Event Information

Please join the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change & Security Program, in partnership with USAID’s Biodiveristy Results and Integrated Development Gains Enhanced (BRIDGE) project, for the first panel in a three-part virtual series and hear from researchers and practitioners on lessons learned and entry points for action in the integration of biodiversity conservation, governance, public health, and food security.

Moderated by Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with an introduction by Jeff Haeni, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment, USAID. For the past five years, BRIDGE has supported the second goal of USAID's Biodiversity Policy, to "integrate biodiversity as an essential comonent of human development."

Panel Speakers 

• Barbara Best, Former Senior Coastal Resource Management and Policy Specialist, USAID 
• Amy Ickowitz, Team Leader, Sustainable Landscapes & Livelihoods, Center for International Forestry Research 
• Taylor Ricketts, Professor & Director, Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont

BRIDGE collaborates with USAID missions and regional and technical bureaus to identify and promote integrated programming approaches and contribute to the evidence base for integration. Join us for other events in the "Building Bridges" series:   

• Governance, Natural Resource Management, and “Thinking and Working Politically”
  Tuesday, May 12, 2020 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 
• Cross-Sectoral Collaboration for Stronger Conservation and Development Outcomes
  Tuesday, May 19, 2020 | 9:30 am - 11:00 am