Professional Experience:
• Providing operational and technical oversight for project team in support of Ebola response activities, collaborating with CDC, NIH, USAID, Liberian MoH
• Contributor in MoH, CDC, WHO, NIH lessons-learned committee to evaluate sustainability of project activities, analyze M&E results and develop recommendations
• Coordinating compassionate use treatment of ZMapp™ in pediatric patients with Ebola Virus
• Planning and implementing transfer of Ebola vaccine to Liberian MoH
• Ensuring timely project implementation and completion of deliverables by sub-grantees
• Managing 5-year program expanding health care services for Ebola survivors
• Identifying needs, designing and implementing technical trainings for health care staff to ensure quality delivery of medical services
• Developing standardized continuous quality improvement training materials for sub-grantees
U.S. Fulbright Scholar - Mozambique
• Established strategic plans for scale-up of HIV/AIDS outreach and mobilization program for KP
• Implemented expanded HIV surveillance, testing and treatment linkage services for HIV+ MSM (PEFAR)
• Developed demographic, social, risk, behavioral, knowledge and attitude questionnaires with MSM input and participation
• Expanded workshops in collaboration with KP organizations to develop engagement skills for outreach to the MSM community
• Facilitated South African-Zimbabwe-Mozambique local KP organization partnerships
• Collaborated with MSM community and KP organizations to establish and train first MSM-centered Community Advisory Board in Mozambique
• Initiated a multi-agency partnerships for PEPFAR KP projects
• Implemented first-in Mozambique eForm and cloud technologies for data collection and analysis
• Trained staff in PEPFAR specific M&E tools and reporting requirements to track outcomes and expenditures
• Developed strategies to optimize KP recruitment and retention in multi-year programs
• Led collaborative project with Médicins Sans Frontiér (MSF) evaluating established HIV prevention activities versus PrEP treatment in KP
• M.Sc. Thesis Advisor: “Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices about Methods of HIV Prevention among 200 MSM in Beira, Mozambique”
Deputy Director, Henry Jackson Foundation
• Participated in developing program’s annual strategic plans and timelines
• Managed $17 million annual department budget, project deliverables and financial reports
• Generated cooperative agreements, MOUs and risk mitigation plans for stakeholders
• Direct supervisor and mentor for three program managers and six M&E staff
• Led multi-disciplinary project teams for operational and epidemiology studies
• Prepared annual progress reports for the Foundation and stakeholders
• Assessed local HIV service delivery and identified needs and gaps in care for key populations
• Managed technical design and implementation of HIV prevention, care and treatment programs for LGBT and FSW in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozamb