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Diane Baik is a Public Health Nutritionist with more than 15 years of experience. Diane travelled to more than 60 countries, working in mostly Africa and Asia. Her experience includes nutrition program design, grant writing, project management, monitoring and evaluation, and operational research for stable and semi-fragile contexts. She is an expert in child nutrition, food-based approaches, behaviour change communication, anthropometry, formative research methods, health systems strengthening, information systems, policy advocacy, and multi-sectoral programming. She is an expert in the Positive Deviance Hearth approach and led a Taskforce for improving Nutrition integration with Food Security and Livelihoods with World Vision International. In the past, Diane rolled-out standardized monitoring systems across countries, including digital health solutions and is actively involved in various expert consultation groups and steering committees for complementary feeding of young children and infants. Diane completed her Masters thesis research in Uganda looking at the effectiveness of contextualized messaging to improve nutrition outcomes in children 6-36 months of age and was the Co-PI for a research project focusing on the effectiveness of Positive Deviance/Hearth and incorporating Interactive Voice Calling using mobile phones to improve nutrition outcomes in children 6-23 months of age in peri-urban Cambodia.