Hedwige Deconinck has more than 18 years of experience in emergency health and nutrition as an academic researcher, WHO staff member and program manager with the International Committee of the Red Cross and Save the Children. Most recently she served as Senior Emergency Nutrition Specialist at Save the Children where she was responsible for developing an emergency health and nutrition strategy and a global capacity building strategy for SC US health staff, developing and implementing emergency nutrition programming, and developing guidelines, tools and protocols for quality nutrition programming. She holds a MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, a MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a MPH in Developing Countries. Her mother tongue is Dutch; she is fluent in English and French and conversant in Arabic, German and Spanish.

Serigne M. Diene, Ph.D., has over 30 years of experience in the design and implementation of community-based nutrition programs, action research/program evaluation, nutrition policy analysis and advocacy, as well as micronutrient/fortification and HIVand nutrition. He is currently working with the Africa's Health in 2010 Project, and is project director for the UNICEF-funded project on Participatory Action Research on Avian Influenza. From 2002 to 2004 he was Nutrition Team Leader for BASICS II based in Arlington and from 1995-2002 was the BASICS Regional Nutrition Advisor in West Africa, based in Dakar. He was visiting professor at the regional Institute for Public Health, Benin, and the University of Dakar from 1999-2002 and has also taught Maternal and Child Nutrition and International Nutrition at Cornell. He is from Senegal and speaks French, English, and Wolof.

Fred Grant has developed and implemented nutrition, maternal and child health, and reproductive health programs in emergency and development settings in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, and Zambia.  His work on the FANTA Project focuses on emergency nutrition, nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and food aid commodities.  He currently is developing counseling materials for nutritional care and support of HIV/AIDS, community-based therapeutic care (CTC) training materials, and is conducting a review of CTC programs as well as technical review of food aid commodities and the Commodities Reference Guide.  Fred has an MPH degree from Tulane University and speaks French.

Dorcas Lwanga  M.Sc. RD, is a nutritionist with the Africa's Health in 2010 Project. At AED since 2000, she works in nutrition and HIV/AIDS and maternal and child nutrition in Africa.  She has provided technical assistance to African institutions, NGOs, and other partners on nutritional care and support of PLWHA and HIV+ pregnant and lactating women, HIV and infant feeding, and PMTCT.  Ms Lwanga has developed an interactive tutorial and a pre-service training module on nutritional care and support of HIV+ pregnant and lactating women in limited-resource settings, and similar tutorials for a pre-service training manual for nurses and midwives in Africa.  She has also developed counseling materials and job aids for use by community-based workers.  Ms. Lwanga is a native of Uganda. She speaks French.

Robert Mwadime holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Development Planning from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, a Masters in Applied Human Nutrition (Nutrition Economics), University of Nairobi, Kenya, and a MPH from Johns Hopkins University.  Working in both academia and NGOs, he has worked over the last decade in designing and implementing training programs/courses in child health and nutrition, participatory review and evaluation of community interventions, and monitoring and evaluation.  He presently works for the FANTA project, based at the Makerere University Regional Center for the Quality of Health Care.  He has lived and worked extensively throughout Eastern Africa.

Nomajoni Ntombela, MBA, RN, ScM, is a native of Swaziland with over 30 years of experience in reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, infant and maternal nutrition, policy and advocacy, and communication and counseling. She has provided technical assistance on PMTCT to countries in sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF, WHO, and WABA and is recognized as a global leader in infant feeding and PMTCT. As Resident Advisor of the LINKAGES program in Zambia from 1998 to 2002, she led the development and implementation of the Ndola Demonstration Project, which addressed PMTCT through clinic and community interventions. Ms. Ntombela is a Senior Regional Advisor for Health, Nutrition, and HIV for AED. She  holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and is a registered nurse and certified midwife trained in Durban, South Africa.

Jill Randell, has an MS and MEd in Nutrition from Columbia University.  She has more than 35 years experience working in maternal, infant and child health and nutrition issues and programs both in the domestic and international arena.  Specific work has focused on behavior change, breastfeeding policy and promotion, complementary feeding, anemia, school-based iron supplementation, and health education.  She has lived in Nepal, Philippines, Pakistan , and Egypt, and has worked in Ghana, Ethiopia, Gaza West Bank, and South Africa. She has worked domestically at the federal, states and local levels on federal food assistance programs, including testing innovative interventions for community nutrition education. She is currently Deputy Director of AED's Center for Global Health Communication and Marketing.

Sandra Remancus holds an MS in International Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from Tufts University.  She has over 20 years of experience with nutrition, food security, HIV/AIDS prevention and care and support, social marketing, refugee programs and monitoring and evaluation.  She is currently focused on the integration of food and nutrition activities into HIV/AIDS programming for the FANTA Project.  She spent eight years living and working in West and Central Africa and is fluent in French.

Tina Sanghvi, Ph.D. has worked as technical advisor in international nutrition and public health programs for the past 27 years.  Starting as a field officer for CARE in India and Peru where she worked in community nutrition/health/education programs, she later worked as USAID's principal technical officer for Maternal and Infant Nutrition.  She played a key role in BASICS I and II, VITAL, OMNI and LAC HNS projects that implemented micronutrient programs and studies in over 20 countries. She is the author of several books and published articles, and has presented scientific papers at international conferences on topics such as micronutrients, IYCF, food fortification, food aid, and economic analysis.  She is the lead author of Nutrition Essentials - A Guide for Health Managers. Dr. Sanghvi has worked in many countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.  She speaks English, Hindi, and Spanish.

Eleonore Fosso Seumo is a nutritionist with 20 years of experience in health sector management, training, and capacity-building. She has expertise in formative research, infant feeding, essential nutrition actions, nutrition and HIV/AIDS, maternal nutrition, behavior change communication, qualitative and quantitative research, and participatory action research. Dr. Fosso Seumo has worked on child survival, primary health care, and water and sanitation in Africa. She holds  MS and PhD degrees from Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has completed post-doctoral work in nutrition and public health at the CNAM, Paris, France. She presently provides assistance to a range of projects at AED, and hosts the electronic forum ProNut-HIV, a joint collaboration of AED's Center for Nutrition and the AED-Satellife Center for Health Information and Technology.

Agnès Guyon holds a medical degree from Marseille and a MPH degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  Her areas of expertise include infant feeding, maternal and child health, micronutrients, child survival, and essential drug supply systems.  She is also an expert in the VIPP methodology for participatory planning.  Over the past two decades she has worked for Medecins Sans Frontiers, UNICEF, Peace Corps, as well as many USAID funded projects (including the LINKAGES Project) and NGOs.  She has worked extensively in Africa as well as in South Asia, and is a native French speaker.

Helen Stiefel Heymann holds a Masters of Medical Sciences in Human Nutrition from the University of Sheffield and a Masters of Sciences in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.  She has worked for six years for UNDP in Switzerland, Asia, and New York.  For the past five years, she has been working at AED as the PROFILES Manager and has been providing health technical expertise to various projects in the area of nutrition, malaria, maternal and child health, micronutrient interventions, and health economics. Dr. Heymann has solid skills in policy analysis, strategy development and advocacy; communications including media development and dissemination; social mobilization and application of participatory approaches; qualitative research methods; curriculum development and training facilitation; epidemiological modeling; design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of integrated health development programs; and new business development. A native French speaker, she also speaks German and Spanish.

Omar Dary holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside, and a licentiate degree in Biology from the National University in Guatemala. He has worked with governments and food companies around the world to fortify products with micronutrients, design and introduce complementary foods, and monitor and evaluate programs and micronutrient status in populations. He is also an expert in government regulations, enforcement of food standards, and monitoring and evaluation of micronutrient programs. He has served as an advisor for WHO, PAHO, UNICEF, CDC, IDD-ICC, the International Vitamin A Consultative Group, and the Global Forum in Micronutrients. He has worked in Latin America, East Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. He is a native Spanish speaker.