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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Lead PHR’s capacity development initiatives, focusing on the documentation of human rights abuses such as torture, conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), and attacks on health care.
• Drives the organization’s use of innovative research methodologies, monitoring. evaluation, and learning efforts, and integrates public health approaches into PHR’s work.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Oversee a $2 million multi-country advocacy, capacity development, research, and innovation program to fight impunity for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)in DRC, Kenya, Iraq, CAR, and Myanmar. Responsibilities.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team to co-design, develop and pilot innovative human rights-driven tools to address CRSV, including MediCapt, an Android app for healthcare workers safely and securely collect forensic medical.
• Lead methodologically rigorous research projects on conflict related sexual violence for use by international mechanisms to hold perpetrators accountable.
• Conceptualize and write program strategies for successful resource mobilization to donors.

Greater Boston Area

• Lead rights-based survivor-centered training program to increase local capacity to document forensic evidence of mass crimes of sexual and gender-based violence for doctors, nurses, community health workers, lab.
• Recruited and directed a pool of expert trainers, to conduct in-person trainings, webinars, and mentorship of medical, legal, and law enforcement professionals, including specialized training on forensic examination of.
• Conceptualized and execute institutional capacity development initiative to assess and pilot strategies to improve post-rape care services at public healthcare institutions in partnerships with national, county-level.
• Represent the organization at donor meetings and high-level technical collaborations with local and regional organizations engaging in medical treatment, legal service provision, human rights reporting, and advocacy.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed the curriculum development process for introductory, advanced, and training of trainer curriculums to train first responders on forensic documentation of sexual violence in challenging conflict settings.
• Developed multimedia training support resources, including multilingual training videos and created practical post-training reference materials.
• Oversaw and managed programmatic monitoring and evaluation efforts, including logical framework, indicator development, deployment of SMS-based training follow-up surveys, development of pre- and post-training.

Greater Boston Area

• Manage bilateral health projects in Ethiopia, Liberia, Senegal, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Russia. Serve as focal point for communications between field office, donors, partners, and other relevant stakeholders..
• Coordinate, write and edit grant proposals to donors, over 40 proposals to date. Develop proposal elements including, budgets, international recruitment, technical proposals.
• Provide support to diverse technical areas, including: qualitative data methods (research, evaluation and training), HIV and AIDS programming in key affected populations and, sexual and gender-based violence.

Ituri, North Kivu, And South Kivu, Democratic Republic Of Congo

• Taught a week-long training course on research ethics and qualitative research.
• Coordinated and implemented a study using Photovoice and Community/ Body Mapping methodologies to examine programmatic challenges to reintegration of former child soldiers across 6 sites in 3 provinces across Eastern DRC
• Conducted field training on research ethics and protocol and administered the collection of quantitative surveys concerning stigmatization of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

Idjwi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic Of Congo / Boston, MA, USA

• Designed and conducted a qualitative study of sexual and gender-based violence with survivors of intimate partner violence as part of a student-led project at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
• Taught detailed month-long training course to local research team of 50 interviewers and field supervisors.
• Managed the successful administration of 2100 questionnaires, following international guidelines, as well as focus group discussions, in-depth interviews and ethnographic data collection and analysis in a resource-poor.

Mombasa, Kenya

Mombasa, Kenya

• Provided support for qualitative study of the health related rights of commercial sex workers, including study design, data collection, and analysis.
• Developed and guided focus group discussions and key informant interviews with sex workers and law enforcement to understand violence against sex workers committed by police personnel.
• Participated in advocacy to support efforts to decriminalize and legalize sex work in Kenya.
• Drafted donor reports, funding proposals, and needs assessments.

Camden, New Jersey, USA

• Provided intensive case management to clients to help access health care, food security, and safe housing.
• Worked closely with undocumented immigrants, victims of gun violence, people who use drugs, and underemployed individuals to secure appropriate housing to prevent homelessness.
• Managed a federally-funded homelessness prevention grant of $100,000.

Tbilisi, Georgia

• Helped plan, execute and analyze an epidemiological study of cardiac disease and dysfunction.
• Collected qualitative data and conducted a field analysis of perceptions of medical trust at Tbilisi’s Emergency Cardiology Center.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Global Health And Population

Activities and Societies: HSPH QSAThesis: “Every Home Has Its Secrets”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Intimate Partner Violence, Women’s.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Health And Society; African Studies

Thesis: "Cold Fevers": An Ethnographic Study of Malaria in Maasai Communities in Rift Valley Province, Kenya