Evaluation specialists with nutrition expertise

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, particularly for health/nutrition communication and behavior change interventions, social marketing, and consumer acceptance of health products. Her three years at Wellstart International prior to joining AED give her particular expertise in field research and social marketing related to breastfeeding and child feeding. Dr. Baume has numerous publications and has worked world-wide.

Victoria Michener, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the FANTA-2 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. Prior to joining AED, 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 ten years at AED, she has supported multiple research and evaluation studies for health projects, including the LINKAGES project. Currently, as the Gender, Gender-based Violence Advisor for the Africa's Health in 2010 project, in addition to providing monitoring and evaluation support, she manages the gender-based violence (GBV) portfolio and leads the mainstreaming of gender across all technical areas, including maternal and newborn health, reproductive health, nutrition, and child survival. She speaks Hindi, Marathi, and some Spanish.

Geeta Nanda, DrPH, is a Research Manager at GHPN. Her areas of expertise include maternal and reproductive health, nutrition, quantitative research, and monitoring and evaluation. At AED, Dr. Nanda has provided research technical assistance to various projects including C-Change, 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 has a Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology from Cornell University. His areas of expertise include maternal and child nutrition and estimating the economic and functional consequences of malnutrition. He has 28 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.

Nadra Franklin, Ph.D., MPH, is Director of Impact Assessment for AED's Global Health, Population and Nutrition Group. She is also currently the Director of A2Z, a global USAID-funded micronutrient and child blindness project. 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, Nadra coordinated more than 45 surveys dealing with country programs and provided impact-level results data as well as project process and monitoring data. 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. While at Michigan, she also worked as part of a team to address the design of research to better capture HIV-related effects of race and class among U.S. minorities. For three years, she was Africare's Associate Program Manager for West Africa. She has done population research in Egypt, and speaks fair Arabic and fair French.

Alison Tumilowicz is a Senior Nutrition and HIV Specialist with FANTA-2. In this capacity, Alison assists USAID/Mozambique and the Government of the Republic of Mozambique to integrate nutrition into HIV programs. Prior to this position, Alison was a Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for FANTA. Her other technical 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 a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

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