IYCF-E Capacity Assessment Tool - to be completed throughout the training for discussion on Day 5:
Alice is a Senior Emergency Advisor – Nutrition, with a focus on MAMI (Management of small and nutritionally At-risk Infants <6 months and their Mothers) in the Emergency Health and Nutrition Team at Save the Children US. Alice has been working in humanitarian nutrition programming since 2015 in all aspects of emergency nutrition but with a focus on IYCF-E across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe.
Brooke Bauer is the Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition in Emergencies Advisor and Gender and Nutrition Advisor for the Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance. She provides technical support on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) as well as gender and GBV about nutrition in humanitarian emergencies. She has supported nutrition in emergency programming globally for the last 12 years and has specific expertise in the care of the non-breastfed child including targeting and use, procurement, management and distribution of breast milk substitutes (BMS) in emergencies. She is passionate about equity in health and nutrition, LGBTQ+ justice, and community-led, sustainable, and innovative humanitarian response.
Brooke has been supporting the Ukraine nutrition response since Feb 2022
Line Vogt is a senior health and nutrition advisor for Save the Children Norway. Line provides technical support on health and nutrition programming in both humanitarian and development setting, with a special focus on IYFE-E. Line is a public health nutritionist by training and has background in capacity building as a former university lecturer. Line has been working in humanitarian nutrition programming since 2016, and supported Save the Children’s regional Ukraine nutrition response as the regional nutrition advisor in May 2022.
Linda has recently joined the Early Childhood Nutrition team at UNICEF headquarters as Nutrition Specialist, leading the complementary feeding agenda. Prior to her position with UNICEF, she served as a consultant with the Emergency Nutrition Network as the facilitator of the Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group and led on the production of different pieces including guidance and material related to early childhood nutrition. Previously, she worked with several agencies and academic institutions and in different contexts; engaged in community nutrition program planning, development, monitoring and evaluation as well as policy, strategy development, and research. Linda has more than 18 years’ experience in public health and community nutrition within the Middle East and beyond. She has earned her PhD from the University of Dundee in Scotland with a focus on public health nutrition policy and infant and young child feeding in emergencies. She also has a Master’s degree in Nutrition and a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the American University of Beirut.
Fatmata Fatima Sesay is a Nutrition Specialist, Infant Feeding with UNICEF HQ in New York. She has over 15 years of experience in Infant, Young Child, and Micronutrient Nutrition in both development and humanitarian settings. Fatmata holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BSc and an MSc in Nutrition and Dietetics from Njala University, Sierra Leone.
Asad has been leading capacity strengtheing work of the Asia Regional office for past two years. He is having over 15 years experience of developing and delivering capacity building programs for national and international not-for-profit organisations in Asia and Africa.
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