Philip Setel Email & Phone Number

New York/Seattle

• Lead major component at implementing partner in $100m technical assistance initiative to improve Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in partnership with more than 20 low- and middle-income countries.
• Negotiate and manage collaborative relationships with other global and regional actors in CRVS improvement, including the World Bank and World Health Organization.
• Direct and manage over 50 staff and consultants to support country implementation of agreed work plans.
• Significant interaction with donor on alignment with donor priorities, progress, results, and overall program direction.

• Led, implemented and supported monitoring, learning, and evaluation projects for clients in non-profit, development assistance, and philanthropic sectors.
• Provided facilitation and group decision-making services with a focus on aligning strategic vision, measures of feasible program implementation, use of monitoring and evaluation data for accountability, learning and.
• Clients included Bloomberg Philanthropies; Hewlett Foundation; University of California, San Francisco; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; US Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; and UNICEF.

• Advised program officers managing grants in burden of disease, mortality, and cause of death measurement.
• Led data access initiative for institutional transparency and to promote wider use of Foundation-funded research and evaluation across three divisions and hundreds of grants producing data of scientific and public.
• Directed creation of $3 million online system enabling more than 1,000 foundation staff easy access to statistics relevant to foundation work.

Greater Seattle Area

• Recruited and directed five-person measurement, learning, and evaluation unit within the foundation’s Global Health Program’s Strategy Team.
• Provided technical assistance in measurement to eight foundation strategies, initiatives, and major funding recipients with focus on global health, including nutrition, maternal and neonatal child health, family.
• Led integration of measurement, learning and evaluation, and strategy into program-related business processes.
• Program Officer for $180 million portfolio of grants and contracts in health metrics and evaluation, including Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington; the Disease Control Priorities.
• Technical backstopping for measurement, learning and evaluation work in $200m Nutrition Strategy and $120m Integrated Family Health Initiative in Bihar State, India.

• Technical leadership, direction, and management of $70 million USAID cooperative agreement with over 100 staff at UNC and four implementing partners, including 15 field offices
• Primary responsibility for facilitating project achievements in Data Demand and Information Utilization; Technical Coordination and Collaborations
• Technical oversight for portfolios in South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Viet Nam, and the Caribbean Region; Data Demand and Information Utilization; targeted evaluation of palliative care for HIV care; measurement.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

• Directed largest demographic surveillance system in Africa, involving 15 full-time, and more than 100 part-time staff, covering population of over 400,000
• Responsible for overall financial management and budgeting
• Senior Investigator and leader of £5.75 million project award for Policy Implications of Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project Phase 2: Evidence-Based Equitable Health Care, UK Department for International Development
• Led production of outputs used by the Ministry of Health and National Poverty Monitoring Program in: monitoring health sector performance; progress toward Poverty Reduction Strategy goals; design of National Essential.

Phd, Anthropology, With Distinction

PhD student in medical anthropology focusing on African area studies, HIV/AIDS, gender, fertility, and demographic and health transitions

Ba, Anthropology/Sociology, Magna Cum Laude, Highest Departmental Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Honors student in Sociology/Anthropolgy