Melissa Chacko Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

● Coordinate day-to-day U.S. business operations for the International Social Impact department, a multi-faceted, multi-million dollar grant focused department. Ensures that the department meets finance and legal deadlines, complies with organization procedures and policies, and manages collaborative tasks with external departments.● Designed and executed the ISI department's first Professional Development strategy and managed ongoing professional development sessions informed by employee surveys. ● Oversee the vision and progress for the department’s decolonization work. Facilitated decolonizing aid focus group sessions, co-developed employee engagement projects to integrate decolonization principles, and co-created the first ISI Global Community of Practice for Decolonizing Aid, to integrate sustainable decolonizing aid practices in day-to-day work.

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

•Coordinated the day-to-day management of Washington D.C.-based global health advocacy roundtables focused on maternal and child health, global health security, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Assist with crafting meeting agendas, executing roundtable communications, and capturing meeting action items.•Provided operational support for advocacy meetings and events. Co-led the planning for and execution for Capitol Hill briefing and managed the preparation and execution for two World Health Assembly side events including coordinating speaker logistics, planning meetings, run of shows, and on-the-ground operations. Each side event had nearly 100 attendees present.•Liaised with federal agencies and GHC partners regarding advocacy strategies on Capitol Hill. Support GHC’s work on fiscal year appropriations for U.S. global health funding and advocacy communications. Assist with organizing and managing lobby days on Capitol Hill. •Composed blogs for organization on global health advocacy issues and draft advocacy updates for a bi-weekly newsletter disseminated to nearly 10,000 subscribers and 80,000 social media followers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Binghamton University

Under preceptor Dr. Titilayo OkororProject Title: Ebola Outbreak and African Diaspora:Perceptions and Experience of African Immigrants Living in the U.S.• Transcribed and coded focus groups on the Ebola outbreak and how it affected the perceptions and expectations of African immigrants living in the United States. American Public Health Association Poster Presentation (2015)Project Title: Knowledge and Awareness Level about Hepatitis-B in Rural Areas in Central Region of Ghana• Worked on the literature review, led data clean up and management, conducted data analysis for 200 coded surveys using SPSS. Project Title: Safe Spaces, Conducting a Health Fair at Islamic Organization Southern Tier Mosque • Created health fair surveys for the IOST Health Fair, did data management, and data analysis using SPSS. The purpose of the surveys was to see what were the successes and fallbacks to the health fair and if health fairs at the mosque should continue in the future.

Greater New York City Area

• Supported the Global Talent Team with staff recruitment; managed and edited human resources documents and policies; oversaw all logistics for staff development week, guest speakers, and set up. • Assisted in Global Health Corps Training Institute with logistical and administrative support at Yale University

Long Island City

• Worked within the Bureau of Immunization Surveillance Unit under preceptor Dr. Jennifer Rosen and conducted 30-50 one on one interviews with non-mumps parotitis patients for a research study on the possible correlation of influenza and non-mumps parotitis; conducted quantitative data analysis on interview questions to find trends among the participants interviewed; presented findings at the Bureau of Immunization Surveillance Unit Meeting.