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Holly Blanchard is currently the Senior Reproductive Health Family Planning Advisor for Jhpiego in the Maternal Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP). Previously she was a senior technical advisor in the Department of Global Outreach @ ACNM with the ACCESS-FP project. Her international work includes postpartum family planning work in Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Liberia, Ghana, Afghanistan, and Haiti. She has lived and worked in Mauritania and Indonesia. Holly worked in the USA both in New York and Washington DC in obstetrics and family planning. She graduated from Yale University with a Masters of Science in Nursing and qualified as a certified nurse-midwife in 1981.

Elizabeth Sasser is the Senior Program Coordinator with Jhpiego for the Family Planning team at the Maternal, Child Health Integrated Project (MCHIP). Previously she was the Senior Program Coordinator the ACCESS-FP program. Prior to joining Jhpiego, Elizabeth was a Health Analyst Intern at iJET. She received her Masters degree in International Development from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.