Glocolearning is a social enterprise established in 2022 that uses science-based support tools in facilitating co-creation and co-learning processes for transformative food systems change. In partnership with the collaborative initiative of the IFSS portal, Glocolearning has been facilitating action-oriented processes with a wide range of food system actors – including innovators and start-ups, farmers and land stewards, researchers, NGOs, policy makers, businesses, students, youth platforms and donors.

Coordination, partnership development, and research support for the IFSS portal initiative with partners at GAIN, the EAT Foundation, the CGIAR Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT, Cornell University, Wageningen University & Research, the SUN Business Network, CoSAI, the Social Gastronomy Movement, the World Wildlife Fund, and the youth-led initiatives Act4Food/Act4Change and the World Food Forum. (https://ifssportal.nutritionconnect.org/)

Supported projects with the WLE team around sustainable diets research, in collaboration with partners at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the EAT Foundation and research teams across the CGIAR

- Wide range of applied research, program design and coordination, and impact evaluation in Global Health and International Agricultural Development initiatives in the Americas and Africa- Global Public Health content areas: Health informatics (ICT4Health/eHealth/mHealth) tools for improved health impact; Infectious Diseases; Maternal & Reproductive Health; Immunization & Childhood Infectious Disease Prevention; Monitoring & Evaluation; Community Health Worker Support; Scientific & Research Capacity Building; Health System Strengthening- Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Community Development content areas: Sustainable Diets & Food Systems; Rural Community Health; Zoonotic Disease Detection, Control & Prevention; Capacity Building for Agricultural Extension Networks and Train-The-Trainer (TTT) programs

Developing scientific capacity to address public health problems in the developing world; Practical, flexible, and sustainable eHealth and mHealth platforms (and strategies); Impact assessment; Network StrengtheningProject Portfolio:· 2013 - ongoing: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation & Instituto Carlos Slim para la Salud, MoH Nicaragua - "Dengue FIRST - An ICT Tool Kit for Improved Dengue Surveillance, Laboratory Management, and Clinical Decision Support"· 2010 - 2012: USAID/4th Sector Health/Catholic Relief Services, Nicaragua/MoH Nicaragua - "Identifying and Evaluating ICT Tools With High Impact Potential for Improving Maternal and Child Health in Nicaragua and the LAC Region”· 2010 - 2012: CONASA / Coop. Luxembourg - “Development of a National Blood Services Information System, MoH Nicaragua”· 2010 - 2012: Norwegian Research Council mVAC Consortium - "mVAC: Mobile Innovations in Recording Child Vaccination and Health Data in Immunization Registers”· 2011: UNICEF/MoH Nicaragua - “Development and Evaluation of an HIV results reporting module for the National Diagnostic Reference Laboratory, MoH Nicaragua”· 2011: PanAmerican Health Organization / MoH Nicaragua - “Tuberculosis results reporting module for the National Diagnostic Reference Laboratory, MoH Nicaragua”· 2010: IDRC/OpenMRS/OpenROSA - "2010 Informática Médica Código Abierto (IMeCA) Community regional meeting and workshops - Granada, Nicaragua”· 2010: PanAmerican Health Organization/PATH - “Project OPTIMIZE: Technical Advisory Support for MoH Guatemala for Nominal Vaccine Registry Design and Implementation”· 2010: IDRC – “Latin American eHealth Landscape Analysis: eHealth situational analysis”· 2009: CEGA/UC Berkeley/INSP Mexico - “Center for Evaluation for Global Action Train-the-Trainer Workshop: Impact Evaluation in Public Health (Nicaragua)”· 2009: IDRC/CDC/OpenMRS /OpenROSA - "2009 Informática Médica Código Abierto (IMeCA) Community regional meeting and workshops - Lima, Perú”

· Lead evaluation expert for African regional eHealth initiative, “OASIS II,” under the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada· Coordination, Facilitation and Methodological Design of a Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE) study adressing interoperability and capacity building in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa

Capacity building materials development for international agricultural development - extensionist training programs (and train-the-trainer targets), livestock/rural health issues, zoonotic disease outreach and prevention in Afghanistan, East Africa, and Latin America

School of Veterinary Medicine (2005 - 2007)· Fecal Pathogen Pollution & Ecosystem Health · Dr. Patricia Conrad’s Lab, Dep. of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine (http://pathogenpollution.org)International Programs Office, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (2004 - 2005)· Global Horticultural Assessment Needs Assessment (Honduras)· Instructor & Logistical Coordinator for 2 years for the International Field Course IAD 262 in Panama, “Tropical Ecology and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Panama”