Carol Baume holds a Ph.D. in International Development Education and Communication, an EDS in evaluation and an MA in International Development Education, all from Stanford University. She is a specialist in applied research for project design and evaluation, particularly for health/nutrition communication and behavior change interventions, and she has numerous publications. She has considerable experience in public-private partnerships and in heading both market and behavioral research. Her three years at Wellstart International prior to joining AED give her particular expertise in breastfeeding and child feeding. She has field experience in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the former Soviet Union.
Karabi Acharya, ScD, public health anthropologist, is currently a senior program officer at AED and an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She has worked for over 15 years in the area of intra-household decision-making and their effects on health and nutrition outcomes for women and children, conducting participatory, qualitative, and quantitative research and evaluation. She developed a community-planning process that pairs a household survey with a participatory approach that has been used in four countries in Africa and Latin America. She has wide field experience in Africa and Asia through the BASICS I and II, Health Communication Partnership, and GreenCOM projects. She is now working on gender norms as a determinant of reproductive health behaviors, and the evaluation of agriculture projects in Morocco and Kenya using social network analysis. She speaks some French and Bengali.
Victoria Michener, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the FANTA project, is a social scientist specializing in strategic planning and performance measurement of USAID programs across a variety of sectors including agriculture, natural resource management, microcredit, health, labor, gender equity, education, and democracy and governance. She has extensive experience developing and analyzing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. Before joining FANTA, she was the activity development and monitoring and evaluation officer for the USAID country mission to Guinea. She has a Master’s degree in Anthropology and a Certificate in Women in Development from the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is fluent in French.
Reena Borwankar holds an M.S. degree in Applied Nutrition and Food Policy with a concentration in Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation from the Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She has experience in quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methods. For six years at AED, she has supported multiple research and evaluation studies for health projects including the LINKAGES project. Currently as a Program Officer for Monitoring and Analysis for the Africa's Health in 2010 project, she supports the maternal and newborn health, reproductive health, and child survival technical areas in addition to providing M&E support across all technical areas, including nutrition. She speaks Hindi, Marathi, and some Spanish.
Geeta Nanda, DrPH, is a Research Officer at GHPN. Her areas of expertise include maternal and reproductive health, nutrition, monitoring and evaluation, and quantitative research methodologies. At AED, Dr. Nanda has provided research support to various projects including LINKAGES, HCP, and A2Z. Formerly, Dr. Nanda consulted for the World Bank and the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program. She received her DrPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University and her MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins University. Her doctoral research examined the utilization of professional delivery care among rural women with obstetric complications in south India. She speaks some Spanish, Hindi, and Tamil.
Jay Ross holds a Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology from Cornell University. His areas of expertise include maternal nutrition, infant/child growth, and estimating the economic and functional consequences of malnutrition. He has 20 years of experience in international nutrition including four years spent coordinating nutrition programs in Papua New Guinea for Save the Children (UK). Recently his work has focused on national nutrition policy analysis and advocacy in over a dozen Asian and Africa countries, and the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding. He speaks French.
Nadra Franklin, Ph.D., is Director of the Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative for AED's Global Health, Nutrition and Population Group. She was M&E Manager for AED's LINKAGES Project, responsible for the full M&E reporting of project activities, both at country and global levels. Under LINKAGES, Dr. Franklin coordinated 45 surveys dealing with country programs and provided impact-level results data to USAID and project process and impact data for USAID SO reporting. Formerly at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, she was Principal Investigator of a study in Northern Ghana dealing with marriage practices for the Navrongo Health Research Center. For three years, she was Africare's Associate Program Manager for West Africa. While at Michigan, Dr. Franklin helped design ongoing research to better capture HIV-related effects of race and class among U.S. minorities. She has done population research in Egypt, and speaks fair Arabic and fair French.
Alison Tumilowicz, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition M&E Specialist for FANTA, is a nutritionist with expertise in both epidemiology and anthropology. Alison's professional experience includes consulting with the World Bank and CARE Guatemala; conducting formative research for an iron supplementation project with the Instituto de Educación Integral para la Salud y El Desarrollo in Guatemala; and evaluating a child nutrition project of the Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement Program in the Philippines. She holds a MPH from U.C. Berkeley and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
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