Steve Collins

Steve is the Executive Director of both Valid International Ltd and Valid Nutrition. He is a medical doctor with a doctorate in nutrition and has worked in aid and development since 1985. In 1998, he developed the Community based Therapeutic Care model – subsequently called CMAM – that has since been adopted in over 60 countries worldwide. In 2001, he received an MBE for his services to humanitarianism for his work into adult malnutrition. He is a respected academic, is widely published in many major international journals, including Nature Medicine and The Lancet, is a visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Child Health in London and holds an honorary doctorate from Long Island University in the US. In 2010, Steve was elected a Senior Fellow of ASHOKA.