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	Sandra Callier, Project Director
	Sandra Callier joined EHP as the project director in February 2002. Ms. Callier graduated from St. Louis University with a major in political science and earned her master’s degree in international studies from Johns Hopkins University, concentrating in economic development and Latin American studies. She has over 25 years of experience in international development and consultant assignments in over 20 countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa, working with government agencies and nongovernmental organizations. She has managed projects and supervised professional staff and consultants that have encompassed a wide array of disciplines, including public health, rural development and agriculture, and development management. Most recently, Ms. Callier served as the project director for the USAID-funded Monitoring, Evaluation, and Design/Assessment Support (MEDS) Project. Before joining the MEDS Project, she had worked as a development management specialist for the Office of International Cooperation and Development of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as a USAID project officer and regional health/nutrition adviser in Guatemala, as a program and training officer for the U.S. Peace Corps Office of Training and Program Support, and as a democracy officer in the USAID Center for Democracy and Governance. Click here to send an e-mail to Sandra Callier.
Craig R. Hafner, Project Manager
Mr. Hafner has 35 years of experience in international development with a specialty in program- and field-level management of technical assistance teams. He was on the staff of the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project beginning in 1981 and continuing through the end of WASH and the first EHP contract. For most of those years, he served as Deputy Director. Prior to joining the WASH Project he had long-term assignments in Tanzania, Kenya, and Sierra Leone and later participated in 15 short-term assignments in various countries in Africa, Central and Southern Asia, and Eastern Europe. He has managed more than 150 technical assistance teams in 30 developing countries for WASH and EHP. Key management assignments under EHP included an emergency environmental assessment in Gaza/West Bank; procurement of equipment for wastewater improvement projects in Bulgaria and Romania following a major environmental pollution study on the Danube River Basin; and an urban environmental health program in Zambia. Before joining WASH, he was on the staff of the Peace Corps, working both in rural water supply field programs and in evaluation, training, and policy development at Peace Corps headquarters. Mr. Hafner holds a master’s degree in geography from the University of Colorado. Click here to send an e-mail to Craig Hafner.
	Eckhard F. Kleinau, Senior Technical Director/CESH Coordinator
	Dr. Kleinau has more than 20 years of experience in medicine and public health, with an extensive background in operations research, health policy and program design, and monitoring and evaluation. His career includes work with USAID’s Measure Evaluation project, the BASICS child survival project, and the USAID maternal and child care program in Egypt. He has several years of field experience in Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Togo, and Zaire; has conducted special health studies in Thailand and the Philippines; and has participated on technical assistance teams in Madagascar and Zambia, among many other assignments. Dr. Kleinau is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed papers. In addition to degrees in medicine from the Eberhard-Karls University in Tuebingen, Germany, he holds master's degrees in epidemiology and health policy and management and a doctoral degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Click here to send an e-mail to Eckhard Kleinau.
Eugene P. Brantly, ECHO Coordinator
From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Brantly served as a risk assessment/management specialist for the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project and its successor EHP. As EHP evolved, he worked more on disease surveillance, which he is focussing on at present. He has participated in or managed technical assistance in Bangladesh, Belize, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Major assignments included management of a complex investigation of children’s exposure to lead in Cairo, Egypt, and development of GIS mapping techniques for use in surveillance in Malawi and Mozambique. He has been a contributor to books on environmental change and health effects for the World Resources Institute, the National Council for International Health, and other groups. Before joining WASH, Mr. Brantly carried out numerous assignments for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has a master's degree in biology from the University of Rochester and a law degree from the George Washington University. Click here to send an e-mail to Eugene Brantly.
	May Post, Information Center Coordinator
	In July 2000, Dr. May Post joined the Environmental Health Project as Coordinator of the Information Center. Dr. Post is a Burmese-born U.S.-licensed public health physician. She has more than 25 years’ experience in medicine and public health. She began her career as a physician in 1973 and went into international public health in 1980. She has worked in Liberia, Zaire, Congo, Gambia, Rwanda, Burma, Philippines, and, most recently, Nepal where she was a consultant to the EHP office in Kathmandu. Dr. Post has worked for a variety of international organizations—USAID, the World Bank, UNICEF, PAHO, and DFID— as well as for a range of USAID cooperating agencies. She has also served in national ministries of health—in Liberia, Gambia, and Burma. She has written a wide range of papers and reports covering primary health care, maternal and reproductive health, emerging/re-emerging diseases, HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) related to women’s health, as well as cross-cutting HIV/AIDS/STI issues such as integrated service delivery and partner notification. She received her medical degree and diploma in preventive and tropical medicine in Burma, and her U.S. medical license from the State of Florida Board of Medicine. Click here to send an e-mail to May Post.
	Fred Rosensweig, EHP Activity Manager, Senior Specialist/Institutional and Human Resources Development
Mr. Rosensweig joined the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project in 1981, its first year, and remained through two additional WASH procurements and the first Environmental Health Project in 1993. He currently divides his time between his home firm, Training Resources Group, where he is Vice President, and the current EHP. He specializes in the design and implementation of training programs and systems, institutional strengthening, and policy reform. He has managed scores of field programs, has worked as a facilitator of national and regional meetings, has overseen the development of numerous training guidelines and materials for conducting institutional assessments and for carrying out institutional strengthening activities, and has designed and managed numerous technical assistance activities. In recent years, he has worked on the decentralization of water supply and sanitation services in five countries. Major assignments have been in Slovakia, Haiti, Tunisia, Zaire, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Estonia, El Salvador, Jordan, and Poland. Early in his career, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and Cameroon, Peace Corps Associate Director in Tunisia, and Training Officer for the Africa Region in Peace Corps/Washington. He holds a master's degree in English as a Second Language from the University of California at Los Angeles. Click here to send an e-mail to Fred Rosensweig.
Siddharth Agarwal, Country Representative and Urban Health Director EHP/India
Siddharth Agarwal has more than 16 years experience in medicine, project management, and technical assistance. Before joining EHP as the India Country Representative and Urban Health Director, he worked with CARE India providing technical and programmatic support to projects for community-based child and newborn care. Mr. Agarwal was part of USAID’s review team that examined options for “Enhancing Child Survival Impact” of the current program. Prior to this, he managed CARE’s Maternal and Infant Survival Project in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Agarwal has experience working with the government of Uttar Pradesh’s Department of Health and Welfare as well as with the LLRM Medical College, Meerut. Mr. Agarwal is the author of numerous public health papers and has given presentations and talks on a variety of topics. He holds a degree in medicine from the LLRM Medical College in Meerut Siddharth Agarwal.