Michelle Batchelor Email and Phone Number

• Provide senior and strategic leadership for the NASTAD global program, including management and oversight for the ~$20 million, multi-country technical assistance and capacity building portfolio, with a specific focus on social justice and gender equity.• Responsible for the development and implementation of the global policy and advocacy strategy, which includes legislative and appropriations priorities.• Lead the organization’s global program business development and fundraising activities, ~$840,000 raised in the last two years.• Guide and implement the monitoring and evaluation plan NASTAD and the global program.• Represent NASTAD at U.S. and international meetings and conferences.• Provide management, leadership and guidance for over 40 staff and contractors that support the NASTAD global program in the U.S. and abroad.

• Developed and managed a national Reproductive Justice strategy to proactively advocate for policies and programs that improve access to reproductive health services.• Represented the program on national coordinating counsels and collaborations to ensure inclusion and representation of underserved communities in policy and program decisions.• Wrote policy reports, testimony and briefing data on reproductive health, rights and justice issues for distribution to national and state media outlets, advocacy groups and legislators. • Developed policy critiques, grassroots action alerts, talking points, and other materials for Reproductive Justice activists.

• Lead manager working with the CDC, and partner-countries, to strengthen host-country capacity to develop, lead and manage PEPFAR funded health programs and systems; in Uganda and Mozambique.• Managed the development and coordination of the Applied Public Health Program Management program for global Ministry of Health professionals, in Botswana, Mozambique and Guyana.• Facilitated and coordinated strategic, evidence-based planning processes in multiple countries.• Led NASTAD’s portfolios focused on Black women, youth and faith-based community engagement.

HIV Evaluation Specialist-Division of STD/HIV/AIDS Public Policy and Programs (2003 - 2008)Public Health Administrator-Division of Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health (2001 – 2003)Clinical Case Manager-Division of Mental Health Urban System of Care (1999 – 2001)• Established and managed the Illinois Women of African Descent Coalition; developed advocacy and program priorities and agenda for the state of Illinois.• Interpreted federal, state and local public health policy for state and local community partners to ensure understanding and integration into program activities.• Supervised the implementation of the CDC web-based client level data collection system for CDPH HIV Prevention clinics and community grantees.• Established program assessment structure and managed quality assurance activities for CDPH HIV prevention programs and community-based organizations.