Karah Fazekas Pedersen is a former senior technical manager at IntraHealth International. She has more than fifteen years of experience in global health and development with an unrelenting focus on improving cross-country and global collaboration and learning.

Karah recently served as the senior manager of Ipas’s Youth Program (2013-2016) where she led technical, program, and organizational development strategies to increase young people’s role in Ipas’s programs. Karah also served the knowledge services manager at FHI 360 (2010-2013) where she managed internal learning and knowledge exchange projects. Prior to that, she’s worked in development, digital health, training, research utilization, and service delivery improvement for reproductive health and HIV programs.

Karah is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she completed a master’s degree in public health with a focus on health education. She’s lived in Rajastan, India, and now calls North Carolina her home.