Experience

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  USAID/Bangladesh

  • Population,Health, Nutrition Advisor

    • Oct 2015 - Present
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  USAID

  • New Delhi, India

  • Acting Deputy Director, Office of Health, USAID/India New Delhi (Intermittent)

    • Apr 2014 - Nov 2014
    • New Delhi, India

    . Serve as the Acting Deputy Director for USAID/I innovative partner-based assistance program, which is assisting India become a leader in the global initiative to end preventable maternal and child deaths (Actual and Virtual).. Led the final design, approval and development of the procurement do...

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  USAID/Central Asian Republics (CAR)

  • Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Actg Director Office of Health & Education, USAID/CAR

    • Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
    • Almaty, Kazakhstan

    . Led USAID/CAR regional team which supports health and education programs in the five Central Asian Republics. Helped realign staff functions and support systems for other CAR missions and offices. Reviewed HIV and TB programs in Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic

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  USAID/Uganda

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Consultant Health Assistance Program Design

    • Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
    • Kampala, Uganda

    . Reviewed documents and conducted field visits. Helped finalize logical frameworks and technical assessments . Helped draft and finalize the concept paper and project appraisal documents for USAID’s multi-million dollar, innovative five year Health, HIV and Education Program. Wrote the program d...

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  USAID/Liberia

  • Monrovia, Liberia

  • Consultant Program Design

    • Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
    • Monrovia, Liberia

    Helped prepare the program description (statement of work) for USAID/Liberia's major new five year, Health System Strengthening and Community Mobilization Program

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  USAID/Rwanda

  • Kigali, Rwanda

  • Consultant - Program Design and Review (Intermittent)

    • Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
    • Kigali, Rwanda

    . Led the design of one of the first, government to government (G2G) major direct health financing programs . Worked with Health Team Leader, the Regional Legal Advisor, other Mission offices and multiple USAID/W offices to determine the new legal and organizational requirements, interagency coor...

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  USAID/Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Acting Director, Office of Health and Social Transition, USAID/UMB

    • Sep 2010 - Jun 2011
    • Kyiv, Ukraine

    . Served as the Acting Office Director, PEPFAR Coordinator and Global Health Initiative Lead and Senior Staff Member. Managed $22 million portfolio including PEPFAR, USAID, and GHI strategy design and special reporting. Initiated 7 new procurements and 5 new hiring actions

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  Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

  • Ulan Batar, Mongolia

  • Program Advisor/Consultant (Intermittent)

    • Feb 2007 - Jul 2010
    • Ulan Batar, Mongolia

    . Helped design the first national non-communicable disease and injuries program in Asia and Eurasia for MCC and the Government of Mongolia with MCC's Mongolian Team. . Worked with the GOM and MCC to launch the program, orient new contractors and sponsor a national NCDI survey with World Heal...

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  USAID/Central Asia Regional Mission (CAR)

  • Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Acting Director, Office of Health and Education, USAID/CAR

    • May 2010 - Jun 2010
    • Almaty, Kazakhstan

    .Served as Acting Director while both the Director and Deputy Director were out of country . Designed emergency response to major polio outbreaks in all five countries, got approval for a new activity and secured $3 million in extra funding . Helped reorganize the office structure and prepared po...

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  USAID/Timor Leste

  • Dili, Timor Leste

  • Acting Program Officer and Advisor (Intermittent)

    • Apr 2009 - Mar 2010
    • Dili, Timor Leste

    . Prepared 2009 Operations Plan. . Finalized new multi-year USAID multi-sector country strategy. . Mentored new USAID team.

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  Medical Service Corporation International

  • Arlington, Virginia, Tbilisi, Georgia, Moscow, ...

  • Health Advisor (Intermittent)

    • Feb 2007 - Nov 2009
    • Arlington, Virginia, Tbilisi, Georgia, Moscow, ...

    . Represented MSCI at WHO Non-communicable Disease and Injury Meeting . Assisted with implementation TB program in Georgia . Received Global Fund for AIDS, TB, Malaria (GFATM) Headquarters Grant ManagementTraining . Helped write the proposal which qualified MSCI for USAID/TB awards

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  USAID/Mozambique

  • Maputo, Mozambique

  • HIV/AIDS Consultant (Intermittent)

    • Sep 2008 - Mar 2009
    • Maputo, Mozambique

    . Helped USAID/Mozambique design HIV/AIDS interventions and program and procurement documents

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  The Mitchell Group for USAID/Ethiopia

  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Evaluation Team Leader

    • May 2008 - Jun 2008
    • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    . Led nine person U.S. and Ethiopian team evaluating USAID’s ten-year investment in family planning/maternal and child health program.

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  USAID/Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus

  • Kyiv, Ukraine

  • Short term Consultant

    • Nov 2006 - Nov 2006
    • Kyiv, Ukraine

    . Developed next five-year HIV/AIDS strategy. . Helped the mission prepare their country operations plan for HIV/AIDS

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  United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

  • Team Leader, Health, Democracy & Social Transition Office, Europe & Eurasia Bureau (EE)

    • Jan 2003 - Nov 2006

    . Revitalized EE health programming and energized teams . Generated $40 million in additional resources . Strengthened programs in avian flu, health reform, HIV/AIDS, primary health care, family planning and tuberculosis in 21 EE countries

  • Acting Chief, Strategic Planning, Evaluation and Reporting Division, Office of HIV/AIDS, Global Heal

    • Dec 2000 - Jan 2003

    .Created USAID's first HIV/AIDS Planning and Evaluation Unit. Helped develop USAID’s first global HIV/AIDS strategy . Led the design and implementation . bof regional and country HIV/AIDS strategies, operations plans and monitoring and reporting systems in 30 countries

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  USAID/Central Asian Republics (CAR)

  • Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Director, Program Office, USAID Regional Mission for Central Asia

    • Sep 1998 - Dec 2000
    • Almaty, Kazakhstan

    . Managed the strategic planning, program design, budgeting, training and monitoring and reporting for USAID’s $100 million regional and bilateral programs in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan . Developed budgeting systems, which were later, adopted by USAID/W E&amp...

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  United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

  • Chief, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Center for Development Information and Evalua

    • Feb 1995 - Sep 1998

    . Strengthened USAID’s capability to manage more strategically for better development results . Developed multi-sector country strategic plans and performance monitoring and reporting systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Acting Chief and Deputy, Family Planning Services Division, Office of Population, Global Bureau

    • Mar 1992 - Feb 1995

    . Co-authored USAID global guidance for the design and review of family planning programs . Managed a comprehensive portfolio of grantees and contractors working in family planning service delivery

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  United States Agency for International Development

  • Washington, D.C.

  • Various - Social Scientist- Research - Program Analyst, Global Bureau, USAID

    • Oct 1980 - Mar 1992
    • Washington, D.C.

    . Wrote one of the agency’s first child survival strategies . Managed innovative global family planning programs . Developed and reviewed global health and population programs and budgets.

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  General Research Corporation, Mathematica, Peac...

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area, Princeton, NJ.

  • Various - Senior Scientist, Program Analyst, White House Committee Staff,

    • Oct 1961 - Mar 1980
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area, Princeton, NJ.

    General Research Corporation, McLean, Virginia: Staffed and proposed consultant teams for short-term international technical assistance Public Technology Inc., Washington, D.C.: Prepared technical briefs for the managers and mayors of the largest U.S. cities Mathematic, Inc., Princeton, N.J.: Pr...