Esther Indriani
SENIOR Technical Advisor, Health and Nutrition
With 26 years of experience, Esther is an expert in community-based health and nutrition programming, with extensive expertise in programme design, monitoring, and evaluation. She champions the integration of health and nutrition with early childhood development and food security/agriculture, promoting holistic approaches to child and community well-being.
A skilled mentor and trainer, Esther has supported World Vision field staff and Master of Public Health (MPH) students across the Asia Pacific Region. She has delivered more than 50 trainings and workshops in over 10 countries on Community Health Workers, Timed and Targeted Counselling, Positive Deviance/Hearth, Go Baby Go, quality improvement, and health system strengthening.
Esther has facilitated the design and development of multiple national Technical Programmes, led multi-country evaluations of health and nutrition grants, and successfully led pilot testing of numerous World Vision project models and innovations. She led the Asia Pacific Mother-Baby Friendly Office initiative across ten World Vision field offices to promote breastfeeding and facilitated regional multi-country lessons-learned workshops. As the Grow GMP project model champion and eLearning facilitator, she continues to strengthen programme quality and capacity across the region.
Her leadership extends to research, evaluation, and innovation. She has provided nutrition technical support for World Vision’s South Asia and Pacific Regional Office; conducted the Final Evaluation of the Takeda Healthy Village health projects in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal; and led a realist evaluation of World Vision India’s Timed and Targeted Counselling approach. Esther has also undertaken research on social and behaviour change in child feeding in Indonesia, and piloted both the Go Baby Go model and the Spiritual Nurture for Children module (through the GMP platform) in Indonesia.
In addition to her development work, Esther brings humanitarian field experience, having been deployed to the Nepal and Yogyakarta Earthquake Responses in 2015 and 2006, respectively. She also coordinated the Asia Pacific Regional Mobile Health and Innovations programme, and authored World Vision’s Health and Nutrition Assessment, Design, and Planning Toolkit (ADAPT), as well as Grow GMP publications.
Esther holds a Master of Public Health (with Honours) from Maastricht University and a Postgraduate Degree (with Distinction) in Food and Nutrition Security from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Since 2017, she has served as a visiting lecturer in the Master of Public Health programme at the National University of Singapore, where she delivers lectures on infant, child, and maternal nutrition outcomes; community-based programmes for maternal child health; and the integration of early childhood development into health and nutrition initiatives. She also contributes to Johns Hopkins Humanitarian in Emergencies course, lecturing on food security and nutrition interventions in emergencies.
In 2024, Esther was invited to serve as a guest lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, focusing on global nutrition challenges. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Health and Sustainable Development at the ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University, Thailand.
Areas of Expertise
- Maternal and child health and nutrition
- Infant and young child feeding
- Integration of health and nutrition with early childhood development
- Food security, agriculture, and nutrition linkages
- Digital health technology and innovation
- Core Project Model master trainer (CHW/TTC, PDH, Go Baby Go, Grow GMP)
- Project and programme design, evaluation, and learning
- Social and Behaviour Change design and formative research using Photovoice
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