Tanya

Tanya Khara is a Public Health Nutritionist (MSc LSHTM 1996) whose experience is rooted in nutrition programming at country level in emergency and development contexts in Africa and Asia. She has worked for a number of NGOs, Valid International, UNICEF and with the UK government, concentrating on the design, management and review of programmes and supportive policy.  She is driven by a desire to better shape and translate research into doable, effective and equitable programmes. As an integral member of the research team responsible for developing Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and subsequently driving the uptake of the approach within UNICEF, she was able to do exactly that. She has broadened her focus since then, developing a number of technical reviews, exploring neglected areas in international nutrition, including maternal and adolescent nutrition, and the relationship between wasting and stunting, always highlighting key evidence-based opportunities for improvements in programming and policy. After a number of years working for them as a consultant on technical projects, Tanya was delighted to join the ENN as a technical director in September 2017. In particular she leads ENN’s work on the relationship between Wasting and Stunting and the implications of this for better policy and practice, and supports ENNs learning and GTWG oversight role in the GNC Technical Alliance.