Joseph Barboza is a physician and public health specialist with fifteen years of experience in Senegal, both as a health district chief physician and in senior project management roles at IntraHealth International.

Barboza joined IntraHealth in 2014 and led the Global Fund’s Strengthening and Expanding Interventions for a Consolidation of Control for a Pre-eradication of Malaria project in Senegal before becoming the director of the Novartis Foundation’s Better Hearts Better Cities initiative in Dakar, Senegal.

He earned his doctorate in medicine and master of public health degrees from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal.