Ouleye Ndoye

Office of National AIDS Policy | Washington, D.C.

Ouleye Ndoye is a global leader in health and human rights with over a decade of experience in government, non-profits, and academia. She has worked, taught, and studied in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and at home in the USA. 

Ndoye is currently pursuing her doctorate in public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has received the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship to study in Cairo, Egypt, and through the Institute for International Public Policy (IIPP) Fellowship, she worked with African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, Israel, and administering a USAID grant on behalf of the “10,000 girls” project, through the Women’s Health Education and Prevention Strategies Alliance in rural Senegal.

As a Luce Scholar, Ndoye spent over a year in Southeast Asia, rehabilitating child survivors of sex-trafficking in Thailand's Chiang Rai province. She later collaborated with The Partnership for Freedom in Atlanta, serving as the City of Atlanta’s inaugural Senior Human Trafficking Fellow. Subsequently, she advised the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, developing best practices for responding to agricultural labor trafficking and outlining a guidebook for state law enforcement training. 

Service is central to Ndoye’s mission in life. She served on the Board of Directors for Wellspring Living, a residential center providing rehabilitative care for sex trafficking victims, and Motherhood Beyond Bars, supporting incarcerated pregnant women and their babies in Georgia. Her research continues through the Maternal Health Leadership Lab at Harvard.

Born and raised in upstate New York, Ndoye graduated summa cum laude from Spelman College and earned master’s degrees from the University of Oxford and Columbia University. Her greatest accomplishment is being the proud mother of two children. Her favorite activities include swimming with her children and enjoying anything near, on, or in the water.