Steve Hansch

About Steve Hansch

Humanitarian health professional with 40 years of progressive experience delivering aid in remote and austere settings, analyzing lessons via evaluations, overseeing NGO strategy and growth, program design, teaching and setting standards. Work in over 80 countries and nvolved in numerous communities of practice to craft evolving best practice particularly in health, nutrition, logistics and livelihoods in complex emergencies. Recently led study for USAID about attacks on health care in conflicts. Taught 120 advanced graduate technical courses in humanitarian aid as well as dozens of professional training courses for NGOs, including over a dozen focused on SPHERE standards. Actively engaged in NGO networks and over 60 years of service on NGO boards of directors.

Experience

1. Board Member

   Relief International

   Jun 1998 — Present

   Active in RI\'s growth from $6M/year nonprofit when I joined to $170M/year NGO. Helped RI\'s field work in Somalia, Darfur, Sri Lanka, Albania, Kosovo, South Sudan, Uganda and other program areas. Active in design of strategic plans every few years. Traveling in Darfur with IDPs, meeting with the ICRC, UN cluster groups and partner organizations, came up with innovative proposal to mitigate attacks and mortality in Darfur villages, submitted to various donors on behalf of Relief International.

Education

• International Committee of the Red Cross

  Certificate, Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP)

• San Diego State University

  toward MPH, Public Health

• Pacific Palisades High School

  high school, Editor, Tideline newspaper

  1973 — 1975

• ASTD Education

  Certificate Program, Human Performance Improvement

• Tufts University

  ABD, School of Nutrition

  1984 — 2014

• Boston University

  Masters Public Health - School of Public Health, Epdemiology, Biostatistics, Tropical Medicine

  1981 — 1982

• Stanford University

  Bachelor of arts, Human Biology; and Economics

  1975 — 1980

Skills

• International Development
• Nonprofits
• Policy Analysis
• Program Evaluation
• Microfinance
• Nutrition
• Epidemiology
• Disease Control
• Editing
• Health in Emergencies
• International Relations
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Statistical Techniques in Surveys, Evaluation/Analysis
• Qualitative Research
• Public Health
• Nutrition, Cmam, Ruf
• Land Tenure
• Resilience
• Disease Control in Disasters
• Food Aid, Logistics, Market Interventions
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Public Speaking
• Proposal Writing
• Strategic Planning
• Teaching
• Global Health
• Water in Emergencies
• Water
• Community Outreach
• Disease Surveillance
• Humanitarian Intervention
• Field Evaluations
• Survey Research
• Field Operations
• Program Development
• Fundraising
• Human Rights
• Humanitarian Principles and Standards
• Strategic Planning for Int'l Aid Organizations
• Statistics