Key Takeaways On the Sustainability Framework from Eric Sarriot (CEDARS at ICF International)

Eric Sarriot of CEDARS at ICF International provides key takeaways from his presentation during Breakfast Seminar #65, "Emergence of Sustainability in a Complex System: Are Lessons From the Health Sector Applicable to Food Security?" In this video, he discusses sustainability strategies for health systems that can be applied to food security and value chain interventions.

Bio: Eric Sarriot

Eric Sarriot graduated from the Paris VI Necker School of Medicine in 1989. After some experience in clinical practice, surveillance of infectious diseases, and communications projects, he was trained in Tropical Medicine then obtained a Masters in Public Health and Social Urban Development. That involved participatory qualitative research and work for World Vision in Mauritania. This is when he began to wrestle with the sustainability question. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins while working with the USAID funded Child Survival Technical Support project and the CORE Group and conducted research which led to the development of the Sustainability Framework. He rejoined ICF International while living in Palestine/Israel. Sarriot currently leads different projects within ICF International Health and Development Division, and continues to wrestle with the tensions between the complexity inherent to sustainable social progress and the linear modalities of development implementation.