Karah Fazekas Pedersen is a global health and development strategist with more than twenty years of experience working for mission-driven nonprofits. Karah currently leads IntraHealth’s business development department where she brings her passion for locally led development to guide the organization’s new business and partnership efforts. Karah has also served as IntraHealth’s chief of staff and as a senior program manager overseeing a portfolio of MNCH, HIV/AIDS, and family planning projects.

Karah has previously served as the executive director of dissemination at Family Connects International overseeing the scaling of an evidence-based family and child health program. From 2013 to 2016, Karah led the Youth Program at Ipas, greatly expanding Ipas’s youth-centered reproductive health programming. She also served in several roles at FHI 360 from 2007 to 2013, including as knowledge services manager where she managed organizational knowledge sharing and project documentation efforts. 

Karah is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she completed a master’s degree in public health with a focus on health education. She has previously lived in Rajasthan, India, and now calls North Carolina her home.