Sian FitzGerald

Executive Director

Sian joined HealthBridge in 1996 as Nutrition Advisor. In 1997, she became Executive Director of HealthBridge, and became responsible for overseeing all programs at HealthBridge, including nutrition, malaria, reproductive health, tobacco control, and liveable cities. Her role includes conducting capacity building, program design, implementation and monitoring.

Sian's university training was in international nutrition. She has worked in international nutrition since 1992, when she joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN's program to eliminate vitamin A deficiency. Based in Rome, she was responsible for programs in francophone Africa, specifically Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, and in Vietnam, where she lived from 1993 to 1995.

Following her return to Canada in late 1995, she worked as a consultant for CIDA and the Micronutrient Initiative, IDRC, before joining HealthBridge (then PATH Canada) in 1996.

Education

University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Master of Science in Human Nutrition with focus on International Development, 1988 - 1990. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship.

McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Chemistry (faculty scholar; first class honours), 1983 - 1986.

Publications

Berti PR, Krasevec J, FitzGerald S. A review of the effectiveness of agriculture interventions in improving nutrition outcomes. Public Health Nutrition 7:599-609. 2004.

M Young, Berti, PR, FitzGerald, S. Insecticide Treated Nets and Vitamin A Supplementation: An integrated approach to control malaria and micronutrient deficiency. Literature Review Paper and Malawi Case Study. Report to the Micronutrient Initative, April 2000.

LL Diosady, JO Alberti, S FitzGerald, MG Mannar. Field tests for iodate in salt. Food and Nutrition bulletin, vol. 20, no. 2, pp208-214 & pp215-220, 1999.

PR Berti, FitzGerald, S. Advancement of Vitamin A Fortified Ultra Rice. Prepared for PATH (Seattle). January 1999.

PR Berti, FitzGerald, S, Budiman, C. Report on Field Test of Fortification Rapid Assessment Tool and Guidelines. Prepared for the Micronutrient Initiative, 1999.

S FitzGerald. Fortification Rapid Assessment Tool and Guidelines. Practical guidelines designed to help programmers develop an effective and safe fortification intervention, and to identify appropriate food vehicles for fortification. Prepared for the Micronutrient Initiative. Draft, December 1997.

S FitzGerald, Diosady, LL. Technical feasibility of triple fortification as a means of preventing or correcting micronutrient malnutrition. Report to the Micronutrient Initiative, December 1997.

Monitoring Vitamin A Interventions. Contributor to Draft Guidelines. Micronutrient Initiative, July 1997.

Vitamin A Deficiency: Key resources in its prevention and elimination. Contributor. The Micronutrient Initiative, January 1996.

Qualitative Research Methods; An annotated bibliography. Contributor. IDRC, 1995.