Partner Focus Area: HIV and AIDS

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.

Luis Martinez

Communications Specialist with over 19 years of experience in SBCC/IEC/IPC, training, and HR development. His current post as SBCC Senior Technical Advisor for the USAID funded Transform/PHARE project is based in Abidjan, where he provides technical assistance to local staff implementing short-term innovative SBCC approaches to increase demand for Family Planning in Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire; he’s also liaison with partner organizations of Trasnform/PHARE from IDEO.org and Camber Collective. He has a M.A. from the University of New Haven, which he obtained while holding a Fulbright Scholarship. He is fully bilingual English-Spanish, and speaks French and Portuguese.