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Andrew Chetley is a strategic thinker, a prolific communicator, and an international advocate for public health. He is the former Executive
Director of Healthlink Worldwide and former Director of Exchange – a networking and learning programme to identify good practice in health
communication. He spent several years working as a writer and editor at the Bernard van Leer Foundation which focuses on early childhood development.
While at War on Want, he campaigned on health and development issues and was instrumental in founding and guiding international networks including the
International Baby Food Action Network and Health Action International.
Trained as a journalist in Canada, he has worked in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the author of nine major public health publications and
countless reports on health, education, and development.
In 1986, the editor of one of his publications on infant feeding described him in the preface as: “an ordinary person whose commitment to the issue
gradually turned him into an expert campaigner”. A few years later, Andrew wrote of people in impoverished communities in Colombia: “The people within
the communities, when given the opportunity to do so, were the architects of their own development … this, surely, is the key to sustaining development.”
Today, he continues to act as a catalyst for change, to stimulate community empowerment and the sharing of knowledge to improve the lives of children
and the families and communities where they live. »
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