Lesley Drake, PhD

About

Lesley is the Executive Director of the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) at Imperial College London, England. Her work on translation and implementation research has highlighted the role of the school as a platform for scalable and sustainable health service delivery to school-age children and adolescents.  She has supported the design and implementation of government-led national school health and school meals programs in many countries across Africa and Asia.  She currently serves as the senior academic advisor on school feeding to the Government of Nigeria that is currently on 10 million children daily.