sans Frontières’ U.S. Covid-19 intervention across 7 sites, as well as the Primary and Sexual Reproductive Health Intervention in Anzoátegui, Venezuela.
Allison started with hera in 2020 and has contributed to numerous assignments, including an assessment of WHO’s Quality of Care Network, External Validation of UNFPA’s results based financing, and feminist participatory action research with Plan International on gender and climate change in the Sahel region. Allison’s roles have included qualitative methods support, project director, and Sierra Leone mission lead. Allison became an associate in 2023.
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