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Anayda Portela

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Anayda Portela

Anayda Portela is a Technical Officer in the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health at the World Health Organization (WHO/MCA) in Geneva. She joined WHO in 2000. She has worked with governmental and non-governmental organizations for over 20 years in designing and leading implementation of health promotion and community programmes for Reproductive-Maternal-Newborn-Child Health at the global, regional and national level. She has worked in countries in Africa, South-East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, but her main experience has been in Latin America. Particular areas of focus include access to care for underserved populations and woman and community participation in the design of health programmes and services. In order to achieve this she has specialized in bringing together different stakeholders to identify problems and find solutions, including representatives of governments, health services, NGOs, local leaders, community groups, academia and international partners. In addition she has worked with different pedagogical experts and agencies to examine health education efforts for populations with lower education levels and training of community health workers. She is currently leading WHO’s evidence reviews and synthesis on health promotion interventions for maternal and newborn health, H4+ efforts to strengthen community level interventions and training resources for community health workers for maternal and child health, and manages several WHO/MCA implementation research projects.

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