Surya and Cecil Howard Scholarship Fundwhich she set up in memory of her immigrant parents. Howard is of Indian descent and the founder and steward of the Drs. She subsequently received her Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Hawaii with a dual specialization in Health Systems and Global Health, and her doctoral degree in Environmental Science from GMU when she realized that healthy people cannot exist without a healthy planet. Professor Howard received her Bachelor's Degree in English literature from Wesleyan University and with that humanities foundation came an understanding that peoples' stories, their histories, their wants and needs are at the core of social, health, and environmental change. The flagship game designed for girls in India is available on the Google Play Store. Professor Howard is currently managing externally funded game-design and development projects in India and Nepal in collaboration with Mason faculty and students to effect behavior change in global health. Working in over 25 countries as a consultant with USAID, the Gates Foundation, UN agencies, the German Development Bank, NGOs, country governments, and others, Professor Howard has led teams to design products and implemented social impact programs and projects that embody a systems-approach to problem-solving including leveraging the link between mobile access, direct-to-consumer innovations and adolescent reproductive health highlighting the connection between environmental change and infectious diseases through game-based learning creating markets and income generation for fuel-efficient stoves, safe-birthing kits and and family planning products ensuring integration of nutrition and agriculture in infant and young child feeding practices and the engagement of men to reduce stunting incorporating market-based approaches to family planning and reproductive health including social franchising and micro-enterprises and capitalizing on consumer insights to mobilize health access and product uptake. Professor Howard’s solutions-approach to teaching has been influenced by her real-world work experience.
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