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Michelle Mehta
Consultant , Self-employed
Delhi, Delhi
Michelle Mehta is a public health and nutrition specialist with over ten years of global experience. Michelle offers wide-ranging nutrition technical expertise. She has independently managed nutrition projects, requiring considerable leadership, capacity building, strategic planning, and representation skills leading to effective project completion. Michelle is based in Delhi, India.
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Area of Expertise:
  • Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition
Professional Experience:
2008 – Present: Nutrition and Public Health Consultant, Africa and Asia: Key global organizations including: I-TECH, CDC, UNICEF-Sierra Leone, UNICEF-India, and FHI360

In six years of consulting, Michelle has provided technical support for nutrition programs, including in innovation and design thinking approaches, behavior change communications, strategic planning and program acceleration, in-depth literature reviews, better practices documentation, nutrition landscape analyses, and developed Namibia’s first-ever Masters-level nutrition degree curriculum

Consulting Highlights
• Consultant, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India
2014
Developing an innovations toolkit using the human-centered approach for designing, planning, documenting, and evaluating innovations for the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme

• Infant and Young Child Feeding Consultant, UNICEF, Delhi, India
2012
Conducted an in-depth global review of evidence-based IYCF programs, including quantitative and qualitative analysis of state-wide progress; developed a strategic framework for accelerating UNICEF-supported IYCF programs in India

• Infant and Young Child Feeding Consultant, UNICEF, Freetown, Sierra Leone
2008-2010
Spearheaded design, implementation, documentation, and scale-up of large-scale BCC initiative to improve IYCF practices, micronutrient initiatives, and CMAM; provided technical support to National Nutrition Program for development of IYCF policy including Code on Marketing of BMS, and CMAM guidelines

2005-2007: Nutrition Technical Advisor, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), Windhoek, Namibia

Provided nutrition technical support to Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services for development of first-ever nutrition and HIV guidelines and training curriculum; Trained trainers and supervised roll-out of national nutrition and HIV training program; Forged coalitions with government and non-government partners to place nutrition at forefront of national agenda
Education:
Masters in Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA 2003-2004
Coursework and practical experience in program management, implementation and evaluation, proposal writing, and health communications

Dietetic Registration Internship, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond Va., USA
1999-2000
Completed a year-long intensive program to build practical skills in clinical and community-based nutrition therapy, nutrition research, counseling, and health communications to be eligible to sit for dietetic registration examination

Bachelor in Science: Dietetics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Vermont, Vermont, USA
1993-1997
Coursework in nutritional sciences, curriculum development, advanced nutritional biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, and business administration; coordinated weekly Food Salvage Program to feed the under-served local community
Available for:
  • Consulting assignments
  • Job opportunities

    Years of Experience:
    10-15 years
    Highest Qualification:
    Masters
    Languages:
    English
    Nationality:
    Others
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