Charlotte Lane

Charlotte Lane
Designation: Nutrition Consultant, 3ie
Charlotte Lane is a nutrition and food security expert who has managed several of 3ie’s cross-sectoral evaluation and synthesis projects to support food systems transformation and the adoption of healthy diets.

Prior to her time with 3ie, Charlotte conducted research on HIV-exposed and -uninfected infants in sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked on community health and food security initiatives in Burkina Faso.

Blogs by author

All eyes on immunization: what do we know about effective vaccination campaigns?

Charlotte Lane, Avantika Bagai 29 April 2021 blog  
With COVID still raging across the world, the topic of immunization is receiving more attention than it has in decades. Today, the world is waiting to see if immunizations will help turn the corner and end the biggest health and humanitarian crisis in a generation. Given this, policymakers and implementers need to know what works to increase immunization rates, for whom, and at what cost.

This new evidence gap map shows what we know – and what we don't know – about food systems interventions

Ingunn Storhaug, Charlotte Lane 11 January 2021 blog  
Right now, 690 million people are undernourished and at least 650 million people are obese. Given these staggering statistics, it is imperative that we use the best available evidence to improve nutrition and food security across the globe.

World Toilet Day: building latrines is not always enough to get people to use them

Charlotte Lane 18 November 2020 blog  
Today, on World Toilet Day, the UN counts 4.2 billion people as being without access to safely managed sanitation. Many of them were in India until the national sanitation drive, the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), made massive strides in reducing the number.

Access is not the same as use: tackling behavioural barriers to the use of new resources

Charlotte Lane 22 March 2020 blog  
On World Water Day, 3ie’s Charlotte Lane provides an overview of the Indian government’s ongoing efforts to provide access to clean water and adequate sanitation and makes a stroeg case for an equal effort to address the behavioral barriers to the use of these new resources.