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
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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.
