Kristy Manners is a Dietitian and Paramedic with a strong background in public health research and nutrition assessments, having completed her Masters in International Health and specialising in paediatrics. She was the lead consultant in the first pilot NCA in Kenya with ACF. Her focus is on Maternal Child Health (MCH) and Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) having worked with WHO in Albania, local organisations in Cambodia and many years in East Africa with ICRC, ACF, Terre des hommes and various NGO’s, managing community and inpatient maternal and under-five malnutrition centres and nutrition and health programs. During 2017, she has been working for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as the Africa Regional Nutrition and Health Delegate during the 2017 Food Security Crisis and Drought.