Sofia Alexandra Cortes, Mph Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provide technical, program management and operational support to the USAID funded Health Workforce Management (HWM) and Local Health Systems Sustainability (LHSS) projects covering various technical areas including.
• Lead writing of communication pieces including success stories, impact pieces, website updates, social media, and other external communication products
• Recruit highly qualified staff field-based employees and consultants
• Produce project deliverables including quarterly financial reports
• Review invoices and conduct monthly expenditure analyses of project budgets against expenditures
• Support monitoring of subcontracts and provide programmatic input for clearance of partner invoices along with ongoing financial management of partner expenses

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Collaborate with a headquarters team of three to manage the USAID-funded $19.2 Million Nigeria Health Workforce Management Activity focusing on Human Resources for Health (HRH)
• Collaborate with a headquarters team of three for the USAID funded, Abt Associates-led Local Health Sustainability Project (LHSS)
• Organize and track project pipelines to analyze project spending, report on overarching patterns and communicate potential areas for improvement
• Travel to the Nigeria field office to conduct staff trainings, file audits, and meet with local stakeholders
• Provide technical assistance the Colombia task-order which works to advance health access for migrants with an emphasis on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI)
• Draft USAID communications including technical approvals and waiver requests

Geneva, Switzerland

• Responsible for online platform montage
• Review of program materials, manage course content, and provide general technical support.
• Assist in the rollout and implementation of a training for 29 WHO Health Financing Country Assessment Experts in the WHO AFRO region
• Provide assistance to WHO technical staff as they navigate the Pan-American Health Organization Virtual Campus for Public Health website

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Provide assistance in the execution of a Social Marketing for Public Health Course with health officials enrolled through the PAHO Virtual Campus for Public Health.
• Assist public health professionals representing 16 countries as they develop social marketing interventions to address health risk behaviors in target populations.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Educated the public on pandemic control measures to cultivate a positive view of the health department
• Provided culturally appropriate and language accessible COVID-19 education for underrepresented groups
• Participated and led webinars to educate parents about COVID-19 school policies and prevention strategies
• Assisted with the initial rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and public health education efforts in the vaccination campaign
• Interviewed newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients and collected data on their symptoms and potential places of exposure
• Collaborated with epidemiologists to identify high-risk exposures and potential outbreaks

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisted with the planning and organization of the “Global Health and Human Rights” undergraduate course
• Aimed to place a social determinants of health lens on global health issues and current global determinants
• Promptly responded to student inquiries and concerns and assisted them as they transition to virtual education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Developed learning curriculum and educational material to familiarize country officials with national health policy
• Took a lead role in content creation for a course for workers in Panama’s Department of Health which required synthesizing large among of information and incorporating graphics for data visualization
• Evaluated the availability of health care supplies and personnel in Panama’s rural health centers
• Led focus group of indigenous women as they discussed primary health concerns and barriers to health care access
• Coordinated joint efforts by the Panama and DC teams to ensure cohesiveness of project developments

Panama

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supported the Global Health research portfolios in subjects such as Women's Health, HIV/AIDS, polio, and displaced populations.
• Generated extensive research briefs on global health issues diseases and health policies for CSIS publications.
• Wrote memos and summary notes to brief staff on a variety of reports, peer-reviewed journals, and news services.
• Provided logistical support to ensure that the Global Health Policy Center’s private and public events ran smoothly.

Greater San Diego Area

• Worked with 250 at-risk youth aged 13 to 24 to maximize their career and academic opportunities
• Coordinated a Girls Empowerment group serving refugee women and increased membership by 50 percent, ultimately, the successes seen in this program allowed IRC to win a $50,000 grant to increase the scope and reach of.
• Implemented socio-emotional learning techniques and recorded their effect on youth development and trauma recovery. The outcomes from this program were used for the development of a nation-wide IRC curriculum
• Simultaneously coordinated four programs aimed at addressing social justice issues for at-risk youth and refugees
• Planned and executed community events to welcome refugees and increase awareness about refugee issues

Chula Vista, CA

I led a team of seven canvassers in motivating discouraged voters in minority communities to vote. As a result of our efforts, the San Diego team not only met all canvassing goals but it surpassed the outreach results of all other California offices.

Chula Vista, CA

• Trained 10 canvassers on communication skills to educate citizens on issues relevant to the 2016 general election
• Surpassed goals for voter registrations resulting our team having the most voter registrations in the Organization
• Consistently surpassed the organization's goals for the number of voter registrations expected for a single canvasser per day by as much as four times

• Assisted staff with legislative research and drafted memorandums of hearings and briefings on education and health
• Advocate co-sponsor support to other Congressional offices
• Maintained constituent relations by ensuring that they received prompt responses to their concerns
• Developed a training manual that was used for all incoming intern classes

Relationship And Social Cognition Lab

• Collected data a cognitive psychology laboratory through experiments with human subjects while ensuring comfort and protecting confidentiality. The data was compiled in Qualtrics and Psychology RPP systems and construe.

Social And Non-verbal Behavior Lab

• Worked on laboratory research combining business and psychology principles to determine human preferences in potential male and female partners

Leconte Elementary School

• I collaborated with teachers and parents to develop personalized curriculums to help students develop their reading comprehension skills and maintain an appropriate academic level

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Global Health Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology And Social Welfare

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi (Psychology Honors Society), CalHabitat for Humanity Social Welfare Association for the Greater Good.

Social Psychology, Art History

Education Abroad Program