Sarah Fry is a public health specialist who has worked in community water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs for over 25 years. She is currently Senior Hygiene Programming Specialist for the USAID-funded Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) with responsibility for management of one of HIP's at-scale programs in Madagascar and for WASH integration within education programs. Prior to joining AED, Ms. Fry worked with HIP's precursor, USAID's Environmental Health Project (EHP). She managed EHP's urban health portfolio with activities in India and Egypt. While living in Madagascar, she developed an urban slum child health and sanitation program for CARE. As a consultant to USAID, Peace Corps, the World Bank, CDC, and others, she designed, facilitated, managed, and evaluated numerous WASH programs and workshops, mostly in francophone Africa, where she lived and worked for 10 years. Ms. Fry has expertise in prevention of diarrheal disease in children through community approaches to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene promotion, including WASH in school programs. She participates in the global coordinating committee for Global Handwashing Day of the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW), which established the annual event in 2008. Ms. Fry also has expertise in the development of field guides and training materials and has authored or coauthored numerous documents for the WASH and EHP projects as well as for HIP. Ms. Fry was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin from 1976-78. She has a BA in anthropology from Vassar College, a MPH from UNC/Chapel Hill with a specialty in maternal/child health, and speaks fluent French and German.
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