Janine’s distinguished career has focused on integrated health and development programming at the community level, emphasizing social mobilization, female empowerment and gender equity, and local capacity strengthening, all in support of sustainable impact at scale. Beginning in 2000, she worked with Project Concern
International (PCI), a Global Communities Partner, serving as Associate Vice-President (2000-02), Vice-President (2002-09). and Senior Vice-President (2009-2022). She led PCI’s efforts, in partnership with the Gates Foundation, to develop a successful model of health and nutrition behaviour change utilizing women’s self-help groups in Bihar, India. She has led PCI’s long-term collaboration with the CORE Group Polio Project in India. Janine has been a mentor to hundreds of colleagues and a great proponent of collaboration to advance learning. Janine has served on the CORE Group Board of Directors for 16 years, a record without equal. She has also served on numerous Working Groups at CORE, including co-chairing the HIV/AIDS Working Group for several years.