Cecilia Fabrizio, Drph, Mph Email & Phone Number

Standing Together for Nutrition is a multidisciplinary consortium of nutrition, climate, gender, food and health system experts working to build consensus on the key nutritional evidence needed to drive nutrition policy and funding (https://micronutrientforum.org/standing-together-for-nutrition).

Global

A $180M public health organization overseeing programs to strengthen health systems.Led development, strategic planning, and implementation of best practices for data use, ensuring that technical assistance is scientifically rigorous. Directed in-country teams across the world and managed US$1M budget. Aligned stakeholder goals. Advised on methods and techniques for conducting policy-relevant analyses. Fostered collaborative relationships with government and agency partners. Developed… Show more A $180M public health organization overseeing programs to strengthen health systems.Led development, strategic planning, and implementation of best practices for data use, ensuring that technical assistance is scientifically rigorous. Directed in-country teams across the world and managed US$1M budget. Aligned stakeholder goals. Advised on methods and techniques for conducting policy-relevant analyses. Fostered collaborative relationships with government and agency partners. Developed successful funding proposals. SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS• During COVID-19 pandemic, designed, analyzed, and interpreted SBC research to guide government policy development, disseminated through reports, dashboards and a decision support framework. Impact: Provides backstop situational analysis for policy development• Developed scope and content for a 5-year initiative to identify gaps and align use of data to strengthen public health policy and decision-making. Partnered with CDC (FETP), WHO, JHU,. Co-led initial engagement with Asia-Pacific Ministries of Health and discussions for five countries.• Strategic Planning & Program Design: Worked with Department of Health to develop a strategic plan to re-imagine their role as the analytic backstop for public health program teams. Led development of capacity building programs and strategic planning sessions. Impact: Aligned cross-functional teams to strengthen annual national performance monitoring framework for programmatic decision-making, and to measure impact. • Monitoring & Evaluation: Led a team to evaluate disease surveillance system nationally, regionally, and locally. Identified weaknesses in surveillance that resulted in slow reactions to outbreaks and inconsistencies in allocation of resources to disease burdens; recommended changes such as indicators, collection, and reporting methods. Show less

Hong Kong Sar

Technical Consultant Provided social and behavior change technical assistance, partnership, and capacity building for research, monitoring and evaluation, project planning and implementation for government agencies. Co-authored nutritional technical report, adapting best practices for program implementation (World Food Programme). Led needs assessment and market entry strategic plan development for Asian NCD NGO (KLF). Evaluated maternal nutrition public-private partnership in… Show more Technical Consultant Provided social and behavior change technical assistance, partnership, and capacity building for research, monitoring and evaluation, project planning and implementation for government agencies. Co-authored nutritional technical report, adapting best practices for program implementation (World Food Programme). Led needs assessment and market entry strategic plan development for Asian NCD NGO (KLF). Evaluated maternal nutrition public-private partnership in Indonesia.SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Led multi-agency process to develop a global research and implementation agenda for social and behavioral change in infant nutrition with GAIN, SPRING, and USAID. o Identified a gap in addressing the behavioral component of infant nutrition. o Developed Expert Advisory Committee of global thought leaders and summarized evidence. o Launched conference with global stakeholders and authored two peer-reviewed systematic review papers. o IMPACT: Aligned important global agencies and organizations to pursue advocacy and research agenda on behavior change in infant nutrition. • Developed vaccine research study targeting the underserved, involving coordination of private, government, academic and NGO partners.• Led evaluation of a maternal nutrition public-private partnership in Cambodia (AmeriCares) to ensure adherence to best practice technical standards and guidelines. Show less

As the Principal Investigator for community-based intervention studies, led successful proposals for US$2M in research funding. Established and maintained collaborative relationships with donor organizations. Research results disseminated through peer-reviewed articles and community forums.

Yale University, New Haven, Ct

Co-led partnership collaboration that successfully completed disparity-focused interventions through proposal development, protocol reviews, implementation, data analysis and publication.Served on two NCI R21 collaborative research teams.

Ct, Usa

Led global strategic communications; expanded reach to new media, donors, and partners. Led reconfiguration of department's strategic role and functions, resulting in more efficient staffing and effective communications.

Hong Kong

Led NGOs research, policy and public health work, and program planning. • Served as civil society representative for development of national Cancer Control Plan and a population-based Cervical Screening Program. • Launched community-coalition for a preventive screening campaign targeting underserved and vulnerable populations, working with government, academics, civil society, and grassroots NGOs

Ny, Usa

Led 500-bed hospital's marketing, advertising and promotion. Marketed services to community, physicians and managed care companies and other targeted constituencies.

Drph, Public Health Leadership

Mph, Health Policy, Social And Behavioral Change

Mba, Marketing & Finance

Ba, Economics, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Delta, Helenes, MortarBoard