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Landover, Maryland, United States

Assists in the design and implementation of impact evaluation surveys; cleans, merges, and summarizes large datasets in STATA and R in a global development context

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Assist MenAfriNet epidemiology team with meningitis surveillance activities in West Africa including analysis of surveillance data.• Reviewing training materials for R trainings for a two-week international training in Togo.• Creating a fictional dataset by scrambling existing data while maintaining data relationship and confidentiality for practical use in R training. • Converting SAS code used to create quarterly bulletins into R to be utilized more effectively by cleaning and analyzing meningitis surveillance data using RStudio.• Synthesizing information on meningitis epidemiology for Burkina Faso and Niger to create MenAfriNet’s quarter 2 surveillance bulletins.• Translating data surveillance tools from English to French for dissemination amongst participating French speaking MenAfriNet countries.

Chad

• Managed 15 field-level staff to implement interventions to stop guinea worm transmission. Field staff management includes training, planning, and direct field-level supervision.• Oversaw 718 employees, between 4 zones and 173 villages over a 400 square mile area.• Implemented preventative larvicide water treatment and prolonged dog and cat tethering programs.• Oversaw the transportation and distribution of resources (motorcycles and vehicles) and supplies (intervention materials, compound supplies) including vehicle maintenance record sheets and supply inventories.• Oversaw all technical aspects of GWD eradication, including surveillance, implementation of interventions used to interrupt transmission of GWD, and staff compliance with the program’s guidelines.• Generated monthly technical reports regarding the zone’s progress and how to address notable weaknesses more effectively.• Created and managed large physical budgets on 2-month intervals in cooperation with field agents.

Ngomedzap, Centre, Cameroon

• Coordinated 7 malaria and nutrition-focused youth group activities with cooperation from local NGOs, the local health center, and community health workers.• Improved upon the weekly maternal health talks at the health center by creating flip chart presentations as teaching tools, feedback with mothers, and by increasing attendance through semi-weekly advertisements in the area.• Created and implemented a 1-week capacity building malaria training and campaign where 3 health workers were trained on proper mosquito net usage, evidence-based malaria prevention strategies, and proper water sanitation methods and then disseminated the information via their sessions in smaller neighboring villages.• Created and implemented a 10-day HIV/AIDS campaign in cooperation with SOS Children’s Village, PEPFAR, and CAMNAFAW where 15 health workers were trained in addressing stigma and maintaining confidentiality.• Created and facilitated a 1-week girl's camp involving 40 young women and children and 8 local facilitators where the girls were educated on life health skills, healthy nutrition practices, gender norms.

Miami, Florida, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Environmental Health And Epidemiology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology