Who We Are: SSDS and Its Staff

Nancy Fronczak, B.S.N., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Dr. Nancy Fronczak is a Senior Health Systems Specialist with over 30 years experience developing, monitoring, and evaluating health services, of which over 25 years has been in international public health. She has provided long and short-term in-residence technical assistance for 20 years, primarily in Africa and Asia, and has worked and consulted for over a dozen major non-governmental and international agencies, as well as national Ministries of Health. Her consulting activities have focused on strengthening government and non-governmental health services, including monitoring and evaluation of quality.

Dr. Fronczak provided long-term technical support for public-private contracting of district level health services in Cambodia, and continues to provide periodic technical support for improving public-private partnerships. She has also provided leadership in developing methodologies to measure quality of health services, most recently as the coordinator for the Service Provision Assessment (SPA), a national level facility-based survey that provides information on maternal, child, and reproductive health services, including indicators for HIV/AIDS desired by donors funding scale-up programs. Dr. Fronczak continues to work to strengthen the methodology and promote utilization of facility-based information as a means for measuring and supporting the quality of health services. During the 1980s and '90s she provided long and short-term technical assistance for emergency nutritional and health responses for UNHCR and NGOs for several major African and Asian emergencies. She has strong research and analytic skills, has a working knowledge of French, and speaks some Bangla and Arabic. Dr. Fronczak first worked with SSDS in 2000, and has recently rejoined the organization.

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