Bella Monse

Bella is a dentist by training, specialized in school health promotion, health and WASH in Schools (WinS) policy and research. She worked for 7 years as integrated expert for the Department of Education in the Philippines. Her role was to facilitate the development, implementation and research of effective school-based health programs with focus on scalability. Since 2011 she works on the GIZ Fit for School Program to support Ministries of Education in South East Asia to develop, implement and scale up effective school health and WASH in Schools (WinS) programs. During the last years she has been much involved in the global advocacy to harmonize strategies targeting the SDGs for Wash in Schools.

Since 2016 Bella works with part of her time at the GIZ Sector program Sustainable Sanitation and leads the working group on ‘Program Guidance’ at the Global WinS Network. Bella holds a PHD degree in Global Oral Health from Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.