Beth Skorochod is Director of Practice for CollaborateUp. She is a skilled facilitator, co-creator, and designer of inclusive approaches to international development and social innovation. Beth has designed, facilitated and led workshops and meetings of global stakeholders to collaboratively develop innovative solutions for target users.
Her experience covers global marketing and social and behavior change in a variety of fields, including public health, biodiversity, and democracy rights and government, among others. She has extensive skills in strategic design of social and behavior change communication interventions, private sector engagement, corporate marketing strategy and project design, implementation and management across multiple sectors and initiatives, including HIV, family planning, tuberculosis, gender, wildlife conservation, and others.
Beth holds a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in behavioral science. She is trained in design thinking at the Stanford Design School and has led several multi-disciplinary teams to research and design solutions using complementary disciplines, including user-centered design, behavioral economics, and commercial marketing. Her tenure with Swaziland’s National AIDS Council, UNICEF, and Population Services International (PSI) allowed her to work in more than a dozen countries across Eastern and Southern Africa and she has advised local and national stakeholders in projects in the Central Asian Republics, Thailand, China, Vietnam and India.