Lora Shimp serves as the Technical Director for John Snow, Inc's (JSI) Immunization Center, based in the Washington, DC area and supporting global initiatives and countries around the world. Since the early 1990s, Ms Shimp has provided expertise in international development and maternal and child health (with a particular focus on immunization), through projects and interventions funded by USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, and Peace Corps. She has worked at JSI for over 23 years, as a senior immunization technical expert and specialist in communication and behavior change, providing technical support in close collaboration with MOH/EPIs, UN organizations, and other partners. Her expertise includes immunization service delivery and equity, district and facility support through 'reaching every district/community' and other approaches, data quality and use, financing and planning, communications, community partnerships, new vaccine introduction and disease specific interventions - in African countries (Madagascar, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon and others), India, Nepal, the Central Asian Republics and Ukraine.