Kumbie Madondo, PhD

Director, CPPS

Kumbie Madondo, PhD, Director, Community Partnerships & Policy Solutions (CPPS) is interested in research related to racial and ethnic disparities in health and, in particular, trends and issues related to food policy, asthma, diabetes, civic engagement and healthcare costs. Dr. Madondo uses a range of methodologies, collecting and analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, primarily in service of projects that aim to improve the health of communities of color, low-income communities, and the marginalized. She is particularly interested in using social network analysis to assess the types and quality of relationships among organizations that promote health equity. As such, she works with community-based organizations and multisector planning bodies to identify and use appropriate metrics for program development, monitoring, and evaluation. Current projects include a four-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded project examining organizational-level factors that drive the implementation and dissemination of food policies and programs across different neighborhoods in New York City.

Dr Madondo was also part of an evaluation of the Claremont Healthy Village Initiative, a cross-sector collaboration focusing on proactively addressing health disparities and sustaining a shared culture of health promotion and well-being in the Bronx’s Claremont community, and a network analysis of 39 community-based organizations addressing community health priorities in neighborhoods facing significant health disparities in New York City. Dr. Madondo was recently the project director for New York City on a European Commission Horizon 2020-funded project examining asthma and diabetes in five European and U.S. cities (Barcelona, Birmingham, Paris, New York City and Singapore).

Prior to joining The New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Madondo evaluated outreach and enrollment strategies used by community-based organizations to facilitate insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act and was principal investigator for a large-scale evaluation of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded project that focused on HIV/AIDS prevention among African American and Latino populations. Dr. Madondo has authored/co-authored many journal articles and publications on program evaluations, including Project ECHO® Evaluation 101: A Practical Guide for Evaluating your Program (2017) and the Kellogg’s Foundation Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers (2017). She earned her PhD in sociology from Virginia Tech University, where she was a recipient of a graduate scholarship from the National Science Foundation.

Contact Info:

• kmadondo@nyam.org
• (212) 822-7322