Ndola Prata, MD, MSc, is the Director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability. She is a physician and medical demographer from Angola. She is a Professor in Residence in Maternal and Child Health and the second holder of the Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a co-founder and director of a new collaborative, Innovations for Youth at UC Berkeley.