Nandita Thatte leads the IBP Initiative housed at WHO in Geneva Switzerland. Her current portfolio includes institutionalizing the role of IBP and its network of NGO and CSO partners to support the dissemination and use of evidence based interventions and guidelines, and to strengthen the linkages between IBP field based partners and WHO researchers to inform implementation research agendas. Prior to joining WHO, Nandita was a Technical Advisor in the Office of Population and Reproductive Health at USAID where she designed, managed, and evaluated programs in West Africa, Haiti and Mozambique. Nandita has a MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a DrPH in Prevention and Community Health from the George Washington University School of Public Health.