Cathy Santos, Mph Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Supporting the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)

Atlanta, Georgia And Luanda, Angola

• Analyze and visualize quarterly PEPFAR indicator data for Angola in preparation for quarterly data review meetings with the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy
• Provide technical assistance and training to Angola implementing partners and Ministry of Health on data analysis and reporting to increase and sustain local strategic information capacity
• Conduct data quality improvement activities at the site and national level

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Provide oversight for data collection, analysis, reporting and overall improvements for ITF M&E Indicator monitoring
• Support implementation of M&E methods, techniques and tools in the DCIPHER data collection platform to provide the necessary support for COVID-19 response activities
• Advise and support the integration of data tools, collection and analyses into a common platform to improve data management and visualization used to guide programmatic decision-making and/or modifications as needed
• Recommend continuous improvements to metric design, implementation and QA of data collection, analysis and reporting
• Provide management and technical assistance for implementation, interpretation and writing of reports
• Provide management and technical assistance for Division POCs and CDC country offices as needed

New York, NY

• Manage research activities for a $4-million federally-funded, mixed-methods evaluation of physician behavior change interventions
• Develop evaluation strategy to help team determine evaluation questions, outcomes, data collection and analysis methodology
• Design and administer interviews and surveys, and analyze data for impact evaluation using RedCap and MAXQDA
• Improve the acceptability and adoption of physician behavior change interventions by periodically monitoring data and collaborating with interdisciplinary team to iterate interventions
• Develop project summaries and abstracts for funder and national conferences

New York, NY

• Collaborated with the Protection and Rule of Law team to digitize their paper-based data collection system using CommCare
• Compiled, visualized and presented data on 59 indicators for the 2017 Annual Report
• Designed surveys for refugee adults and children in English and French to capture refugee's perceptions of safety
• Developed a capacity assessment to identify M&E gaps and challenges

Greater New York City Area

Conducted literature review and edited paper for submission to the U.N. Secretary General on U.N accountability on U.N accountability and transparency

Zomba, Malawi

• Co-directed the research strategy and protocol for a quasi-experimental nutrition study to evaluate dietary outcomes among 300 Njira supported community members
• Designed, implemented and managed two large surveys to over 1,000 beneficiaries using the CommCare electronic survey platform with a team of 25 enumerators and 5 staff members
• Developed work and data quality improvement plans, and drafted standard operating procedures with staff for the roll out of 13 data collection tools in order to enhance the quality of the data collected
• Organized documentation of the progress made and target projections for 80 indicators to include in the Annual Report to USAID

Toronto, Canada Area

• Facilitated weekly group sessions with 10 community members to discuss how to partition food bank rations into healthy meals for the week
• Spearheaded a monthly newsletter that featured healthy recipe ideas from community members

Toronto, Canada Area

• Designed and implemented an original study to compare the effects of two clinical therapies on Alzheimer’s Disease pathology
• Authored a thesis and presented an oral defense of my final work to senior scientists, professors and students

Toronto, Canada Area

• Authored drafts of a literature review on the cognitive effects of a gastrointestinal hormone ondepression and Alzheimer’s Disease
• Presented a comprehensive summary matrix of my literature research to senior scientists

Oshakati, Namibia

• Spearheaded an exploratory research initiative to examine trends in patient lost to follow-up statuses
• Analyzed systematic shortcomings in HIV patient data collection using Epi Info and ePMS databases
• Strengthened HIV patient data collection practices leading to more robust data collection and patient follow-up procedures
• Organized 21,013 files in the clinic’s HIV patient ePMS database for duplicates, and inconsistencies between electronic and paper patient record copies in order to increase the accuracy of the ePMS database
• Co-authored a 50-paged report that included a literature review, described problem areas and provided recommendations for the clinic

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Sociomedical Sciences, Global Health

Focusing on research, data analysis and evaluation of health programs with an interest in global and local health systems work, violence.

Honours Bachelor Of Science, Neuroscience Major, Immunology & Physiology Minors