Shaina Craige

As a Program Cycle Mechanism Specialist, Shaina Craige provides support to USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Management Team to improve knowledge management and organizational learning systems. Shaina helps FEWS NET to support Washington and Mission-based teams to improve monitoring and analysis plans and applies decision-support tools that facilitate the use of evidence in activities related to livestock management, pastoralist livelihoods, and One Health concerns. Shaina’s portfolio includes routine support to multiple Missions in the East Africa region and she also supports Missions in other regions in the event of emergence of an important transboundary animal disease, such as African Swine Fever in Hispaniola.

Shaina is a veterinarian by training with a background in Public Health and Agriculture. She practiced small-animal medicine in Houston, TX prior to joining USAID as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellow in 2020.

Shaina has spent her career working toward the betterment of the planet for worldwide communities and for animals alike. She is a strong believer in the One Health initiative and in the importance of empowering the health of people, animals, and the planet together to provide sustained stability for all. Her extensive catalog of work in livestock programming, process improvement, veterinary research, and diversity, equity, and inclusion culminate in her vision of protecting and healing underserved communities worldwide through public policy and humanitarian assistance.