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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.
Paul Crystal
Advisor, Communications and Knowledge Management
Paul Crystal, MA, has been working for over 15 years to help international organizations and programs improve their approaches to communications and knowledge management. Early in his career, as a long-term consultant at the World Bank, he concentrated heavily on internal communications initiatives to improve staff use of new technologies. Most recently, he was the USAID/BASICS project’s Communications/Strategic Experience Transfer Manager, a position in which he applied innovative approaches to identifying and disseminating best practices to ensure easy access for counterparts in developing and developed countries alike. Paul’s expertise is built on a foundation of extensive writing credits, ranging from PR materials and speeches for government officials to curricula and technical publications. His health program experience has included child survival, nutrition, commodity logistics, family planning, and HIV and AIDS. Paul is bilingual in English and French, and works extensively in Spanish.
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.
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.
Tom Schaetzel
Senior Advisor, Nutrition and Agriculture
Tom Schaetzel, PhD, is an expert in maternal and child nutrition with 20 years of experience globally in nutrition policy and program design, research, monitoring and evaluation. He has particular expertise in micronutrient supplementation and fortification, indicator development and statistical methods for nutrition research. He has previously worked as the Technical Director of USAID’s Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project, Nutrition Advisor for the BASICS Project, and the Asia Regional Coordinator for the Micronutrient Initiative and Project Coordinator for the Micronutrient Support Project for the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project.
Kim Remsberg
Director, Finance and Operations
Kim Remsberg, BS, heads the Manoff Group’s Accounting and Human Resources departments, and provides financial and administrative oversight on most of the organization’s contracts and cooperative agreements. Developing an increasingly complex set of responsibilities since joining the Manoff Group in 2002, Kim ensures that operations run smoothly by working behind the scenes with vendors, clients, and consultants, as well as prospective, current, and former employees.
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