Project Leadership
John Nicholson leads efforts to effectively identify, package, and share nutrition knowledge and learning with internal and external audiences.
Project Leadership
Silvia Alayón provides leadership to measure USAID Advancing Nutrition’s multi-sectoral nutrition activities and use of data for continuous learning and improved impact.
Project Leadership
Lisa Sherburne provides technical direction for behavioral integration across the project, overseeing global and country-focused social and behavior change (SBC) strategies and activities.
Lisa has more than 20 years of experience in SBC, food security and nutrition, and social protection. Her expertise includes the application of behavioral science to behavior change strategy design and the use of social and gender transformative programming with girls and boys, women and men to increase behavior change and positive health and nutrition outcomes.
Project Leadership
Jennifer is a perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist and lactation consultant whose research and applied work documents and addresses social and structural determinants of health, particularly in relation to lactation and breastfeeding practices, maternal and child health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other infectious diseases, gender, equity, health systems and service delivery, in the U.S. and globally. For more than 20 years she has designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated public health programs.
Project Leadership
Kristen has worked in international nutrition, health, and food security for over 15 years. She has extensive experience providing technical leadership in maternal, adolescent, and child health and nutrition; community-based and multi-sectoral program design; governance; and monitoring and evaluation. Prior to joining USAID Advancing Nutrition, she held multiple technical roles in over 13 years on the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project.
Project Leadership
Nazgul comes to us from Mercy Corps in Kyrgyzstan where she worked as a Head of Programs. In this role, she oversaw a complex program portfolio operating throughout the country, with projects in clinical nutrition, SBC, and school feeding. Prior to Mercy Corps, she was the Deputy Chief of Party for the SPRING/Kyrgyzstan project.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
In an effort to support governments and other stakeholders in their delivery of high-impact nutrition practices, the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed evidence regarding the effectiveness of social and behavior change communication approaches to increase the uptake of three key nutrition behaviors: (1) women's dietary practices during pregnancy and lactation, (2) breastfeeding practices, and (3) complementary feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
One year after WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and partners launched the Nurturing Care Framework, they published this report on efforts by countries around the world to adopt it.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This resource provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions for facilitating a country-level nutrition advocacy planning process using the PROFILES nutrition advocacy tool and nutrition costing. Designed for practitioners working in and with governments and their stakeholders to conduct nutrition advocacy planning in a given country, the manual is based on a process developed, field-tested, and refined by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) project over several years through facilitating nutrition advocacy in developing countries using a collaborative approach.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This module provides a rationale for School Health and Nutrition (SHN) and introduces the Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH) international framework. It describes Save the Children’s experience in SHN programming, outlines principles to guide SHN programs, and highlights the connections SHN programs should make with other Save the Children’s programs and other organizations.