Casie Tesfai

Casie Tesfai has two decades of experience leading and delivering programs and research to improve health and nutrition outcomes in humanitarian contexts. She is a global expert on wasting treatment and prevention and led groundbreaking work to develop the first set of low-literacy tools to enable community health workers to provide effective wasting treatment in hard-to-reach areas, an approach that is now endorsed by the World Health Organization. She is the Senior Technical Advisor for Nutrition at the International Rescue Committee, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Program on Forced Migration, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She has an MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an MSc in International Studies and a BA in Psychology. Before joining IRC, she worked for UNICEF, GOAL, HKI and was a Peace Corps Volunteer.