Dr. Roseanne Schuster is a global nutrition and public health professional. As Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for the Global Impact Collaboratory, she is dedicated to increasing the impact of research and programming through innovative, cost-effective, and culturally responsive evaluation and learning. Dr. Schuster has a decade of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs seeking to improve health and environmental and social wellbeing. She engages community-based, participatory, and implementation science approaches in interventions and evaluations to ensure programs are ultimately responsive to target populations and adaptive to the complex systems in which they operate.
As an Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Global Health, Dr. Schuster’s research focuses on how to improve delivery of critical health services in low-resource settings, uptake of health care among vulnerable populations, and understanding of how food and water insecurity shape infant and young child feeding and growth. She has led interventions, evaluations, and indicator development activities in multiple countries, with long-term expertise in Mozambique and sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been sponsored by DFID and FAO and executed in partnership with USAID-funded projects.
As the Practice Lead for both Health and Evaluation at ASU International Development, Dr. Schuster supports faculty and units across the university in interfacing with partners and clients to design innovative, use-inspired solutions to global challenges.