Engagement Officer
CurrentResponsible for stakeholder and partner outreach, engagement, and management for the Global Burden of Disease in West- and Central Africa as well as Europe as part of the IHME Global Engagement and Outreach team. Managing high level institutional partnerships with a wide range of intuitions, including The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the Robert Koch Institute, the Karolinska Institute and the Georgia National Center for Disease Control. Leading policy engagement and advocacy activities related to Local and Small Area Estimation. Responsible for fulfilment of deliverables related to increased stakeholder outreach, academic transparency, and bidirectional engagement. Working closely with high level faculty members to conduct external stakeholder evaluation of research related to education, under-5 mortality and sociodemographic index. Managing leadership engagement with external stakeholders and facilitating policy implementation of research results. Coordinated policy outreach on COVID-19 forecasts 2020-2022: conducted outreach with external stakeholders and partners both individually and in close collaboration with senior leadership, managed weekly internal high level leadership policy briefs and drafted external COVID-19 policy recommendations.