Dr. Margaret Henning is a Senior Learning Advisor with USAID/Ethiopia. Dr. Henning received her master’s in health education from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in public health from Oregon State University, with a focus on international health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Takemi Fellow in International Health. Dr. Henning has worked in Kenya, Botswana, Rwanda, and Zambia, and now works in Ethiopia. In recent years she was awarded a Spencer grant and a Fulbright Research award to study school re-entry policies for adolescent mothers and the Community Health workers' role in supporting Maternal Child Health for young mothers in Zambia. Dr. Henning is also a professor in Health Sciences at Keene State. Her current work is focused on leading the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) effort within the USAID/Ethiopia Mission, a set of practices to help improve development effectiveness. Learning has always been part of the work; the aim now is to make CLA more systematic and intentional.