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■ Global Portfolio -- 25+ years leading a global, multisectoral portfolio in service to billions of dollars in government, philanthropic, private, and UN investments. ■ Enterprise Level Operations -- Record of exceptional fiscal management, organizational acumen, & cross-functional leadership to improve business performance & reduce risk ■ Strategy -- Experience co-creating & shaping strategy, aligning mission, vision, goals with staffing, resources, & activities. ■ Advisory -- Expertise guiding ministries, agencies, funders to improve strategy, performance, impacts, cost effectiveness, scalability, sustainability, quality, & use data for decision making & consensus building. Supported sector-wide strategy development, i.e. across the Liberia Energy Sector, USAID government-to-government global health partnerships, Gates-funded initiatives & multi-donor efforts to scale cash transfers. Strategy includes legal framework, resources, partners, staffing, technology, M&E ■ Partnerships -- 25+ years engaging allies across academia, bilaterals (CIDA, EU, FCDO, KFW, MCC, NORAD, USAID), communities, agencies (GAVI, GFATM, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, WB+), governments, NGOs, philanthropies (Gates, Hewlett, MacArthur, Dubai Cares)+■ Leadership -- Reputation for leading happy teams, building commitment to a shared mission, staff development, growth mindset, & collaborative decision making. ■ Business Development -- Adept at synthesizing market research & business intelligence to understand landscape, identify opportunities, solutions, efficiencies, & multipliers across sectors, ecosystems, partners, & geographies. Adept at diversifying funding, & nurturing relationships.■ Client Accounts -- Known for exceptional technical & management capabilities (evidenced by CPAR reports). Successful at establishing a shared strategy, creating a culture of communication, learning, & accountability, mobilizing & managing resources. ■ Multisectoral -- Climate & Financing | Economic Development | Education | Energy & Utilities | Health Systems | Governance | Infrastructure | Poverty Reduction | Public Health | Social Protection | Women, Gender, Youth, & Vulnerable Pops | Workforce Development ■ Technical Expertise & Complex Analytics -- Advanced methodological expertise to examine systems, sectors, political economy, implementation & evaluations to assess & improve outcomes, impact, access, equity, costs, governance, HR, financing, IT, & legal, regulatory, & policy■ USA and 30+ countries across Africa, Asia, Central America, Eastern Europe, & Middle East.

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Candace Miller Work Experience Details
  • Consultant / Self-Employed
    Strategic Advisory
    Consultant / Self-Employed
    Boston, Ma, Us
  • Abt Global
    Heta Senior Health Advisor
    Abt Global Nov 2024 - Present
    Rockville, Maryland, Us
    I support the Health Electrification and Telecommunication Alliance (HETA), a USAID Global Development Alliance (GDA), which aims to activate private sector expertise and resources toward sustainable development. Our five-year goal is to accelerate electrification and power 10,000 health facilities, which will strengthen health systems and ultimately, improve health outcomes. Power Africa and USAID funding (about $47 million over five years) helps launch implementation and catalyze strategic partnerships toward this ambitious target. The overall resource need is estimated at $100–150 million in additional contributions from HETA’s partners.
  • Abt Global
    Principal, Global Impact, Growth, And Partnerships
    Abt Global Sep 2024 - Present
    Rockville, Maryland, Us
    Supporting Abt's global portfolio, which spans 60 countries and includes impactful projects in our Global Health; Climate, Energy, and Environment; Resilient Economies; and Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Accounts.
  • Independent
    Strategic Advisory | Consultant
    Independent Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
    Supported organizations with strategic advisory; business development and intelligence; partnership, network and coalition building; and evidence-based implementation, research, and evaluation. Helped organizations maximize impacts and investments in climate, renewable energy, health system strengthening, economic development, workforce development, and technology and innovation for financial inclusion. Recommendations and data support decision-making, strategic planning, resource allocation, programmatic improvements, policy development, and improving impact, inclusion, and sustainability. Clients & consortiums include Abt Global, Arizona State University, Action Against Hunger, Cross Boundary, LLC, J.E. Austin Associates, GEMnet Health, Global Communities, Gobin Global, Konektaid, Key Lime, MSI Worldwide, Bizzell, Last Mile Health, LINC, Wollo, Mekelle, and Samara Universities, Mindset, World Council of Credit Unions, Power for All, and others.
  • The Khana Group
    Ceo
    The Khana Group 2023 - Oct 2023
    New York, Ny : New York, Us
    ■ Operations & financial systems -- Led team to update systems, processes, and policies for enterprise budgeting, forecasting cash flow, financial reporting, securing audits, internal controls, segregation of duties, procurement, data security, cost tracking, compliance, project reviews+. ■ Client & account management -- Led the multisectoral, 30+ country portfolio with clients including Carter Center, C4ED, Cloudburst, Catholic Relief, Engender Health, Evidence Action, FHI360, Gallup, Gates, Harvard University, Hilton, ICF, MasterCard, MacArthur, NORC, Plan, Rainforest Alliance, RTI, Save, Social Impact, USAID, UNDP, UNICEF, WB.■ Technical support -- Portfolio focused on complex development and humanitarian issues and include multi-country studies, such as CLASP and donor funded climate mitigation efforts, USAID digitalization for financial inclusion investments, WB cash transfers, USAID health systems interventions, and philanthropic investments in protecting children in crisis, reducing child labor, and reducing violent extremism.■ Business Intelligence & Development -- Updated procedures and cadence for monitoring funders’ forecasts, industry sites; attended professional meetings; relationship building with program & contract staff; conducted a competitor analysis; and partner networking. Created client-centered proposal templates to rapidly develop technical and financial proposals. Developed sector capacity statements to highlight experience in locally led development, innovative approaches in M&E, & digital data solutions. ■ Strategy & Partnerships -- Joined 18 consortiums to bid on large USAID mechanisms..**I left TKG because the owner continuously engaged in grave fiduciary mismanagement--including using USAID funds for his political campaign--that negatively impacted contracts, clients, & staff. I reported his activities to the USAID Office of the Inspector General, NY State Attorney General's Office, Federal Trade Commission, & clients.
  • Mathematica
    Principal
    Mathematica Jun 2013 - May 2023
    Princeton, New Jersey, Us
    ■ Managed a global, multisectoral portfolio.■ Client Management -- State, federal, & philanthropic accounts, advising on strategy, resource allocation, & increasing impact. Focused on deepening & expanding relationships, understanding priorities and pain points to inform exceptional service delivery. ■ Business Development & Strategy -- Worked company-wide to lead and support B&D ensuring growth and diversification across client/sector portfolios. Supported strategy, including synthesizing competitor and landscape analyses and business intelligence.■ Team Leadership -- Led multicultural teams—with dozens to hundreds of staff, often remotely—to implement projects globally. Prioritized servant leadership, creating an esprit-de-corps, ensuring mission-focus, building strong, trusting relationships, working collaboratively, offering supported growth opportunities, & feedback.■ Business Operations -- Managed budgets, invoices, contracts ($100k to $37 million); Recruited, managed subcontractors, consultants, vendors; Ensured accountability across all roles/activities. Served as senior global lead on EPMO, coordinating with biz intelligence, finance, legal, comms, HR, IT to improve performance, quality, efficiency. ■ Implementation science, research, evaluation -- Led teams to design & conduct literature reviews; due diligence, landscape, political economy, root cause, & stakeholder analyses; learning agendas, theories of change, MEL frameworks, & evaluability assessments; formative, performance, outcome, impact, & economic evaluations; cognitive, piloting; surveys, facility, & infrastructure mappings; monitoring; data quality reviews; qualitative interviews, & site visits. ■ Advanced analytics -- Conducted / led mixed methods, multisite, longitudinal data analyses, validation, synthesis. ■ Thought leadership -- Shared evidence & recommendations via dashboards, infographics, memos, briefs, reports, articles, webinars, podcasts, videos, book chapters, blogs.
  • Mathematica
    Director, Liberia Energy Evaluation
    Mathematica Mar 2017 - Apr 2023
    Princeton, New Jersey, Us
    ■ Lead the evaluation of MCC’s $257 million Compact (and donor partners >$1 billion investment) in expanding access to quality, low-cost, renewable energy (Mt Coffee Hydropower Plant), improving utility operations, and developing energy regulations.■ Project also includes regulatory policy analysis, workforce development and water pipeline evaluations. Ultimately the Government of Liberia (GoL) and donor partners aim to reduce poverty and catalyze economic growth and development. ■ Findings and recommendations for the implementation and rehabilitation of the hydropower plant; utility company management and operations; energy sector and regulatory agency; and impacts on households, businesses, and social services available in reports, briefs, and presentations online and below. https://mcc.icpsr.umich.edu/evaluations/index.php/catalog/231■ Data and recommendations were regularly shared and discussed with the Energy Sector Working Group comprised of the GoL Ministry of Energy and Finance, and a global group of donor partners (MCC, EU, EIB, JICA, KfW, NORAD, AfDB, EIB, WB, and the British, French, German, Irish, and Norwegian embassies.) ■ Presented an analysis of power theft, synthesizing ten years of utility data, a political economy analysis, asset and customer mapping data, and survey data. ■ The US Ambassador and Ambassadors from the UK, EU, and France used recommendations to apply political pressure for the GoL to fight sector corruption. ■ Consequently, the government, Liberian Electricity Company, and donors gained consensus on theft reduction strategies, improved customer billing and collections, and the GoL has stepped up power theft prosecutions for major offenders.
  • Mathematica
    Director, Washington State Covid-19 Contact Tracing Partnership
    Mathematica Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    Princeton, New Jersey, Us
    ■ When the world shut down in March 2020, I helped launch the Massachusetts Community Contact Tracing Collaborative (1st of its kind, thousands of staff)■ I rapidly transitioned to start up and lead the $37M Washington State Contact Tracing Partnership. We provided strategic counsel to the WA Department of Health, support to local health jurisdictions, case investigation, tracing & resource referral■ With partners, we recruited a diverse, community-based workforce of 700+ ■ We mobilized and led a high-quality, equity-focused, remote pandemic response. Staff were trained using learning (CANVAS) and communications platforms (MS Teams). We contacted cases using Twilio, a call/text system, entered data into a CRM database, & used Power BI for performance & quality control ■ Managed budget, invoices, human resources, data security, & legal risks■ Our team called COVID cases and contacts 10+ hours a day, 365 days a year during all stages of the pandemic, including WA’s Delta and Omicron surges. ■ Our team earned a reputation as trusted, compassionate, and staff-focused. We prioritized skill and leadership development, maximizing the contributions of all staff. ■ Our health impact: We reached 151,610 Covid-19 cases possibly preventing 1 million infections and 10,000 deaths. (Estimates based on a UK study). We helped connect Washingtonians to desperately needed food, medicine, housing, and mental health supports. ■ We provided meaningful, remote jobs during historic unemployment, building a workforce inclusive of racial, economic, geographical, age, and linguistic diversity, people with disabilities, and LGBQT staff. ■ We partnered with the WA Employment Security Department and WorkSource to implement a human-centered staffing reduction with a week of paid professional development■ By contract closure, 44% of staff said this project changed their career plans towards public health and human services. Many said it was the best job they ever had.
  • Mathematica
    Director, Fursa Kwa Watoto (Opportunities For Children) Learning Agenda & Evaluation
    Mathematica 2014 - 2019
    Princeton, New Jersey, Us
    ■ Led the FkW collaborative comprised of Aga Khan University, Children in Crossfire, CSR Africa, UNICEF, local partners, and funders to provide the Tanzania Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology and Teacher Training Colleges with an evidenced-based package of interventions to improve the quality of pre-primary education at scale and aligned with current education policy. ■ Combined implementation science, performance and impact evaluation, cost effectiveness methods, and quantitative analytics to strengthen program development and promote the integration of evidence into policy and practice. ■ Led our coalition to refine the theory of change, develop logic models and measurement indicators, and a monitoring and evaluation plan. ■ Project deliverables were uniquely communicated to facilitate the implementation of policy and program ideas and inform global efforts to implement effective, low-cost teacher training and education interventions.■ Recommendations were endorsed by the Ministry of Education Science and Technology and adopted by Tanzania’s teacher training colleges.
  • Mathematica
    Director, Evaluation, Malaria Elimination Initiative Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    Mathematica Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
    Princeton, New Jersey, Us
    ■ Led assessment and strategic advisory of the $38M initiative designed to facilitate malaria elimination in 35 countries across Southern Africa and Asia Pacific regions. Examined global, regional, and country efforts in China, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Swaziland. ■ Developed a theory of change focused on: -- Global Advocacy and Regional Initiatives: Assessed strategy and efforts to engage high-level policymakers and stakeholders to participate in the Malaria Elimination Group (MEG) and other elimination-focused meetings and developing country, regional, and global partnerships, such as with the WHO, the regional Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Initiative (APMEN), Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA), and Elimination Eight (E8). * Partnership Strategy -- Convening regional networks, forming an d convening MEG, promoting discourse among stakeholders at internatoinal meetings and conferences * Resource Mobilization - Advocating for funding, supporting country level financing, developing cost estimates, identifying new funding sources, supporting proposal writing * Research - Focused on Surveillance, hot populations, vector control, primaquine + * Operational support - Surveillance, diagnostics, treatment * Programmatic support activities - Technical assistance to help countries develop & use tools, trainings, & implementation methods■ Conducted budget and policy analysis and assessed contributions from bilateral donors and agencies, academic and UN organizations, global and regional implementers. ■ Synthesized cross-cutting data to identify persisting gaps and opportunities, provided action-oriented recommendations to help countries integrate efforts in health systems and obtain domestic financing, and developing the next generation of leaders.■ Project participants included GFATM, UN Secretary, WHO, MPAC, DFAT, DfiD, CDC, PMI, CHAI, PSI, RBM, Exxon, Novartis, academia *8, country stakeholders
  • The Heller School For Social Policy And Management At Brandeis University
    Adjunct Faculty
    The Heller School For Social Policy And Management At Brandeis University Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
    Waltham, Ma, Us
    ■ Taught graduate course to mid-career health sector professionals. ■ Strengthened students’ competencies in developing logic models, theories of change, stakeholder analyses, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks and designing outcome, impact, and economic evaluations.■ Student projects focused on evaluating real world interventions across health services, infectious and non-communicable diseases, surveillance, vaccine delivery, workforce development, and reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health programs and policies.■ Example of how I manage the course: https://bu.digication.com/IHMandE/Welcome/published
  • Boston University School Of Public Health
    Assistant Professor
    Boston University School Of Public Health Jun 2006 - Jul 2013
    Boston, Ma, Us
    ■ Business Development: Secured USAID, UNICEF, EU funding to build a social protection portfolio■ Teaching & Advising: Taught graduate courses on Monitoring and Evaluation (always oversubscribed) and Health and Human Rights; Advised masters & doctoral students■ Published: Journal articles, book chapters, briefs, public reports | Research appeared in Sunday New York Times, International Herald Tribune, CNN Inside Africa, Huffington Post, IRIN News, BU Today■ Service: Chaired doctoral committees; Elected Faculty Senator; Search Committees, Lead Evaluation & Data Working Groups■ Awards: Emerging Leader, Boston University Medical Campus, 2011■ Project Director / Principal Investigatoro Evaluation of Direct Women for Women International's $79 million Direct Cash Program targeted to women affected by war in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, & Nigeriao Evaluation of Yekokeb Berhan, Applied Research on Highly Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia, USAID. Led the national mixed-methods evaluation of USAID’s $92 million PEPFAR investment to support vulnerable childreno Assessment of the Karnataka Cash Transfer Program USAID: Designed and led each phase (policy development, targeting and delivery, impacts) of evaluation o Evaluation of Bomi Cash Transfer Pilot, UNICEF: Provided actionable recommendations to improve operations, management, and accountability; targeting transparency, equity, and effectiveness; and maximize impactso Evaluation of the Palestinian Cash Transfer Program, European Union; Impact evaluation of the $42 million CTPo Social Protection & Economic Growth in Malawi, USAID: Examined cash transfer impacts on economic development in and quantified multiplier effects. Video, Article published in Poverty and Public Policyo Evaluation of Mchinji Cash Transfer USAID, UNICEF: Generated evidence to inform the National Social Protection Policy, transfer expansion, and to build political will for transfers across Africa.
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health May 2005 - Jun 2006
    Boston, Massachusetts, Us
    The Project on Global Working Families (PGWF) is the first global program devoted to understanding and improving the relationship between working conditions and family health and well being. Dr. Jody Heymann founded the PGWF at Harvard before launching the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill. http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/press-releases/2006-releases/press02272006.html
  • Harvard University
    Researcher
    Harvard University Sep 2002 - May 2003
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us
    Kennedy School of Government. Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy. Conducted key informant interviews at nursing homes across Massachusetts to contribute to the Extended Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI) Round 2: Evaluation Report. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener
  • Harvard University
    Researcher
    Harvard University Jan 2002 - Dec 2002
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us
    Kennedy School of Government. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/ Provided research support for a range of human rights issues.
  • Edc (Education Development Center)
    Senior Technical Trainer
    Edc (Education Development Center) Jul 2000 - Oct 2001
    Waltham, Massachusetts, Us
    Trained college and community coalitions to change alcohol policies to support healthy student behaviors.
  • The George Washington University
    Manager, Alcohol And Other Drug Education
    The George Washington University Jun 1998 - Jun 2000
    Washington, D.C., Us
    Managed all alcohol and drug education; served on sexual assault crisis team; supported overall student affairs initiatives.
  • Peace Corps
    Volunteer
    Peace Corps Jul 1995 - Dec 1996
    Washington, District Of Columbia, Us
    District AIDS Coordinator, Nkhotakota District Hospital

Candace Miller Skills

Research Program Evaluation Global Health Literature Reviews Data Collection Capacity Building Data Analysis Reproductive Health Policy Analysis Community Outreach Qualitative Research Public Policy Stata Biostatistics Spss Statistics Proposal Writing Policy Research Design Health Policy Health Services Research Community Health Program Monitoring Multivariate Statistics Health Equity Social Statistics Mixed Methods Evaluation

Candace Miller Education Details

  • Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
    Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
    Public Health
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    Masters In Health Sciences
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Of Public Health
    Certificate In Health Communications
  • Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Political Science And Journalism

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