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Dr. Massee Bateman joined Save the Children as Director of the Saving Newborn Lives program in 2008. Previously, he served as the Chief of the Maternal and Child Health and Urban Health in the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in New Delhi for seven years.  He held a number of positions in clinical medicine, maternal and child health and nutrition, urban health and environmental health over the previous 23 years, including fellowship and faculty appointments with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Senior Epidemiologist at ICDDR,B in Bangladesh, Associate Director of the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) project, Director of the Environmental Health Project, and Child Survival Advisor in USAID/Washington. During the 1990’s Dr. Bateman worked with public and private sector partners to develop and implement a regional public-private partnership to promote hand washing with soap in Central America, providing an initial model for the global initiative to improve health through hand washing. He has had long term postings in Peru, Guatemala, Bangladesh, and India, as well as on the Navajo reservation in the US.    Bateman holds degrees from the University of California, San Francisco, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Caltech, and the University of Georgia.