Marco MENESES

Management, program design, planning, Request For Propossals interpretation, grant writing, budgeting, training of Community health workers, nutrition, Gender, sexual and reproductive projects, HIV-AIDS. Experienced with multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual culture. 

Experience in strengthening maternal and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices, the cornerstone in improving nutrition and primary health care in developing countries.   My approach applies what has been learned over the last 25 years in maternal and child survival projects and adapts innovations from other disciplines including business, behavior change and communications to improve maternal and child health and nutrition.   Focus on community-based approaches that improve the nutritional status and optimal feeding practices in the context of child health, nutrition and food security interventions.  All of these in a Freirian praxis approach to community empowerment, community mobilization, organization and participatory education

Strong interest and experience during the last ten years in physical activity, behavioral nutrition and obesity in the United States of America. Able to formulate and implement policy and environment change strategies for promoting and sustaining healthy lifestyles.

Experience acquired in Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Sudan, Egypt, Somalia, and USA.

 

My past experience from 1980 to 1994) was in strengthening Infant and Young Children Practices, the cornerstone in improving nutrition and primary health care in developing countries.

I used innovations from other disciplines including behavior change and communications to improve maternal and child health and nutrition.

I applied a Freirian praxis approach to community empowerment, community mobilization, organization and participatory education.

My experience was acquired in Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Sudan, Egypt and Somalia.

 

UNIVERSITY OF ST. FRANCIS, Joliet, Illinois
Master of Science - Training and Development, December 2003

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Department of Family Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
Nutrition and Health Promotion in Primary Care, July 1994

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, College of Engineering, Madison, Wisconsin 
Diploma, Management of Refugees, Displace Persons and other Disasters, 1993

UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA, Medellin, Colombia
Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics, December 1978
Master of Science in Public Health, December 1980

I suffered a terrorist attack in Somalia (Baidoa) on February 2nd, 1994, which almost killed me.

Certified Family Life Educator, National Council on Family Relations, Minn., MN.

Certified Sexual Educator, American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, Ashland, VA.

Certified Health Educator Specialist, National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Whitehall, PA.