Michelo Chihebule
Project Manager - CIRKUITS DREAMS Initiative. at Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Zambia- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Tonga Native or bilingual proficiency
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Bemba Native or bilingual proficiency
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Nyanja Limited working proficiency
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Bio
Credentials
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Licensed Psychosocial Counselling Practitioner
Zambia Counselling CouncilMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
HIV and AIDS
JOHNS HOPKINGS UNIVERSITY, BLOOMBERG – School of Public HealthFeb, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Organization and Knowledge Management
Global Health eLearning Centre, JOHNS HOPKINGS UNIVERSITY, BLOOMBERG – School of Public HealthFeb, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Impact Evaluation of Health Communication Programs
JOHNS HOPKINGS UNIVERSITY, BLOOMBERGJan, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
M&E Fundamentals
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthJan, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Monitoring and Evaluation
University of Zambia - Population Studies DepartmentMay, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
• Certificate in Human Ethics Curriculum
FHI 360 2017Oct, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Monitoring & Evaluation and Statistical Tools facilitator
University of Zambia
Experience
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Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Zambia
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Zambia
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager - CIRKUITS DREAMS Initiative.
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Jul 2023 - Present
•Supports HIV prevention and accessibility to biomedical interventions in communities for for Adolescent Girls and Young Women Economic Strengthening initiatives. Support bi-directional and functional mechanism for SGBV survivors by linking them to bio-medical service providers within 72hrs of exposure.• Provides overall technical support to 3 district coordinators in the implementing sites.• Prepares and consolidates monthly reports for the project.• Participates in organizational strategic planning and operationalization health strengthening approaches.• Develops participates in project concept, proposal writing and fundraising opportunities.• Supports the Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Strengthening efforts to support data use to make timely decisions.• Conducts technical support supervisions and capacity building initiatives to improve program performance. Show less
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Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist - CDC Supported DREAMS & Global Fund ADH Projects
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Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
• Coordinate all M&E activities for Community Impact to Reach Key and Undeserved Individuals for Treatment and Support – (CIRKUIT) DREAMS Project including development of M&E tools, capacity building of companies’ staff across the projects. • Provided technical assistance and support to the 5 District Coordinators and Project teams in performing data quality assessments, analysis, and reporting of progress on project indicators focusing on performance. • Lead the project team in preparing monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual reports to submit to University of Maryland (UMB) and In-Country Centres for Disease Control (CDC).• Provides technical advice and trained 3 project staff in M&E to strengthen M&E system and ensure that project staff understand their M&E roles.• Refined data collection tools and procedures for data management, collection, cleaning analysis and reporting as per donor requirements. Show less
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Vista Health Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Research Associate, Consultancy – Vista Health & MoH
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Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
• Obtained approval letter from MoH Laboratory Services Unit for data collection and mining. • Conducting research to identify the costs involved in EID and VL testing using SOC (i.e. Roche Cobas) and POC (i.e. Cepheid Gene Xpert and Abbott m-PIMA) platforms for children and adults living with HIV in Zambia • Conducted desk data mining from selected Health Management Information Systems (HMIS). • Submitted required EID and VL data to Vista Health on behalf of MoH. • Provided expert advice on equipment testing capacities, utilisation rates, test-related outcomes and cost inputs related to staff labour, materials and reagents. Show less
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Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Program Analyst, Pediatric and Adolescent Health
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Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
• Provide support with analytics under the ‘FASTER Initiative and development of recommendations to strengthen case identification, linkage to care systems, retention and viral load suppression for infants, children and adolescents. • Creatively identify, collate, and analyze available data sources in order to focus the child and adolescent HIV and TB program in Zambia towards strategies with highest impact. • Contribute towards generation of deliverables, including presentations, reports, and policy briefs, to effectively present results of analyses. • Contribute to program monitoring and evaluation and assessment of program baseline status, yearly results framework targets and ultimate impact. • Participate in the proposal development process and any other fundraising efforts for the Pediatric HIV program and FASTER initiative. • Contribute to the development and design of monitoring tools for the Pediatric and Adolescent HIV strategy. • Work with the with eMTCT/Pediatric global team as required. • Participate in knowledge sharing and skills development in quantitative analysis for fellow staff members. • Provide support to core Pediatric HIV team to ensure that the objectives and deliverables of the CHAI Zambia Pediatric HIV Program are met. • Perform any other duties as assigned by senior leadership Show less
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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700 & Above Employee
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Provincial Coordinator
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Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
• Developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for basic instrument handling and troubleshooting in health facilities including mapping entry points for infants to optimize EID coverage.• Led Provincial Point of Care Early Infant Diagnosis (POC EID) Project related activities.• Supervised Community Engagement staff to ensure community follow-ups were initiated by facility.• Supported annual projects’ Self-Assessment for POC EID testing exercise in Zambia.• Ensured that POC EID Blood Samples courier networks were fully functional between health facilities.• Conducted analyses of Laboratory Alere q platform (mPIMA) platforms Quality Control (QCs) error codes on HIV and instrument downtime and built capacity in healthcare workers.• Prepared agendas, scopes of works and materials for POC EID capacity building trainings in health facilities.• Supported the Implementation of Research to Identify, Inform and Evaluate Best Practices for Improving Quality of Care (QoC) through integrated facility and community interventions. • Contributed to generating presentations and reports on primary pediatric HIV outcomes and effectively presented results during technical review meetings with Ministry of Health and other implementing partners.• Participated in presenting key project results during global EGPAF data review meetings with other countries.• Assembled, analyzed, and edited basic data required for planning and programming.• Provided Technical Support to Lab Technologists/none Lab Staff on Alere Q (mPIMA) POC EID machine basic troubleshooting and maintenance procedures using SOPs. Show less
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Research Associate - Clinical Data, New Horizon Project
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Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
• Reviewed study protocols and tools for clinical data collection and submitted for approval to the Local IRB - University of Zambia Biomedical Ethics Committee (UNZABREC) and National Research Health Authority (NRHA).• Implemented and Maintained Quality Assurance and Quality Control Systems in the New Horizons study.• Ensured that the study was conducted and documented in compliance with the approved study protocol.• Planned for data collection and ensured that all resources were available for In-Country Data Collectors.• Submitted project data for describing the baseline demographics, clinical and laboratory profile of patients who ever received donated product, at the time of initiation on DRV and/or ETR at UTH – PCOCE & ADCH.• Supported, describe demographics, clinical and laboratory profile of young adults who transition out of the Donated Antiretroviral Program after the age of 19 years at 12 months after their transition in 3 Teaching Hospitals in Zambia.• Participated routine meetings with EGPAF global team in Washington DC and other implementing countries to ensure effective communication among study team members on data and safety monitoring in Zambia, Malawi, and Rwanda.• Supported sharing of data findings both at global, national and sub-national levels. Show less
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Monitoring And Evaluation Officer
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Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
• Reviewed, verified, and analyzed Pediatric Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis POC EID data for clarity, consistency, and completeness.• Designed monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems such developed data collection SOPs.• Contributed to conducting literature reviews, mappings or information gathering from various internal and external sources on HIV Exposed Infants (HEIs) in Zambia in mapping baseline data collection tools.• Contributed to the improvement of Health Management Information Systems (HIMS), M&E activities, and data quality checks by undertaking visits to facilities as needed to support data collection and resolve data quality issues.• Conducted data quality assessments (DQAs) and ensured accuracy of entered data and compared it with the existing facility filing system and registers to make sure all records were consistent and aligned.• Collaborated well with Ministry of Health (MoH) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) technical staff to interpret data for program adjustment and implementation strategies as required to maximize impact. • Uploaded clean data to SharePoint, project dashboard in Microsoft Power BI and resolved data errors.• Performed data quality control for quality assurance activities in Laboratory External Quality Assurance.• Conducted monthly monitoring and evaluation (M&E) site monitoring support visits in health facilities. Show less
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Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
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Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
• Led the development data collection tools and visualization tools using Epi-Info 7.1. • Developed data management and analysis platform in Epi-Info 7 and SPSS. • Conducted data assessments (DQA) and built capacity in healthcare workers (HCWs) and project staff. • Undertook monitoring visits in 11 and 9 Schools in Lusaka and Chingola Districts respectively. • Improved health seeking behavior among young people in achieving the DREAMS Initiative from 23% at baseline to 80% among 200 enrolled Adolescent Girls. USAID DISCOVER Health Project – Latkings Outreach Program (LOP) and John Snow, Inc. (JSI) • Managed PIPAT online reporting dashboard for HIV case linkages in 20 health facilities working with over 90 psychosocial counsellors and health care workers in DREAMS implementing districts in Lusaka, Copperbelt & North Western Provinces. • Managed a database of over 50,000 Clients in HIV Testing Services (HTS) with over 5000 linkages to Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) and care with above 90% retention to care and treatment in 2016. • Built capacity in over 90 psychosocial counsellors and site level supervisors in electronic mobile HTS result submission to PIPAT project dashboard. • Used data to contribute towards Strategic decision in Initiation of Index Case Testing and Partner Notification Services (PNS) in Selected Facilities among identified Index Clients Show less
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University Of Zambia
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Lusaka -Zambia
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Facilitator/Tutor: Project Management, SPSS, STATA, MS Office Suit and M&E Designs Trainer
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Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
- Customized pure and applied social science research consultant and data management expert - Facilitates the use and application statistical data software for capturing, entering, cleaning and analysis. - Facilitating in best Project Management and M&E tools designs and adoption in Evidence based interventions. - Data mining and reporting on Key Performance Indicators - Customized pure and applied social science research consultant and data management expert - Facilitates the use and application statistical data software for capturing, entering, cleaning and analysis. - Facilitating in best Project Management and M&E tools designs and adoption in Evidence based interventions. - Data mining and reporting on Key Performance Indicators
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Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf)
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Zambia
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Management - Media Monitoring
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Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Designing the Database for data Entry and Data analysis on media monitoring and evaluation on women during the August, 2016 Pre-Election, During Election and Post-election periods.
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Data Officer
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May 2016 - Aug 2016
-Online Data Management-Cleaning-Verification and-Entry
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Central Statistical office
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Kuzangula District Southern Province Of Zambia
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Enumerator
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Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Data collection Data collection
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Education
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2011 - 2015
University of Zambia
B.A Development Studies with Public Administration, Research and Development Management -
2023 - 2025
University of Lusaka - UNILUS
Master's of science degree, Epidemiology and Biostatistics -
2019 - 2019
African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP)
Advanced Certificate in Data Analysis For Sustainable Development Planning, Data Processing for Decion Making -
2018 - 2018
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Certificate in M&E Fundamentals, Statistics -
2005 - 2009
Canisius High School
High School Certificate, Art/Art Studies, General
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