Lydia Trupe
Lydia takes complex issues and methodically guides our team towards answers.
An epidemiologist by training and behavioural designer by nature, she has spent most of her career designing and evaluating health programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. Before Common Thread, Lydia worked with ideas42, designing reproductive health programming in Senegal, studying intimate partner violence prevention strategies in India, and understanding how to build empathy between health providers and their clients in Zambia. Whether buried in a dataset or chatting with a couple about their children’s health, Lydia is constantly trying to understand how context shapes people’s decisions.
Lydia holds a MPH from the University of Cape Town and a BA in Political Science and Public Health from George Washington University. She is a part-time lecturer at the University of Zambia School of Public Health.
Outside of work, you can find her outdoors—tending her (slowly) budding vegetable garden in Lusaka, trying not to be thrown off her horses, or deftly avoiding crocodiles on the Zambezi river.