This event is co-hosted with the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy. View this event in the Data for Nutrition community of practice and access additional materials here.
Description:
Now more than ever before, there is a need for high quality and real-time data to address challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. New data sources, methods, and technology could hold promise for addressing these data challenges. During this webinar speakers DataDENT and the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy will discuss their recent reviews of the landscape of nutrition data innovations. Speakers from Fraym, Terre des hommes, and Sanku Dosifier will showcase real-world examples of innovations to start a conversation in the nutrition data community about about emerging solutions and the potential of nutrition data innovations for addressing gaps across the data value chain. Confirmed speakers include Melissa Persuad (Fraym) and Riccardo Lampariello (Terre des hommes). Q&A moderated by Muchiri Nyaggah (Results for Development) will follow the presentations.
Speakers:
Melissa Persuad
Director, Growth, Fraym
@fraym_io
Melissa Persaud is the Director of Growth at Fraym and leads the Global Development Porfolio. In this role, she works with partners to leverage geospatial data to design, layer, monitor, and evaluate programs globally. In addition, Melissa has years of experience in mobile messaging and data collection across sectors and a general passion for technology in development. Melissa holds a Master’s in Public Administration–Development Practice from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College. Melissa is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Cameroon) and is fluent in French.
Riccardo Lampariello
Division Head, Health, Terre des hommes
@RLampa75, @tdh_ch
Riccardo Lampariello holds an MSc in Applied Statistics and an MBA. He has over 20 years of experience in Health: from Pharma – where he worked for 10 years in various positions in Clinical Development and Business Development – to International Organizations and International NGOs. In May 2017, Riccardo joined Terre des hommes (the Swiss leading child protection agency improving millions of children’s lives worldwide) where he is Head of the Health division. With a focus on innovation, he drives the development and deployment of innovative projects (both disruptive and incremental), including IeDA, one of the largest digital health solutions in Sub Saharan Africa.
Felix Brooks-Church
Co-Founder and CEO, Project Healthy Children
@sanku_PHC, @felixbchurch
Felix Brooks-Church co-founded and leads Sanku, a fast-growing social enterprise working to combat hidden hunger and save lives by giving small mills the tools they need to fortify maize flour, an East African staple. Felix has spent more than a decade developing and refining solutions for small-scale fortification and led all aspects of product development and engineering for Sanku’s award-winning fortification technology and sustainable business model. His work has gained international recognition, leading to his selection as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, a Rolex Awards for Enterprise Laureate and to Sanku winning the Zayed Sustainability Prize in 2019. Through its network of close to 700 small fortifying mills Sanku provides 3 million East Africans sustainable access to the basic human right of nutritious food and aims to reach 100 million people this decade.
Thalia Sparling
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
@SparlingThalia, @LSHTM, @ANH_Academy
Dr. Thalia Sparling is a Research Fellow with the IMMANA programme in the Nutrition Group of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She primarily works on evidence synthesis of tools, metrics and methods used to study agriculture to nutrition pathways as well as linkages between mental health and food and nutrition security. She also conducts implementation research within the Food and Agricultural Approaches to Reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) project, a clustered randomized field trial investigating a homestead food production program in rural Bangladesh. She holds a PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Yashodhara Rana
Associate Director, Results for Development
@yashodhararana, @results4dev
Dr. Yashodhara Rana leads the data practice in the nutrition team at R4D. Yashodhara’s work spans a range of topics in nutrition that includes a review of nutrition evidence for the African Development Bank’s multi-sectoral nutrition strategy; adaptive evaluation of the LAUNCH Food accelerator program and more recently she was the Learning Advisor at USAID Advancing Nutrition. She holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Pardee RAND Graduate School and a BA (Honors) in government from Dartmouth College.
Moderator:
Muchiri Nyaggah
Executive Director, Local Development
Research Institute
@Muchiri
Muchiri Nyaggah has more than 20 years experience working on software development and technology innovation for those living on irregular income in Africa, online strategy for African organizations and public policy implementation for development data. He is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Local Development Research Institute, an action-oriented think tank supporting African countries in taking practical evidence informed actions to end hunger poverty and inequality. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Results for Development Institute where he supports the health and nutrition practices.
