Anneka Wickramanayake

Anneka Wickramanayake is director of research, evaluation and design at Jacaranda Health, overseeing the research and data & analytics departments. She has developed an innovative portfolio of mixed methods research methodologies for evaluating scaled AI-enabled solutions, incorporating principles of model evaluation, piloting, implementation research and impact evaluation. She also specializes in human-centered design methodologies for technology. 

Anneka brings experience in development research and analytics, and monitoring and evaluation, having worked in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Jacaranda Health, she worked in Ethiopia as research director for Laterite, managing full-cycle research consultancies. Before that, she was monitoring and evaluation specialist for the American Refugee Committee in Rwanda, leading the M&E strategy and assessing the standard of health care provided. Anneka holds an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley.