Matthew Macfarlane, Mph Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

This increased role adds new responsibilities around managing organization-wide integration of Qualtrics into IT systems and training new staff on the processes previously developed while continuing to upgrade and innovate on new approaches for web- and SMS-based data collection. It also includes a new appointment working as the operations lead on a.

Greater New York City Area

Originated a new role within MDRC focused on managing web- and SMS-based data collection efforts. This required creating new research-focused processes and guidelines to lead programming, administration, and all technical aspects of surveying through Qualtrics within the organization. I worked with more than 100 different project teams to survey families.

New York, United States

Created a published report synthesizing findings from separate evaluations of child marriage in humanitarian settings, including writing, referencing, and managing input from reviewers. Separately developed a two-page summary synthesis report for at-a-glance review of the findings from the evaluations aimed at lay audiences in the international development.

Greater New York City Area

Coordinated a large, NIH-funded, study to develop and validate a tool for identifying core structures and processes at primary care practices in the United States that are related to high performance on key health outcomes. Activities included general oversight and day-to-day management of the project and collaboration with partners as well as contributing.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Developed a lay-oriented evidence brief, including the creation of figures, for the Trickle Up cash transfer and coaching program by synthesizing research data and results from numerous studies.

Working with the ICT4D and Digital Health teams, this cross-sectoral position included work on a number of different projects. Primarily, I gathered information on mHealth activities for World Vision globally to write and produce the mHealth Global report. This document gave an overview of mHealth work and focused in detail on several different monitoring.

Greater New York City Area

Based at Columbia University, this position entailed management of a variety of projects, with a particular focus on measuring separation of children in emergencies. A suite of three interconnected approaches, the goal of this research was to develop a tool to equip organizations to better react to chronic and rapid-onset emergencies by giving them the.

Liberia, Ghana, And Sierra Leone

During my time with Innovations for Poverty Action, I had the unique experience of working for three different country offices on a wide variety of projects. The Ebola crisis in Liberia and Sierra Leone altered my original position in rural Liberia and led me to the role of Acting Research Manager in the company's Ghana office while maintaining projects in.

Sierra Leone

This project was a midline evaluation for an ongoing teenage pregnancy reduction program in 12 villages in rural Sierra Leone run by Columbia University. I acted as the methodology lead in the process of transferring a previously paper-based study to mobile data collection, while also training and leading a team of Sierra Leonean researchers to perform.

Jakarta, Indonesia

The Legal Identity Project through the University of Indonesia focused on the low level of official registration in the Indonesian population, and the barriers therein. Working with a multicultural team over the course of several months, we performed quantitative data collection in 3 Indonesian provinces, visiting the households of 2000 children. As a.

For the 2012-2013 school year at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, I acted as Head Teaching Assistant for a graduate-level class entitled Science, Evidence, and Public Policy. I also had weekly sessions for the Globalization & Global Health and Leadership & Innovation classes, working with a group of 25 students over the course of a.

The Rural Senegal Mobile Health project was geared towards evaluating the feasibility, level of acceptance, and possible applications of mobile phones among field staff in the Senegalese National Malaria Control Program. Working in a rural part of the country entirely in French, I was responsible for overseeing the data collection aspects of the study and.

Master Of Public Health (M.P.H.), Epidemiology

Broad education in Epidemiology and other Public Health areas, with a focus on statistical methods of analysis using SAS and quantitative.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.) With Honours, Zoology/Animal Biology

A Bachelors of Science degree in Zoology with a focus on parasitic disease and the interaction between the natural world and human health.