Experience

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  Ministry of Health of Zambia

  • Muchinga province

  • District Health Officer

    • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Muchinga province

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  World Food Forum (WFF)

  • Rome, Italy

  • TRC Youth Mentor

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • Rome, Italy

    Mentoring young people in Research, in order to improve the food systems and promote youth actions on this works

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  United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth

  • East and Southern Africa

  • Regional Focal Point

    • Apr 2020 - Present
    • East and Southern Africa

     Develop and execute a regional and a global annual action plan of the working group (WG) in line with “Policy Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability” framework along the four areas of work; knowledge creation/exchange, youth action, capacity building, and policy advocacy. Participate and facilitate through regional consultations in preparation of formal Inputs (statements, zero-draft summary papers and reports etc.) related to the Regional elements of their respective process and engagement avenues in Coordination with the working group, the UN MGCY coordination team and the Assembly, and where appropriate, with other stakeholders, as per the process and procedures document; Conduct outreach with relevant children and youth entities and stakeholder’s in The region, with the help of the regional caucus and according to the outreach Strategy, to inform them of the engagement, and invite them to join in and share Relevant materials; Facilitate the involvement of young people from local to regional and to global in The engagement of the working group from your region; Coordinate regular and timely Regional members’ calls; and promote Engagement opportunities for the members to take part in global processes. Attend the bimonthly WG call, provide updates on regional and global action plan implementation and activities taking place in the region.Note: This engagement is usually done, while you are engaged in other programs, for it is a timely responsibility more like a Union not a full time job. Full time Students, those with full time jobs, part-time and those doing nothing they do engage

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  National Institute for Scientific And Industrial Research

  • Zambia

  • Technical Officer

    • Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
    • Zambia

    The department has a Chemistry, Microbiology, biochemistry and Nutrition clinic lab. NUTRITION CLINIC LAB;a) Worked on a joint project on Nutrition Assessment called the Golden Method using deuterium oxide. This is an isotope used in nutrition assessment currently at UTH, here in Zambia. b) Analyzed saliva samples using FTIR and Agilent technologies. Determining the nutrition status using Fat and Free Fat mass.c) Determined breast milk intake and the amount of water in the body.d) Preparation of deuterium standards, used to check the variation of the results and accuracy of the machine.e) Assessed the nutrition statuses using Anthropometric Measurements (i.e. Weight, Height, Body Mass Index (BIM), Waist Circumference, MUAC and Head Circumference.  MICROBIOLOGY LAB1)Media and Sample Preparation2)I worked on these micro-organisms on food and water samples in a project with Newrest and many other clients.a) Yeast and Mold b) Salmonella c) S. aureus d) Total coli forms e) Aerobic Plate Count f) E. coli  FOOD CHEMISTRY LAB;a) Did Proximate and Ultimate Analyses on Food Samples: Proximate Analysis (i.e. Moisture Content, Ash, Crude Protein, Fat, Fibre, Carbohydrate and Energy) And Ultimate Analysis (i.e. Analyzed Oil Samples, Alcoholic% determination, Total/Reducing Sugars, Starch% determination and Vitamin Titration).b) Determined the Nutritional Value and Labeling in new productsc) Determined the food shelf life.d) Preparation of reagents from Pellets/powdered, Concentrated solutions and Standard solutions with a known concentration. In all these laboratories had a) Read the resultsb) Interpreted the resultsc) Reported the resultsd) Trained Students on attachments

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  Chelston Clinic

  • Zambia

  • Nutrition Specialist

    • Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
    • Zambia

    • Conducting Growth Monitoring and Promotion (Nutrition Assessments)• Conducting Nutrition Health talk• Conducting Nutrition Education with all the departments at the clinic and outside clinic• Doing Nutrition Counseling • Working with the communities on a program called outreaches• Giving RUTF to the Undernourished, who are on out-pt-feeding program and Monitoring their nutrition status• Giving Nutrition advise to Patients and those needs advice it, especially people on ART• Administering Questionnaire for the Research• Educating people on Family planning following GATHER• Monitoring the nutrition status of communities in the catchment area, especially those on our out-pt-feed program• Carried out a research on assessment of the factors that leads to food insecurity in households with undernourished children in Chelstone Catchment Area