Teegwendé Valérie Porgo is a World Bank Task Team Leader in the West Africa Health, Nutrition, and Population Unit. She earned her PhD in epidemiology from Laval University (2018) and was a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University (2022–2023), where she worked on health financing projects. She leverages her expertise in high-quality analysis to inform evidence-based decision-making for human capital development and efficient health sector financial management across various countries. Her research has been published in prestigious journals like Research Synthesis Methods, Value in Health, PLOS Medicine, Annals of Surgery, and Age and Ageing.