Marcia Griffiths
President
Marcia Griffiths, MSc, is known for her field work, technical expertise, and innovative programming in applied nutrition and social marketing. Her career includes over 35 years of program management and technical assistance work in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Ms. Griffiths has served as a senior advisor in communications, social marketing, and behavior change for numerous USAID, World Bank, and developing country government projects. She began her career with The Manoff Group 30 years ago as director of technical assistance for the Government of Indonesia's ground-breaking Nutrition Communication and Behavior Change Project. She later served as director of the Weaning Project, where she developed an integrated package of child health interventions called community-based growth promotion (CBGP) that has been adopted by over a dozen countries. Her experience incorporating behavioral issues in program design grew into Behavior-Centered ProgrammingSM, a standardized approach to the design process. She also pioneered Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs), an action research methodology for "test marketing" health practices for feasibility. Ms. Griffiths has published extensively, including the World Bank's Promoting the Growth of Children: What Works, WHO's IMCI Nutrition Guide and Designing by Dialogue: Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding. She speaks fluent Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Michael Favin
Vice President
Michael Favin, MA, MPH, has over 30 years of experience in international public health in more than 25 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Since joining The Manoff Group in 1987 to manage the Social Marketing for Vitamin A Project, he has served as a senior technical advisor or a consultant to numerous health and nutrition projects, including REACH, MotherCare, BASICS, Wellstart's Expanded Promotion of Breastfeeding, OMNI, CHANGE, IMMUNIZATIONbasics, and Injection Safety. For these projects and others, Mr. Favin facilitated behavior change and communication strategy design, planning, implementation, and evaluation. He has worked in many critical public health areas—including child health and nutrition, school health and nutrition, maternal and neonatal health, and environmental health—and has supported innovative tool development in areas such as routine immunization, growth promotion, care-seeking, and community surveillance. Mr. Favin has written or contributed to more than 60 books, manuals, and articles on such topics as qualitative research, Behavior-Centered ProgrammingSM, communications, and operational aspects of public health programming for health and nutrition. Mr. Favin speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Katherine Coleman
Communication Advisor
Katherine Coleman, MA, has a range of communication and program expertise developed through her work at the World Bank, NGOs, and USAID. Her communication experience includes executing social analyses for World Bank water and education projects in Haiti, managing outreach and development for a resettlement office of the International Rescue Committee, and pursuing partnership development for the United Nations Foundation; as well as writing, editing, and presenting on a variety of topics. Program experience involves participating in planning and managing World Bank urban, water and sanitation, and education programs and USAID population and health programs. Ms. Coleman serves on the Board of Trustees of Hands Together, an NGO working in Haiti. She speaks French, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.
Joy Del Rosso
Senior Nutrition Advisor
Joy Miller Del Rosso, MS, has 25 years of experience in nutrition program design, monitoring, and evaluation. Most known for her work in school-age nutrition—including school feeding, deworming, and micronutrients—Ms. Del Rosso is also an expert in community-based growth promotion (CBGP), young child feeding, behavior-centered approaches to infant and child nutrition, food security, and nutrition in early childhood, as well as program planning, monitoring, and evaluation. Her early work in the Dominican Republic resulted in one of the first “best practice” CBGP projects. During her 10 years as a Nutrition Specialist at the World Bank, she wrote Investing in Nutrition and Class Action, the seminal publication on school health and nutrition. In 1999 Ms. Del Rosso joined Save the Children as School Health and Nutrition Advisor, establishing the organization as a leader in the field. She subsequently was named Associate Vice President and later, National Director for US Programs. Ms. Del Rosso collaborated with The Manoff Group for many years before becoming a staff member in 2007. She speaks Spanish and French.
Christina Fontecchio
Behavior Change Communication Specialist
Christina Fontecchio, MHS, has nearly 10 years of experience in marketing and communications in the US and the developing world. She started her career designing communications and branding strategies for corporations such as Kodak, ADP, and Hawaiian Airlines. She then shifted her skills to the health sector, working with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation as a crisis counselor and outreach coordinator. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she developed and implemented HIV/AIDS prevention programs with high-risk youth, serving first in Haiti and then the Dominican Republic. She remained in the Dominican Republic to work for Population Services International as a Program Manager, overseeing a delayed sexual debut communications campaign and designing and implementing an HIV/AIDS prevention program in Haitian immigrant communities. Her work included social marketing of condoms, the comprehensive development of a communications strategy, community-level nutrition and maternal health, and social marketing of water and sanitation products and nutritional supplements. Most recently, she worked on research and coordination for the Adolescent Health Unit of the World Health Organization in Geneva.
Laurie Krieger
Senior Advisor, Health and Social Science
Laurie Krieger, PhD, is a leading public health anthropologist with over 20 years of experience working in 20 countries in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Dr. Krieger has extensive experience in behavior change communication (BCC), social marketing, community development, social change, applied research, monitoring and evaluation, policy development, and gender. Her expertise is in reproductive health, maternal and child health (MCH), and infectious diseases. Dr. Krieger currently coordinates The Manoff Group’s contribution to the AIDSTAR project and manages the Technical Assistance Support Contract (TASC 3) with USAID. She also provides technical assistance to a private sector family planning project in the Philippines and an MCH project in Indonesia. Prior work for The Manoff Group included using cutting-edge market research for a family planning project in Albania and pioneering a participatory health communication model for the Environmental Health Project II. Dr. Krieger’s previous positions include Child Survival Fellow with the USAID Women In Development Office and research associate on the Egyptian Population and Family Planning Board. She is able to work in Arabic, French, and Russian.
Marco Polo Torres Vasco
Senior Advisor, Social Marketing
Marco Polo Torres Vasco, MA, is an exceptional communications specialist with over 20 years of experience in social marketing and behavior change communication (BCC) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Torres has developed and implemented social marketing and BCC media and materials for environmental health, hygiene, maternal and child health, and nutrition, including the promotion of micronutrients, growth promotion, and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. He has particular expertise in the design and development of radio and television spots, videos, and interpersonal counseling job aides. Since joining The Manoff Group in 1996, Mr. Torres has provided technical assistance to a variety of health, nutrition, and hygiene projects. Mr. Torres is currently providing assistance to a network of NGOs in Bolivia to develop a hygiene promotion initiative. Prior to joining The Manoff Group in 1996, Mr. Torres ran the Ecuadorian National Institute for Children and the Family's Department of Social Marketing and Communication and introduced social marketing to Ecuador. Mr. Torres is a native Spanish speaker and is fluent in English.
Elizabeth Younger
Senior Advisor, Behavior Change Communication
Elizabeth Booziotis Younger, BA, has worked in international health
for over 20 years in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the
Middle East. Her specialties include behavior change communication,
social marketing, marketing of health services, commercial
sector partnerships, and advocacy in reproductive health,
family planning, HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health. Her
expertise includes qualitative research and communication
and organizing, packaging, and disseminating information
(print, video, radio) for varied audiences. Ms. Younger
joined The Manoff Group as the HIV/AIDS Technical Advisor
for the CHANGE Project, where she led the development
of CHANGE's HIV/AIDS project in El Salvador. The project
focused on behavior change activities (peer networks, condom
distribution, and improved counseling at health centers)
among national police and their families. Prior to joining
The Manoff Group, she managed reproductive health, family
planning, and HIV/AIDS projects and developed BCC materials
and training curricula. She has authored and contributed
to numerous publications, including guides to materials
development and research techniques. Ms. Younger is bilingual
in Spanish and English.
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