Experience

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  USAID

  • Delhi, India

  • Health Foreign Service Officer

    • Sep 2021 - Present
    • Delhi, India

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  USAID

  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Supervisory Senior Public Health Specialist

    • Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
    • Kyrgyzstan

    • Wrote, secured, and manage 2020 Local Works program to improve Health Ministry’s responsiveness to community needs through the adoption of social accountability, social behavior change communication, and the use of a realist evaluation to examine context around successful program implementation.• Lead USAID's Local Organizations Network initiative, to partner with local organizations and NGOs and build their capacity to secure, manage, and implement grants from USAID and other multinational organizations.• Serve as backup lead for USAID's local Advancing Nutrition project, providing program guidance and feedback on initiatives around maternal and childhood nutrition for first 1000 days after delivery through diversified diet and social behavior change initiatives. • Supervise TB lead within the HEO, offering mentorship, feedback, and helping set and monitor workplace development goals and objectives.• Activity manager for GHSC-PSM supply chain project, overseeing budgeting and program direction for improvements to Kyrgyz Republican AIDS Center’s HIV commodity forecasting and supply planning.• Serve as point person for M&E plan development for the Health and Education Office (HEO), and support HIV team in PEPFAR programming and reporting, also work to develop comprehensive evaluation plans using a variety of approaches and quantitative and qualitative analyses.

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  USAID

  • India

  • Infectious Disease Advisor (TB, GHS, HIV)

    • Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
    • India

    • Work with THALI TB partners to develop differential care models for key populations using novel technological solutions to improve treatment surveillance, adherence, and contract tracing. • Oversee the development of a nationwide communications campaign to combat TB stigma through community engagement and mass media spots. Ensure that two separately funded partners collaborated on timelines, formative assessment, campaign launch, and evaluations to ensure maximum impact of messaging.• Draft the TB division's community engagement strategy and ensure that implementing partner program designs are grounded in best practices, are monitorable, scalable, and can be evaluated fiscally and programmatically.• Collaborated with WHO and an expert panel of Indian clinicians to develop "National Guidelines on Infectious Disease and Control in Healthcare Facilities" that will be endorsed by the GoI as best practices.• Serve as activity manager of “TB Free Tibet” initiative, and work closely with the implementation partners to oversee and guide all aspects of project implementation, including strategy, leveraging of resources by public and private sector• Backstop the communications specialist, and draft speeches, briefing memos, talking points for senior embassy officials.

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  Chesapeake Health Solutions

  • South Asia

  • President

    • Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
    • South Asia

    • Developed clinically and statistically sound program clinical testing model for a novel rapid test malarial diagnostic tool in conjunction with research team and Harvard and local partners in Gujarat, India.• Provided training, technical assistance, research questions, and program monitoring and evaluation technical assistance for SYPM, a government-funded outreach organization in Delhi, India to provide shelter, medical, and preventative services to the city’s most impoverished residents.

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  Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd.

  • New Delhi Area, India

  • Assistant Vice President - Public Health

    • 2017 - 2018
    • New Delhi Area, India

    • Led system-level research and evaluation on techno-managerial program to strengthen Uttar Pradesh’s public health system through the UP Technical Support Unit (UP TSU), a collaboration between the government of India and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to improve childhood and maternal health care in India’s most populace state.• Designed monitoring and evaluation framework for a realist evaluation to determine the mechanisms, context, and outcomes of UP TSU’s systems-level work to improve UP’s medical supply chain, data-driven decision making, and development of public-private partnerships.• Headed intensive, 150-facility observational research study to determine conscious and sub-conscious triggers determining a public health clinician’s decision to refer or treat pregnant women. Managed data collection, cleaning, observer training, data synthesis and led report generation.• Designed studies and supervised comprehensive data analyses using SPSS and R to track and evaluate interventions using multivariate regression, difference-in-difference study design, and factor analysis.• Managed development of reports, mixed-methods health research surveys, articles for peer-reviewed international publications and grant applications for a diverse set of funding agencies, such as UNICEF, BMGF, and Rockefeller Foundation.

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  Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

  • United States
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Supervisory Overdose Prevention Program Manager

    • Feb 2015 - Jan 2017

    • Administer $4m in Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Department of Justice grants for: - Developing a predictive risk model for overdose in collaboration with Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and State Information Exchange by linking state health, social service, and criminal justice data; and - Supervision of an Epidemiologist and a Program Coordinator who analyze Prescription Drug Monitoring Program data and conduct targeted educational outreach for clinicians.• Develop, implement, and manage Overdose Survivors Outreach Program, a pilot project in six hospitals that embeds Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Emergency Departments to engage overdose survivors and those at risk for overdose to substance use treatment and support services through novel behavioral change strategies and medically-assisted addiction treatment.• Provide high-level coordination of Controlled Dangerous Substances Integration Unit (CDSIU), a multidisciplinary team of DHMH and local stakeholders who conduct case analyses by employing evidence-based intervention and enforcement strategies to detect questionable prescribing practices.• Manage development and implementation of an algorithm to analyze clinician controlled dangerous substance (CDS) prescribing to identify aberrant prescribing practices and conduct targeted prescriber education outreach and academic detailing.• Oversee Emergency Response Program, a program that provides comprehensive medical care and addiction treatment to patients whose care had been disrupted.

  • Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

    • Oct 2012 - Feb 2015

    • Coordinated $5m CDC-funded project to analyze state epidemiological data to identify individuals who are out of HIV treatment and re-engage them in treatment through local health department staff outreach.• Created best practices and maximized efficacy of linkage to care and partner services deliverables using in-depth data collection and analysis for Maryland’s four highest HIV morbidity counties. • Managed pilot staff performance by developing criteria to measure quality improvement measures for streamlined medical care at Maryland’s local health departments• Led partnership programs between state medical facilities and community stakeholders to utilize data to improve health outcomes of people living with HIV.• Assisted local health departments with budgeting processes for staffing, HIV outreach, and testing; then, monitored health departments’ budget implementation and funding to assure program adherence.

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  Peace Corps

  • Turkmenistan

  • Health Extension Volunteer Leader

    • Sep 2010 - Oct 2012
    • Turkmenistan

    • Authored and implemented two USAID grants to provide sustainable and monitorable clinical infectious disease (TB, HIV) and childhood and maternal health programs to target vulnerable populations.• Developed and led clinician trainings on best practices regarding DOTS, pre-natal, and cardiovascular care. • Using funds from a UNICEF grant, created Turkmen and Russian educational materials targeting underserved communities, including women and teens, and led distribution campaigns at local mosques, hospitals, and community outdoor markets• Selected as Volunteer Leader to oversee Peace Corps Turkmenistan Volunteers by resolving conflicts, ensuring viable work performance, and developing and leading emergency evacuation procedures.• Established an English language reproductive health education class for students aged 16 to 21, promoting better understanding of sexually transmitted diseases and reproduction.• Conducted independent research on infectious disease and reproductive health in rural Turkmenistan for a 68-page master’s thesis published in 2012.

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  Louisiana Office of Public Health

  • Greater New Orleans Area

  • Public Health Intern

    • 2009 - 2010
    • Greater New Orleans Area

    • Wrote policy for TB/HIV test standardization to increase testing to 100% of Orleans Parish Prison population, based on field observations and key informant interviews at five Orleans Parish prisons to develop protocol for TB, HIV, and STD testing.• Drafted and conducted survey to test 48 Louisiana schools health centers’ STD testing compliance, then compiled a report based on collected data, making policy recommendations for STD testing standardization which was proposed to state school health board.

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  University of Maryland - Shock Trauma

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Patient Advocate

    • 2007 - 2009
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    • Managed staff and patient relationships by acting as a liaison and health service educator to provide integrated healthcare for patients and families and supporting non-somatic care planning• Created program to use patient data to improve client satisfaction and reduce roadblocks to care

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  Randstad

  • Staffing Agent

    • 2006 - 2007

    • Recruited for executive and technical positions .• Made sales calls at new business centers.• Conducted intensive interviews and led job preparation seminars for potential employees .• Managed payroll, benefits and medical for over 80 employees.