Jonna is a PhD student and research fellow on the impact evaluation of the Plus Project. Her doctoral degree research is focused on the social determinants of health of perennial malaria chemoprevention

She completed her MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM in 2019/2020 after a year serving with AmeriCorps as a prenatal patient advocate in a historically under-resourced community in Philadelphia.

Following the MSc, she completed a monitoring and evaluation fellowship within the center for global health at the U.S. CDC.