Keynote Speaker

Brooke Bauer is a Senior Humanitarian Advisor at Save the Children International, and provides support on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) as well as gender and GBV about nutrition in humanitarian emergencies. She supports all aspects of MIYCN and gender in nutrition including policy, practices and GBV Risk Mitigation in nutrition programming in emergencies, and is specifically passionate about providing comprehensive guidance and support for non-breastfed infants and technical guidance for the reduction of Breastmilk Substitute (BMS) use in humanitarian crises.

She has her Masters of Public Health from the Nuffield Center for International Health and Development at the University of Leeds in the UK and worked for many years as a Remote Emergency Medical Technician and coordinated programmes focused on Emergency Health Programming, including emergency obstetrics and reproductive and sexual health in humanitarian crisis before she transitioned into Emergency Nutrition. She has provided support in many countries, such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Iraq, Syria and Jordan. A large portion of her professional experience has taken place in the Middle East. She was also involved in the development of advanced context-specific virtual capacity building, learning tools and digital materials to support the implementation of Infant Young Child Feeding, integrated management of acute malnutrition and micronutrient programs in Myanmar during the COVID-19 pandemic.