Colleen Emary

Colleen Emary is a public health nutritionist, with more than 20 years of experience working on global health and nutrition issues.  She has provided leadership for design, implementation and evaluation of nutrition programmes, including short-term and remote technical support for several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, along with emergency deployments to Bangladesh, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has led nutrition policy and technical guidance development, including nutrition competency assessment, and capacity-building initiatives. She currently works as a senior technical advisor, health and nutrition, for World Vision International, providing leadership to programming related to child wasting and nutritional oedema. She is an active contributor to the global emergency nutrition community, as a member of the Global Nutrition Cluster Strategic Advisory Group, and of the GNC Technical Alliance Leadership team. Her areas of interest include infant and young child feeding, management of wasting and nutritional oedema, and multi-sectoral approaches to improving child health and nutrition outcomes. She is a trained peer-support breastfeeding counsellor. Colleen studied Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph, and Public Health Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Colleen is based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.