Ndifreke Ikpe is the Civic Science Fellow for Race and Clinical Algorithms at the Council of Medical Specialty Societies. In this role, Ndifreke supports the health equity work of CMSS by collaborating with our member societies to support shared learning and best practices across society stakeholders, including staff and volunteer leaders that oversee equity, clinical guidelines and algorithms, research, informatics, and publishing. Ndifreke’s activities empower CMSS and specialty societies to build capacity to enable race-conscious clinical guidelines and algorithms that inform equitable clinical practice and clinical decision-making.
Previously, Ndifreke served as a Senior Associate at the Aspen Institute where she supported the development of program strategy and work plans for the continuous improvement of the Health Innovators Fellowship program. Ndifreke also served as a Maternal Mental Health Clinical Care Coordinator at the Joseph J. Peters Institute. As the primary liaison across multiple partnerships, she communicated strategies for the improvement of mental health outcomes. She later developed a centralized intake system to improve clinical care coordination of services.
Ndifreke received a Master of Health Administration from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from West Chester University of PA.