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Bilingual health project manager with 12 years of professional and volunteer experience in clinical and community health with marginalized populations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I can relocate immediately and willing to live in a hardship post. |
 Contact Daniel Anson
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
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Professional Experience: |
Through my work with CRS and the Peace Corps over 4 years, I gained community and institutional based international development experience with with proposal development, implementation, rmonitoring/evaluation, and budgeting/financial tracking. Through my work and volunteer experience with non-profit organizations in the US, I gained experience with research, advocacy, analysis, youth organizing, community mobilization, and health education. I worked as an Occupational Therapist for 5 years in resource poor settings, in schools and hospitals, providing treatment and evaluation services.
Technical project skills: capacity building of partners, HIV programming, quantitative & qualitative evaluation methods, technical report writing, research of evidence based health/development issues, Permaculture innovations, community organizing and leadership development, & policy/media advocacy.
• Certified in HIV pre/post test counseling (with official methodology from Center for Disease Control)
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Education: |
*Master of Public Health University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Aug 2004
-Passed final oral defense “with distinction” on analysis of health data research
*Master of Occupational Therapy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA May 2000
-Nominated for outstanding fieldwork student and health science honor’s society
*Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA May 1999
-Academic Dean’s List for 7 semesters; Presidential Merit Award Scholarship for 4 years
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
*Collaborated in drafting $500,000 proposal (budget & activity plan) for an early childhood development project in Tanzania [subsequently awarded to CRS]; Prepared report and idea note on ECD interventions to 2nd donor
*Trained 30 Dominican youth as peer educators on HIV/pregnancy prevention to reach 1,500 youth and adults in behavioral health change messages and HIV
*Constructed 20 ventilated pit latrines for low-income Dominican families with assistance from local clinic staff and university
*Drafted 3 major sections of a 5-year CRS/TZ Strategic Program Plan with participation in 5 workshops, providing assistance to draft results framework & strategies, issues identification, and vulnerability mapping analysis
*Counseled and trained over 30 migrant farm workers during harvest season on HIV & STD prevention
*Performed standardized evaluations, consultations, and tailored therapeutic treatment in diverse settings including the Navajo reservation, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, and Kenya
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Available for: |
- Consulting assignments
- Job opportunities
- Internships / Fellowships
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