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Indonesia from 1994 to 1995. She was the director of the JSI/Boston International Group, for John Snow, Inc. in Boston from 1996 to 2000. From 2000 to 2010 she was the vice president and director of John Snow, Inc. (for-profit) and JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc. (non-profit) in the
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International Group with John Snow, Inc. She served as a technical advisor for the MotherCare Project for John Snow, Inc. in Indonesia from 1991 to 1994 and as an HIV/AIDS advisor with the Health and Child Survival
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Survival. During her time as deputy director, she led the roll-out of the Focus In/Train Up initiative, which provides targeted technical training to volunteers to increase their capacity-building abilities.
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College (2013), University of Puget Sound (2015), Boston University (2016), Michigan Technological University (2016), Virginia Wesleyan University (2016), and Williams College (2016). She received the
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Training Institute, Inc, a global public health organization, where she oversaw the management of programs in more than 30 countries. Hessler-Radelet was a board member of the
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