Partner Focus Area: Malaria

Daniel Otunge

Daniel, a Kenyan, is a development communication expert with over 15 years’ experience. He holds a Master of Arts (MA) Degree Communication, MA in Philosophy, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mass Communications, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Nairobi. He has attended several skills-building courses in communication and journalism in Africa, Asia, Europe and USA. Prior to joining AATF, Daniel was the head of Communication and Advocacy at the African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA) where he helped establish and manage communication and advocacy Unit responsible for among other things biotechnology outreach programme targeting seed companies and national seed trade associations in Africa, among other key AFSTA stakeholders. Before joining AFSTA, Daniel worked for about six years as Communication Officer with the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter) where, among other duties, he coordinated activities of Biotechnology Information Centres (BICS) in Africa. Daniel has also taught mass communication, public relations and development communication at St Paul’s University, Limuru, as an adjunct lecturer. He has also offered development communication consultancies to various institutions, including UNDP and The World Bank for which he developed a five year Strategic Communication Program and Action Plans for the Kenya ASALs Community Driven Development Projects. Daniel is a media and journalism professiona

Cori Fordham

Cori Fordham is a Malaria and Family Planning Program Specialist for HC3. She is a public health professional with experience in program development, implementation, evaluation, and research. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and its HC3 project, Cori served as a Global Health Corps Fellow in Burundi. She also completed a Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. While at UNC, she worked as a graduate research assistant on a project to improve maternal referrals in rural Ghana, conducted a statewide assessment of injury and violence prevention activities in North Carolina, and provided technical support to a mobile health promotion project in India.

Corazon Flores

I’m currently working as Assistant Regional Director from the Department of Health – National Capital Region.

Clare Hanbury

In 1983, Clare Hanbury qualified as a teacher and began her career teaching 6-14 year old children in schools in Kenya and Hong Kong. For many years, Clare worked for The Child-to-Child Trust based at the University of London’s Institute of Education where she worked to help embed ideas of children’s participation in health and nutrition into government and non-government child health and education programmes in numerous countries. Clare continued to work to promote these ideas as a freelance adviser and trainer. She has worked in East, West and Southern Africa, Pakistan, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Yemen. In 2008, Clare founded a website www.lifeskillshandbooks.com to promote lifeskills work with children and young people and to promote a lifeskills approach to health education. In 2013, Clare founded Children for Health www.childrenforhealth.org a British Registered Charity that provides accurate engaging health information and inspiring programmes to use fun methods to mobilise children as health activists in their families and communities. Since the inception of Children for Health, Clare has worked alongside government and international non-government partners with programmes in Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sierra Leone. Clare has an MA in Education in developing countries and an MSc in International Maternal and Child Health and these from the University of London’s Institute of Education and Institute of Child Health respectively.