Helga Fogstad Biography

Helga Fogstad currently heads the Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH) which is the world’s largest alliance for women’s children’s and adolescents’ health combining over 1000 partner organization from 10 diverse constituencies across 192 countries. Helga has 30 years’ experience in health systems strengthening public health and reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent-related issues. Her experience covers health planning and development at facility district and national levels as well as at international level within multilateral and bilateral agencies.  She has also chaired and been actively involved in many global processes to forge consensus and increase global mobilization for RMNCAH including the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.
Previously Helga was Director of Global Health Education and Research at the Norwegian Agency for Development (Norad) where she was central in providing technical guidance on Norway’s health education research and development portfolio both through the bilateral programs as well as global initiatives and funds supported by Norway.
She is a health economist and has co-authored several publications related to public health.

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