Partner Focus Area: Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health

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.