Giorgia Lattanzi joins as a hera partner
We are very happy to announce that Giorgia Lattanzi has joined hera as partner following our latest General Assembly of April 2024.
Giorgia’s affiliation with hera started in 2015, when she joined the Health Advisory Service (now HISP) to the European Commission as a Public health expert. She held this position for about five years, and in 2019 was welcomed to hera as an Associate Partner.
Since then, our collaboration with Giorgia has broadened to include a diverse portfolio ranging from programme and project evaluations, to strategy and policy development, appraisal of partnerships and global heath processes and priorities, and knowledge translation and communication. Prominent areas of work have included sexual and reproductive health and rights, maternal new-born and child health, and health systems strengthening.
At present, Giorgia is participating in a UNICEF project for the development of a costed Community-Based Health Services Policy and Strategy for Lesotho. Working to provide support to the Ministry of Health, she could return to Lesotho and visit again remote health facilities and communities in the Mountain Kingdom, where her public health career had started back in 2009. As part of this strategic process, Giorgia could also interact with representatives of other line Ministries, development partners, as well as civil society and faith-based organisations involved in the provision of health and social services throughout the country.
She has recently led the review of Phase 3 of NIPI , the Norway-India Partnership Initiative, which concluded at the end of 2023. NIPI focuses on promoting the adoption of evidence-based interventions in maternal, new-born, and child health in five states in India, while at the same time promoting innovation. The end-term review identified strengths, opportunities for improvement, and possible future prospects for the programme, which has just entered its Phase 4. To inform this process, Giorgia visited health facilities at various levels of the health system in three Indian states, interacting with health professionals and patients, as well as with representatives of national institutions back in New Delhi. The report can be found here.
Back in 2022, Giorgia was part of a team supporting the Global Fund to conceptualise a Country-Steered Review process, a first-of-its-kind system intended to collect feedback from key stakeholders involved directly and indirectly in the implementation of Global Fund grants across the globe. During the course of the project, Giorgia interviewed key actors based in four countries, and managed a 10-country survey while co-leading the consulting team. The results of this work are now serving as the backbone for a further stage of process development.
Between 2022 and 2023, Giorgia was involved in two projects for the WHO Department of Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA), developing its five-year strategy on the one hand, and on the other, evaluating the multi-country Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, New-born and Child Health.