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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Projects involved:- Healthy Lives Malawi- The interaction between reproductive careers and multimorbidity in women age 15-49 years.

Nairobi, Kenya

Projects involved: • Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS), 2017 – 2020• Re-design of the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS), 2020 – Present• Implementation Network for Sharing Population Information from Research Entities (INSPIRE) , 2020 – PresentDuties and Achievements:• Project Management: Coordinate project activities (monitoring field work, data quality control activities, community mobilization), develop, update and review questionnaires and other tools for data collection and processing, application for ethical review, recruit and train data collectors, procure resources for field staff, set performance objectives for field coordinator, field supervisor and team leaders and conduct bi-annual performance review, conduct sit-in interviews, participate in community advisory committee (CAC) meetings, foster productive, synergistic and collaborative work environment, dissemination of findings to community and stakeholders.• Business Development: conceptualizing project design, preparing protocols and logic models, drafting funding proposals.

Nairobi, Kenya

Projects involved: • Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy (STEP UP), 2016, 2017• MEASURE Evaluation: OVC MER Outcome Monitoring in Kenya, 2016• Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS), 2015-Present• Millennium Villages Project, 2015• Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K), 2015, 2017• Gates – Urban Health Project, 2012-2014• The Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm), 2012• Measurement, Learning and Evaluation Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative and National Coordinating Agency for Population and Development, 2011• The Health Promoting Schools Project, 2010• Verbal Autopsy (VA) Studies for Cause of Death Ascertainment in the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS), 2009-Present• Safety and Wellbeing Project, 2009• Urbanization, Poverty and Health Dynamics I, 2009-2010• Partnership for a Healthy Nairobi, 2009Duties and Achievements:• Project Management: Review data collection tools and manuals, training data collectors, monitoring data collection and quality assurance, dissemination of findings to community and stakeholders• Data Management: Data cleaning and data consistency checks, data documentation and creating analytical datasets for large household survey data, longitudinal data, poverty data and cross-sectional data• Data Validation: Determination of errors in survey data that has been cleaned and prepared for analysis. This includes data that is missing, duplicated, out of range, invalid or nonsensical• Data Analysis: Execute statistical analyses using STATA to generate periodic indicators (ratios, proportions and rates) and to produce descriptive estimates using primary and secondary data• Scientific Writing: Reviewing literature and writing reports and journal articles

Recruiting and training new associates, performing financial needs analyses for clients, providing clients with financial game plans on follow-up, provided clients with term life insurance, and auto and home insurance, refinanced compound home mortgages into simple interest mortgages, consolidated unsecured debt into secured loans, enrolled clients in affordable legal protection program

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties & Achievements: • Developed new extraction method for separating pesticides and pesticide metabolite mixtures from various environmental media to ensure cleaner quantification and qualification of pesticide residues• Conducted extensive literature review of existing extraction methods, including their pros and cons, and pesticide toxicity, use and regulation, and chemistry

Greater Atlanta Area

Duties and Achievements:• Data Management: Obtained, concatenated, and refined ecological data from 74 counties in Georgia and Florida to create a database to determine correlation between changes in climate conditions and Vibrio cholera incidence and generated data quality indicators• Data Analysis: Analyzed 119,000 records obtained from hospital data for ongoing studies to examine determinants of gastro-intestinal infection diagnosis

Phd, Global Health

The interaction between reproductive careers and multimorbidity among women age 15-49 years

Mph, Biostatistics, Environmental & Occupational Health

Activities and Societies: n/a Thesis: Examination of the effectiveness of cold extraction as a separation technique for pesticide extraction

Pre-Clinical Medicine

Activities and Societies: n/a • Assisted Family Medicine physicians by obtaining patient histories, performing medical examinations.

Chemistry, Spanish, Chemistry, Spanish, Latin

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Honour Society, Dean’s List (all terms) POLYED Organic Chemistry Award for outstanding.

Spanish Language & Culture

Activities and Societies: n/a Learnt the flamenco and excelled at Spanish history, language, and art history.

A-Level, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology

Activities and Societies: Highest score on worldwide standardized Calculus exam administered by University of Cambridge in 1996.

O-Level, Kenya Certificate Of Secondary School, 12

Activities and Societies: Playing drums and kayambas in church and in the Drama club http://www.preciousbloodriruta.com/content.php?pid=1