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Boston, Massachusetts

• Worked directly with the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia on the revision of the Essential Health services package• Managed the collection and analysis of the data, and developed a mathematical model to measure financial risk protection afforded by different Ethiopian health interventions• Conducted extended cost-effectiveness analyses to investigate health interventions in Ethiopia• Analyzed national household health surveys in Ethiopia to generate estimates of impoverishment caused by seeking care• Created a database for Out-of-Pocket costs of health services in multiple LMICs in Sub-Saharan Africa• Drafted concept notes and academic manuscripts

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed and supervised the work of the lab Data Scientist as well as junior team members• Managed project timeline and communications• Developed a database for the NIH-funded study using MySQL• Performed data entry, cleaning, merging and analysis• Held office trainings on data coding

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Performed data cleaning, management, and analysis for maternal, child and reproductive health project in Tibet using STATA • Managed and supervised the work of junior team member

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Carried out UCLA lactation room assessments on UCLA campus, and analyzed the results• Lead two focus groups with a total of 18 breastfeeding mothers on UCLA campus

• Taught and evaluated community health program planning, implementation and evaluation proposals for 13 graduate students• Managed the class outline, led weekly interactive discussions, and evaluated written assignments

Orange County, California Area

• Developed a Health Impact Analysis study for drowning prevention in Orange County• Reported findings and analysis of literature review in a white paper submitted to the Board of Supervisors for policy change for drowning prevention• Participated in County Ebola Preparedness/Response After Action Discussion meetings and learned cooperative interagency management in disasters

Department Of Chemistry And Biochemistry

• Taught and evaluated physical and general chemistry concepts as well as thermodynamics knowledge for a total of 90 undergraduate students per quarter through weekly discussion sessions, written assignments, exams and in-person advising.• Coordinated the tasks of 6 other Teaching Assistants for the course, as the “Head Teaching Assistant”, and managed the grades of a total of 640 students per quarter.

Beirut District, Lebanon

Completed a rotation on community based food and nutrition program: • Created a program in collaboration with the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health in a Primary Health Care center in Beirut to raise awareness on type 2 diabetes management. • Created surveys to assess knowledge and prevalence of diabetes risk factors among patients at the Primary Health Care center.• Implemented the program, and conducted formative and summative evaluations that revealed positive outcomes in knowledge and attitude change in participants.

Jnah, Beirut

Completed clinical rotations in internal medicine, general surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, intensive care, neonatal intensive care, pediatrics, cardiology, nephrology/dialysis, oncology, and pediatric oncology-hematology. • Designed patient educational handouts and provided nutrition education sessions. • Practiced nutritional clinical assessments, diagnosis, counseling, and delivered health education for a total of 250 patients in hospital wards. • Responded to physicians’ nutrition consult requests, and participated in weekly multi-disciplinary meetings.Completed Food service rotations in food safety, management, and food waste.• Practiced food service training in the biggest commercial kitchen in Lebanon serving 430 hospital beds.

Tripoli

Delivered awareness sessions on nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding for a total of 515 women from vulnerable Syrian families in refugee camps. Adapted the sessions to be culturally relevant to Syrian refugees, and instructed them on how to maximize their nutrition with their scarce resources, and communicated food safety concerns.

Beirut- Bliss

Master’S In Public Health, Community Health Sciences With A Specialization In Disaster Management And Emergency Preparedness

Activities and Societies: Public Health Nutrition Club Secretary, Creating Space

Bachelor’S Degree, Dietetics And Clinical Nutrition- Coordinated Program

Activities and Societies: - Public relations manager for the AUB nutrition society- September 2013-2014; Managed social media activity.