Private-sector specialists with nutrition expertise

Dee Bennett has 25 years of experience in product marketing (commercial and social), marketing communications, and public policy. She has extensive experience in forming public-private partnerships to address a variety of public health issues, including nutrition, family planning, and infectious diseases. At AED, she has been Communication and Social Marketing Technical Advisor for A2Z and the MOST Project with a strong emphasis on public-private partnerships. She has lived and worked internationally. She has worked in the private sector in communication and public affairs and was on the staff of two members of the U.S. Senate.  

Camille Saadé is Director of the Point-of-Use Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment Project at AED. Mr. Saadé 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 treatment of childhood diseases. Earlier, Mr. Saadé 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 Objectives: A Practical Guide (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. Saadé 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 also 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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