Ely Mcelwee Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Leading team to complete supply chain cost-effectiveness evaluation using couple-years protection (CYP) and stock availability as outcomes• Supported design and implementation of the costing component of a multidisciplinary impact evaluation for a medical supply chain in Senegal

Senegal And London

• Conducted 2 months of field research in Senegal as coordinator of data collection team• Liaised between Senegal-based costing team and London-based qualitative and quantitative team leads.• Conducted literature reviews, including grey literature, on costing studies and private-public partnerships in low income countries• Created protocol and piloted tools for collecting, entering and analyzing cost data in Excel in collaboration with Senegalese colleagues• Piloted data collection tools for time costs related to health workers on-site in Senegal.• Wrote up research for (or Contributed to) publications and conference presentations• Collaborated with team to report on deliverables for funders, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Merck for Mothers

Arlington, Va

Program Manager• Supervised Resident Services Team providing multilingual programs for over 500 households from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, including immigrants from 21 countries• Generated and managed annual budget for Resident Services Department• Created monitoring and evaluation protocols for reporting program outcomes to funders and the board of directors• Established and continuously assessed programmatic priorities in accordance with residents’ expressed needs and donor guidelinesProgram Coordinator 07/2011-11/2013• Executed three large scale annual community health fairs providing improved health access, especially reproductive health, for more than 300 low-income individuals• Promoted to Program Manager based on proven performance and demonstrated interpersonal, organizational and programmatic skills• Managed the rapid growth of Resident Services department from serving 200 households to serving over 500 households within 2 years• Integrated family planning and reproductive health education into financial planning, parenting and nutrition classes.

Nicaragua

• Solicited and managed USAID-funded capacity building grant of $2000 to implement 2-day training for 56 community health educators on family planning, HIV prevention, prenatal care, maternal health and prevention of common diseases• Provided community doctors, nurses and teachers with on-going technical assistance on the design, implementation and evaluation of family planning programs• Collaborated with counterpart to revamp, expand and direct community adolescent program including 12 youth groups that integrated health education, reproductive health, HIV prevention, gender issues while identifying and improving life skills • Synthesized training materials to create and conduct annual capacity building program for local teachers on best practices in reproductive and sexual health education• Organized events for a 3-day All Volunteer Capacity Building Conference attended by 200+ volunteers with guest speakers and technical workshops • Organized and tracked budget for 2 PEPFAR-funded, week-long youth leadership camps focused on reproductive health

Msc Public Health, Health Economics

• Thesis: Time and Motion Study on Stockist Time Use in Integrating a New Family Planning Supply Chain Intervention in Senegal • Health.

Ba, Sociology

• Honors: magna cum laude, Connelly-Delouvrier International Scholarship and Villanova Scholarship • Leadership: Omicron Delta Kappa.