Ms. Nancy Lowenthal serves as the Country Representative for USAID in Côte d’Ivoire. She joined USAID as a Health Officer in 2007 and has served in Mozambique (HIV/AIDS Team Leader, 2008-2011), Mali (Health Office Director, 2011-2013), Nigeria (Health, Population, Nutrition Office Director, 2013-2017), and Pakistan (Program Officer, 2017-2018). Prior to joining USAID, she worked for the Louisiana Office of Public Health and the Louisiana State University School of Medicine, the UN (WHO and UNICEF), Johns Hopkins University (with a fellowship at USAID/Niger), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo. Ms. Lowenthal also worked for USAID/Global Health Bureau as a senior health technical advisor from 2003-2007.

She holds a PhD in maternal and child health epidemiology from Tulane University, Master of Public Health in behavior change from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the State University of New York - Buffalo.