Mona Muhammad Email & Phone Number

Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

- Designing and implementing strategies to ensure that project-supported sites attain minimum MoH requirements and improved coverage and provision of quality TB diagnostics.- Conducting detailed audit of project-supported sites, preparing action-oriented work plans and development of innovative strategies that target identified gaps in TB service provision. - Organizing trainings, Continuous Professional development sessions, mentorships and support supervision towards quality improvement and dissemination of new guidelines, research evidences and new interventions.- Guiding facility teams to regularly report on TB activities through routine high-quality HMIS reports and activity reports in line with standard Ministry of Health, donor and project timelines.- Conducting data validation, data quality assessment as well as cleaning to ensure the availability of accurate information in DHIS2 to guide implementation of activities, monitoring and evaluation of project activities.- Guiding and supervising lab infrastructure refurbishments and management of efforts in all project-supported sites.- Designing and functionalizing systems to support district and facility teams to accurately quantify, forecast, order and manage laboratory supplies and commodities to ensure constant availability.- Organizing and scheduling hub coordination meetings and performance review meetings for supported districts in collaboration with NTLP, CPHL, MOH and NTRL- Promoting evidence-based planning, through data use, data analysis - Building capacity of teams to share best practices and foster cross-learning through Quality improvement workshops, mentorship - Implementation research to test out the best strategies to implement effective interventions- Strengthening Quality Assurance efforts - Supporting sample courier services to ensure uninterrupted Specimen transport network

Kampala, Uganda

-Development and implementation of Laboratory Quality Management systems-Biosafety and Biorisk management through development of safety manual, SOPs and ensuring good clinical laboratory practices -Routine laboratory diagnosis to support HIV/STD Prevention, treatment and management among most at risk populations -Maintenance of a Laboratory supply chain management system -Mentorship and support of multi professional Outreach teams to support extension of HIV services to most at risk populations -Continuous Quality improvement -Conducting Laboratory backed surveillance ( Gonococcal, syphillis,AMR, HIV and TB)-Compilation of reports to monitor laboratory performance and evaluate interventions - Participating in External quality assurance- HIV,STD and AMR research among most at risk populations - coordination and dissipation of patient results from reference laboratories - sample processing, analysis and archival

Hoima, Uganda

-Conducted integrated support supervision and mentorship in partnership with other stakeholders to standardize HIV and TB laboratory diagnosis in midwestern region - supported 40 health facilities in Hoima and Buliisa to provide HIV, STD, EID, Malaria and microbiology services - participated in Laboratory systems strengthening - Planned, budgeted and co-ordinated hub coordination meetings to review regional performance - Ensured the laboratories participated in EQA and QC- compiled, analyzed and disseminated laboratory reports to monitor regional lab performance- Developed strategies to improve laboratory performance - Ensured a consistent sample referral system, developed schedules and monitored hub riders - Tracked laboratory indicators - Redistributed supplies invades if stock out of supplies - supported facilities in development of SOPs and implementation of laboratory quality management systems - conducted trainings for community based organizations and HIV testers to standardize HIV service provision- conducted rollout of HIV and TB guidelines

Kampala

-conducted baseline assessments for IDI supported health facilities in Kampala - Reviewed SOPs for KCCA health facility laboratories - Compiled laboratory reports - Accomplished roles delegated by the laboratory specialist -Carried out stock counts- Conducted sample processing and analysis for serology, microbiology, immunology, hematology and clinical chemistry at different KCCA sites- Attended trainings

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Disease surveillance, Disease control, Research methods, Health policy, interventional epidemiology, sexual.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biomedical Laboratory Technology, Second Class Upper Division

Laboratory science, microbiology, immunology, physiology, clinical chemistry, parasitology, haematology, anatomy, quality assurance.