Esther Indriani

Sr. Technical Advisor, Health and Nutrition

With 23 years of experience, Esther is an expert in community-based programme designs, monitoring, and evaluation of health and nutrition. She champions integration of health and nutrition with Early Childhood Development, and Food Security/Agriculture. She is a proficient mentor for WV field staff and MPH students and an excellent trainer, having delivered 50+ training/workshops in 10+ countries in Asia Pacific region on Community Health Workers/Timed and Targeted Counselling, Positive Deviance Hearth, Go Baby Go, Quality Improvement, and Health System Strengthening. She has facilitated Technical Programme design development in multiple countries and led multi-country evaluations of health and nutrition grants. She has successfully led pilot testing of many WV project models and initiatives. Esther led the Asia Pacific Mother Baby Friendly Office initiative in ten WV field offices to support breastfeeding, and facilitated multi-country lessons learned workshops. She was deployed in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response and the 2006 Jogjakarta Earthquake Response. Esther coordinated the Asia Pacific Regional Mobile Health and Innovations programme, and authored WV’s Assessment, Design, and Planning Toolkit (ADAPT) for H&N. 

Esther has a Master of Public Health degree with Honours from Maastricht University, and Post Graduate Degree with Distinction in Food and Nutrition Security from Wageningen University, Netherlands. Since 2017, she serves as a visiting lecturer in the Master of Public Health programme at the National University of Singapore

Areas of Expertise 

• Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition 

• Infant and Young Child Feeding 

• Integration of H&N with Early Childhood Development  

• Food Security/Agriculture and Nutrition  

• Mobile Health/Digital Health Technology and Innovation 

• Core Project Model Master Trainer (CHW/TTC, PDH, Go Baby Go) 

• Project/programme design, evaluation, lessons learned