Partner Focus Area: Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health

SBCC Specialist: Susan served for 11 years as resident BCC Adviser for Maternal Newborn Child Health including polio and HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria and Benin (seconded by Mannion Daniels, Ltd., JHUCCP and PATH respectively) and for 20+ years with UNFPA, DFID/UKaid, USAID, IPPF and Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria. Susan has facilitated development of SBCC strategies and their implementation along with rapid survey monitoring tools and major household surveys. Susan developed Community Communication, a community mobilization intervention for normative change utilizing innovative rapid entertainment education tools that empower health workers, community volunteers and health session participants to become community communicators regardless of their literacy level or social status. She has supported local development of multimedia products (print, radio, DVD) and traveling theater. Her pragmatic, culturally sensitive approach also led to the development of Rapid IPC training for health workers. Her in-school adolescent reproductive health interventions were adapted for NGO peer education activities. Susan has trained and mentored government BCC officers and consultants, transferring leadership to local personnel. She is the principal author of numerous manuals, publications, project report chapters and conference presentations. Susan has carried out field work in most West African and Pacific countries and in South Sudan and Lesotho. She is fluent in French.