Sara Nam, PhD MSc Registered Midwife (Dip HE), is a public health professional with over 20 years’ experience providing technical assistance to health programmes and conducting programme evaluations. She has a broad range of UK and international experience; her professional experience includes: humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, Congo-DRC, Kenya, Southern Sudan and Liberia; strategic HIV planning and coordination at policy level in Cambodia; conducting programme evaluations to assess the aid effectiveness of large multi-lateral, multi-sector programmes of assistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan and of safe motherhood, gender-based voiolence and HIV projects  in Afghanistan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Moldova and Kosovo. Sara has also conducted or been involved in needs assessments both overseas in south Sudan and Kenya (infectious diseases assessments) and the UK (for HIV and Female Genital Cutting).