Brianán Kiernan

Associate Director, Partnerships at Zenysis Technologies
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  • French Professional working proficiency
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency

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Paul Gray

Brianan is utterly dedicated to the causes she cares about, and is truly one of the few very brightest people I have had as a student in my 40 years of teaching st Boston College.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Associate Director, Partnerships
      • Aug 2022 - Present

      Zenysis provides technical assistance and data and technology services to Ministries of Health and partners in Benin, Brazil, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zambia to strengthen health information systems and digital health, train the public health workforce and promote data use for improved public health outcomes. Its open source software, Harmony, integrates siloed health information systems, databases and other datasets (ex: CSV files) into one platform to support data visualization, comparison, triangulation and advanced analytics.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Advisor and Program Manager
      • Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

      - Split my time between the UCSF Global Strategic Information and Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action teams - Led the $4 million per year, CDC funded Global Health Security program with a focus on integrating disease surveillance data systems and surveillance for COVID-19 and IDSR, providing technical assistance to Ministries of Health (MOH) in the MENA region and overseeing a small team - Managed the $700,000 per year, PEPFAR funded HIV surveillance program in Burundi, providing technical assistance and project management on implementation, dashboard development and data use working in partnership with Population Services International, the Burundian MOH, CDC, PEPFAR, and USAID - Led the landscape assessment of using machine learning for outbreak response in LMICs for the CDC’s Field Epidemiology Training Program, interviewing 20+ industry experts - Managed the intimate partner violence in HIV testing services research evaluation in Namibia, working closely with the CDC and the MOH of Namibia to develop tools, train data collectors and oversee data collection - Led the development, oversaw the roll-out and was a Lead Trainer for the COVID-19 school guidance training for local health departments in the State of California to support schools as they reopened during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021 - Carried out the training of data collectors in Luanda, Angola for the CDC funded COVID-19 Household Communication survey with the MOH of Angola - Supported CDC Côte d’Ivoire with Data Quality Assurance for HIV, leading the assessment of data quality challenges among PEPFAR implementing partners and developing tools for improving HIV data quality

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Program Manager, Diagnostics
      • Dec 2019 - Aug 2020

      - Managed a team of three while overseeing the diagnostics portfolio, providing technical assistance to the MOH in Senegal to improve their HIV, cervical cancer, and COVID-19 diagnostics programs- Working in partnership with the HIV Division of the MOH, successfully piloted, evaluated, scaled, and transitioned the use of Point-of-Care (POC) technology for HIV early infant diagnosis and viral load testing in 15 health centers across 11 regions in Senegal - Launched the HPV pilot with the Non-Communicable Disease Division of the MOH to introduce HPV testing on GeneXpert devices in 4 health centers to provide access to cervical cancer screening and treatment for 4,000 women- Collaborating with the Laboratory Division of the MOH, increased COVID-19 PCR diagnostic capacity on automated platforms in public sector laboratories in Senegal

    • Senior Associate, HIV Diagnostics
      • Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

      - Carried out quantitative data collection using SurveyCTO and oversaw data analysis and data visualization for the POC pilot. Disseminated findings to national level stakeholders, donors and the MOH- Following the success of the POC pilot, scaled up EID and VL testing to an additional 5 health centers, and secured the inclusion of HIV EID And VL POC tests in the annual national quantification exercise

    • Associate, HIV Diagnostics
      • Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

      - Provided technical assistance to the HIV Division of the MOH to pilot the decentralization of EID and VL testing on POC laboratory devices in 8 health centers with 157 EID and 1,822 VL tests carried out during the pilot

    • United States
    • Research Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Program Officer
      • Feb 2017 - Jul 2018

      - As team lead for the USAID and BMGF funded adolescent sexual and reproductive health project in Kinshasa, DRC, coordinated research and intervention activities with Johns Hopkins University and Save the Children, and oversaw M&E, work planning, budgeting, and reporting - Designed and oversaw data collection and analysis for a participatory youth-led evaluation with a local girl-led research organization in Kinshasa, DRC to inform the project design for scale-up - Provided technical assistance to the UNFPA’s Husbands’ Schools in Niger, and the Grandmother Project in Senegal

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Program Coordinator, Access Programs
      • Nov 2015 - Feb 2017

      - Supported the DFID funded Access Programs’ New Market Opportunities and Hepatitis teams with coordination and programmatic activities including summits in Thailand, Kenya, and South Africa - Led the scoping and analysis to integrate diagnosis and treatment for depression and HIV, an initiative that was integrated in the HIV quality of care program - Supported the DFID funded Access Programs’ New Market Opportunities and Hepatitis teams with coordination and programmatic activities including summits in Thailand, Kenya, and South Africa - Led the scoping and analysis to integrate diagnosis and treatment for depression and HIV, an initiative that was integrated in the HIV quality of care program

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Ghana Country Manager
      • Jun 2012 - Aug 2014

      - Oversaw all West Africa operations, finance, logistics, and expansion opportunities for Saha Global’s 76 women-run water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) community businesses. Managed the Tamale and Salaga offices in Ghana, including a team of five District Managers - Oversaw all West Africa operations, finance, logistics, and expansion opportunities for Saha Global’s 76 women-run water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) community businesses. Managed the Tamale and Salaga offices in Ghana, including a team of five District Managers

    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Field Representative
      • Oct 2011 - Jan 2012

    • Intern
      • May 2011 - Aug 2011

    • Switzerland
    • Civic and Social Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Boston University Intern
      • Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

Education

  • Boston College
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cum Laude, International Studies with a focus in Economics and Minor in French
  • Boston University
    International Relations and Affairs
  • Institut catholique de Paris
    French Language and Literature
  • Trinity College, Dublin
    Master of Science (M.Sc.), Global Health

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