Partner Focus Area: Non-Communicable Diseases

Yoonhee Ryder is a Community Health and Malaria Prevention Peace Corps volunteer serving in a small, rural village in the central region of Togo, West Africa. Finishing up her first year of service, Yoonhee works mainly in child and maternal health but also leads several cross-sectoral initiatives focusing on food security and gender. Before Peace Corps, Yoonhee graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.S. in Biology, with minors in Chemistry and Middle Eastern Studies. As an undergraduate student, Yoonhee served as a Sparkman Global Health fellow, worked at the NGO AIDS Alabama, and studied abroad in Dubai, Fiji, and South Korea.