Partner Focus Area: Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health

Mamadou Diaw

Mamadou is a Senegalese citizen currently serving as the APCD/Health for PC/Senegal. Mamadou has been with PC for 23 years, firstly as APCD/NRM and EE; and starting in 2008, as APCD/Health. Before joining PC, Mamadou worked for 10 years in the field of NRM for USAID and FAO projects. His work included community forestry, agroforestry, community based natural resource management, cartography, land use planning, ecology and land tenure. Mamadou was also an agroforestry trainer for the Senegalese Forest Service.

Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in Forestry Sciences from the University of Florence, Italy, followed by a post university degree in cartography and NRM. Mamadou was also trained in land and tree tenure at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Following his reassignment as APCD/Health, Mamadou undertook short courses in Senegal, France and Israel in nutrition, reproductive health, community health, maternal and child health, and water and health. In 2014, Mamadou earned a Master’s degree in environmental health from the University of Versailles, Paris. Mamadou is currently a PhD candidate from Paris Saclay Human and Social Sciences Doctoral School and has been carrying out a multi-disciplinary research on the factors influencing collective actions in community health.

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.