Ellen Girerd-Barclay
Over the past thirty years, Dr. Girerd-Barclay, has lived and worked in Malaysia, Swaziland, the United States, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand, India, Indonesia, France, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nepal, Viet Nam, Sweden and the UK.
Her public health and nutrition experiences range from volunteer work as Teacher and Facilitator of participatory village development to Public Health Nutritionist, Administrator and Adviser, Evaluator of development projects and emergency relief operations with Care, UNESCO, Plan International, UNICEF, USAID, WFP and UNHCR.
Dr. Girerd-Barclay has served as Technical Specialist and/or evaluated nutrition and health aspects of humanitarian relief and recovery operations over the past five years in Angola, Burundi, Burkina Faso, India, the Indian Ocean tsunami-affected countries (Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Coordinator of the Interagency Health Evaluations Initiative, she worked with 15 UN agencies, donors and NGOs in 2005 to develop guidelines for interagency evaluations of the health sector in humanitarian crises.
Public Health and Nutrition Policy Advisor to Action Against Hunger in London (ACF-UK), Dr. Girerd-Barclay is currently developing advocacy tools to address the challenge of scaling up treatment for over 55 million children suffering from acute malnutrition worldwide.
She is also the Director of a human rights-based NGO, Mandamus, aimed at fulfilling the right of children everywhere to know about their human rights, based in Sweden.
Her public health and nutrition experiences range from volunteer work as Teacher and Facilitator of participatory village development to Public Health Nutritionist, Administrator and Adviser, Evaluator of development projects and emergency relief operations with Care, UNESCO, Plan International, UNICEF, USAID, WFP and UNHCR.
Dr. Girerd-Barclay has served as Technical Specialist and/or evaluated nutrition and health aspects of humanitarian relief and recovery operations over the past five years in Angola, Burundi, Burkina Faso, India, the Indian Ocean tsunami-affected countries (Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Coordinator of the Interagency Health Evaluations Initiative, she worked with 15 UN agencies, donors and NGOs in 2005 to develop guidelines for interagency evaluations of the health sector in humanitarian crises.
Public Health and Nutrition Policy Advisor to Action Against Hunger in London (ACF-UK), Dr. Girerd-Barclay is currently developing advocacy tools to address the challenge of scaling up treatment for over 55 million children suffering from acute malnutrition worldwide.
She is also the Director of a human rights-based NGO, Mandamus, aimed at fulfilling the right of children everywhere to know about their human rights, based in Sweden.
