Partner Focus Area: -Early Marriage

Maeva Peek

I am a public health professional currently working in Papua New Guinea for the WHO as a Technical Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health, sponsored by the Netherlands government as part of their Junior Professional Officer programme. I have lived and worked in a number of countries (mostly in Latin America/Caribbean, Asia Pacific). I earned by MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, and I did my undergraduate studies at McGill University in Canada. I hate the cold, I love all things strange, and I am passionate about C4D and SBCC

Madan Raj Bhatt

Madan Raj Bhatt has more than 10 years of experience in Family planning (FP), Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MCH). He has involved in designing, implementing and monitoring of MCH and FP and HIV services from both Governments and NGO run Expanded Integrated Health Service (EIHS) sites in coordination with government line agencies and local NGO partners through USAID-funded and other projects. Some of his key expertise area are FP/Integration, MCH, Reproductive Health and Nutrition. He has been Conducting technical update sessions on FP, writing technical papers, sharing the latest update on FP and documenting the FP related activities. Currently, he has been working in USAID-funded Suaahara II Good Nutrition Project to provide technical assistance on FP and also involved in monitoring US abortion and FP requirements.

Lynn Van Lith

I am a Senior Technical Advisor—HIV/AIDS with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs under the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative project. Prior to this position, I served as the Senior Technical Advisor-Behavior Change Communication on the RESPOND family planning project with JHU/CCP. Before that, I served as the HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor on the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and co-chaired HCP’s Capacity Resource Group helping country teams strategically integrate community and institutional strengthening plans into their field programs. I have also worked for International Planned Parenthood Affiliates in Africa as well as the UNDP. I have worked in the field of international health and development with a focus on HIV and Reproductive Health more broadly, during which time I lived in Zambia and South Africa, and provided short-term technical support to many countries across Africa and Asia. I have a master’s degree from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.