Susan Holcombe

Title

Professor of the Practice

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Management and implementation of development policies, programs and projects.

Field experience in China, including the Tibet Autonomous Region; Bangladesh, Sudan, Fiji, Pakistan; Afghanistan; Zimbabwe and East Africa.

Profile

Professor Holcombe's teaching and publication builds on a career of practice and a focus on building capabilities for human development. She was Program Director for Oxfam America and has served in various positions with UNFPA, UNIFEM and UNICEF in New York and in field postings. She has participated in or led field evaluations and assessments for Ford Foundation, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and the University of the South Pacific. Currently Professor Holcombe teaches in the MA and MS Programs in Sustainable International Development, including Frameworks for Development; Demographics of Development; and Managing Policy and Practice Change in Health Systems. She assists the The Poverty Alleviation Fund (www.tpaf.org) with program planning and monitoring.

Degrees

New York University, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh, M.A.

Mt. Holyoke College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	shholc@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2207
Office:	Heller-Brown Building, 105

Awards and Honors

Heller School Mentoring Award (2011)

Courses Taught

HS	233a	Managing Policy and Practice Change in Health Services
HS	254f	Governance and Development
HS	259a	Topics in Sustainable Development
HS	259f	Topics in Sustainable Development
HS	271a	Framework for Development
HS	289f	The Demographics of Development
HS	321f	Implementing Policy and Practice Change in Health and Social Systems
HS	352f	Learning Across Borders: Aligning Policy and Practice with Development Goals and Values
HS	801g	Proseminar

Scholarship

Holcombe, Susan. "Structuring a Global NGO for a Rights-based Change Agenda." Change not Charity Essays on Oxfam America's first 40 years. ebook. http://issuu.com/oxfamamerica/docs/change-not-charity?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=FFFFFF&showFlipBtn=true&autoFlip=true&autoFlipTime=6000 ed. Ed. Laura Roper. Boston: Oxfam, 2011. 362-376.

Yeshi, Choeden; Wangdui, Puching; and Holcombe, Susan. "“Health and Hygiene Behavior Change: Bottom Up Meets Top Down in Tibet”." Development in Practice Vol. 9. No. 3 (2010): 396-402.

Holcombe, Susan. "Capabilities and Human Rights Approaches: Competing Paradigms or Re-enforcing Models?." Prospects, MIT Journal of Planning 8. (2009): 108-119.

Holcombe, Susan, Nawaz, Safia Ali Kamwendo, Anderson & Ba, Khady. "Managing Development: NGO Perspectives." In International Public Management Journal 7. 2 (2004): 187-206.

Holcombe,Susan & Offenheiser, Raymond C.. Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing a Rights-based Approach to Development: An Oxfam America Perspective. Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2003.

Raymond Offenheiser, Susan Holcombe and Nancy Hopkins. "Grappling with Globalization, Partnership and Learning: A Look Inside Oxfam America." Non- Profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 28. 4 (1999).