Experience

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  Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

  • Zambia
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Research Coordinator

    • Aug 2018 - Present

    I joined CIDRZ as a research fellow under the fellowship program. My work focuses on leading behavioural science and mental health research. My line of work focuses on grant writing, protocol development, research implementation, data collection, data analysis and publication in peer reviewed journals.

  • HealthCorps Research Fellow 2018- 2019

    • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

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  Orygen

  • Australia

  • Global Mental Health Fellow-Advocacy

    • Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
    • Australia

    Among the 10 selected young people from a worldwide application on the fellowship program. The Orygen Global Youth Mental Health Advocacy Fellowship is a six-month virtual program for 10 young people from across the globe who are passionate about youth mental health and want to create change in the mental health landscape of their country. The fellowship has been established to build the capacity, skills and voices of young people to create positive change in mental health awareness, policy and systems reform.

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  African Young Leaders for Global Health

  • Lagos, Nigeria

  • Country Coordinator

    • Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
    • Lagos, Nigeria

    -Working in a voluntary role to build and strengthen the membership base for African Young Leaders for Global Health in my country.-Acting as the focal person for my country and communicating regularly with the AYLGH executive team.-Developing and implementing annual work plans for the AYLGH country chapter.

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  Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.

  • Zambia

  • Data Analyst and Dissemination Associate- Internship

    • Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
    • Zambia

    Working as team leader to identify, refine and prioritise three priority policy questions that can be answered with rigorous impact evaluations on an accelerated timeline. The urgency is necessitated by the need to inform a pending policy decisition with evidence. Those three prioritised questions resulted in the design of 3 impact evaluations below. Worked as team leader on a randomised controlled trial to assess the mother-infant pair clinic on retention of HIV exposed infants in elimination of mother to child transmission (EMTCT) care

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  University of Southampton

  • Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Qualitative Researcher- Internship

    • Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
    • Southampton, United Kingdom

    I conducted a qualitative research with the aim of understanding the needs of street beggars in Southampton. The age group included adult males that are currently living on the streets and begging. Street begging and homelessness are currently on the rise in the United Kingdom and the government is working towards effective measures to reduce the burden. A survey conducted by Southampton City Council in 2015, found 51 street beggars in the city which is high compared to other cities in Hampshire. The results from this research where presented to Southampton City Council and used for policy reform in the change of mental health rehabilitation services.

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  SABMiller

  • Lusaka

  • Regional Risk Controller - Southern Region

    • Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
    • Lusaka

    I was responsible for managing company branches in the Southern Region. I traveled monthly to these branches to prepare for safety audits and maintain environmental standards

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  Electoral Commission of Zambia

  • Zambia

  • Assistant Registration Officer-Field

    • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
    • Zambia

    Worked with the Electoral Commission of Zambia in registering voters for the 2016 general elections in Copperbelt province. Successfully registered over 3000 voters in the system.

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  LafargeHolcim

  • Ndola

  • Environmental Officer(Intern)

    • Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
    • Ndola

    Worked in the environmental department to reduce pollution and improve waste management at Lafarge. One of the key successes was thel implementation of the reafforestation project at the Ndola plant.

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  CSO (Central Statistics Office)

  • Zambia

  • Field Interviewer

    • Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
    • Zambia

    Worked Central Statistical Department in collecting household national data for the 2010 Census in Zambia.