Reminder: MCW Monthly Speaker Series May 31: Evaluating Urban Health
When: Tuesday, May 31, 12-1pm
Where: USAID Information Center, Mezzanine level, Ronald Reagan Building, 1400 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC (An online webinar will also be available at https://ac.usaid.gov/mcw_urbanhealth/)
RSVP: Nancy Leahy, USAID at nleahy@usaid.gov by May 27
Daniel Ortega Nieto will discuss an impact evaluation of Saúde Criança, a Brazilian NGO that helps slum dwellers deal with health shocks.
More information: Acute health shocks and chronic health conditions are likely to have severe and long-lasting effects on overall family welfare and constitute a major channel of the inter-generational transmission of poverty. Poor families affected by health shocks require assistance beyond the scope of successful social welfare transfer programs such as Bolsa Familia or Oportunidades. In this respect, Saúde Criança, a Brazilian NGO has successfully implemented a holistic methodology that provides direct support to families to address health shocks as well as indirect support to families to prevent relapse. Its methodology is being replicated by 23 organizations around Brazil and has been included in the world’s best 100 social practices. In addition, the governments of Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro have recently started implementing programs based on Saúde Criança’s methodology.
The presentation will focus on Saúde Criança’s methodology and an ongoing impact evaluation that will measure the long term effects of the NGO. It will also discuss the program run by the Municipality of Belo Horizonte.
About the speaker: Daniel Ortega Nieto is a Fulbright doctoral student at Georgetown's Department of Government. Before coming to Georgetown, he earned an M.Sc. in development management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he studied as a Chevening scholar, and a B.A from El Colegio de Mexico. Daniel was an advisor to the Mexican Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and has also consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Instituto Federal Electoral, and the Trade Agreement Administration and Technical Cooperation Division at the United States’ Department of Labor. He has conducted research at Harvard University, the Institut d´Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and the Hague Academy of International Law. He is currently undertaking, with Professors Habyarimana and Tobin from Georgetown University, an impact evaluation of Saúde Criança, a Brazilian NGO that helps slum dwellers deal with health shocks through an holistic methodology.