Private-sector specialists with nutrition expertise

Dee Bennett is a senior communication and marketing specialist at AED, serving as the private-sector advisor on AED's A2Z: Micronutrient Leadership Project. She served in the same position for five years on The MOST Project. She has extensive experience in forming public-private partnerships to address a variety of public health issues including nutrition, family planning, and infectious diseases. She currently is the senior technical advisor for communication on the USAID-funded AICOMM Project, a global communication and behavior change activity to prevent and respond to the H5N1 virus (Avian Influenza). She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America. She has worked in the private sector in communication and public affairs and was on the staff of two members of the US Senate.  

David McGuire, Vice President and Director of AED's Center for Private Sector Health Initiatives, is an internationally recognized leader in the field of public/private partnerships.  Mr. McGuire has over 15 years experience designing, brokering, and managing partnerships that improve health and the bottom line.  Mr. McGuire's experience in partnership has included work on nutrition, malaria prevention, hygiene improvement, HIV/AIDS prevention, and family planning.   He has worked extensively in Africa and Asia with donor organizations, multi-nationals, and local companies to develop and manage marketing strategies for health-related products among low-income consumers.  He has been a resident advisor in Indonesia, Morocco, and Mali, and speaks French fluently.  Mr. McGuire holds a BA in French and Political Science from the University of Vermont, and studied International Relations at the Institut Europ'een des Hautes Etudes.

Camille Saadé is Director of the Point-of-Use Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment Project at AED.  Mr. Saad'e has led the mobilization of public and private resources in critical health areas such as the prevention of malnutrition, malaria, hygiene education, promotion of safe drinking water and sanitation, and the supply of zinc for appropriate treatments for childhood diseases. Earlier, Mr. Saad'e spent 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry in several international operations with J&J, Upjohn, and Schering-Plough.  He is the co-author of Mobilizing the Commercial Sector for Public Health Objective" (1996) and the principal author of The Story of a Successful Partnership in Central America: Handwashing for Diarrheal Disease Prevention (2001).  Editor of the former quarterly publication "Social Marketing Matters," Mr. Saad'e has taught a course on Social Marketing at Boston University since 1997.    

Christian Winger, M.A. is currently the deputy director of a five-year, USAID-funded project to prevent child mortality in Africa and Asia using point-of-use water disinfection and zinc treatment for diarrhea.  Mr. Winger led an AED project to identify private sector provision of fortified complementary foods (FCFs) and related products in developing countries.  He has worked for a social marketing organization in the Balkans and Latin America implementing reproductive and maternal/child health projects, including improving the nutritional status of children.  

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