Katia Domingues, MPH, is the PEN-Plus Program Manager for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she earned certificates in Monitoring and Evaluation of International Programs and in Humanitarian Health. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in community health from Tufts University. In addition to her work with PEN-Plus, Domingues is a part-time epidemiologist at a local health department in Massachusetts.

Prior to joining the NCDI Poverty Network, Domingues served as a COVID-19 Case Investigator Lead for the Portuguese-speaking division of the Internal Language Line at the Community Tracing Collaborative, a joint program of Partners In Health and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At the same time, she served on Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 Training Initiative team as a student intern and helped create training modules for local boards of health on pandemic response.

Domingues served in the Peace Corps as a community health services promoter in Chicumbane, Mozambique, where she helped train health workers at the district hospital in data collection of infectious diseases. While there, she also trained Mozambican community-based organizations in grant writing and successfully acquired two grants to start a health literacy project and community library initiative in the village she served.