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Serbia

United Kingdom

Senior Lecturer in Public Health Studies

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Contributes to the development and advises on the annual and multiannual work program;• Validates the annual activity report;• Deliberates on the budget proposals of the Observatory;• Deliberates on contracts and public procurement for an amount greater than75,000€ or for a duration of more than two years;• Deliberates on requests for human and technical resources from the Observatory;• Provides methodological advice and support;• Contributes to the identification of sources and facilitates access to these;• Contributes to the build up of effective partnerships;• Conducts critical reviews of reports and publications.

Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Supervision of PhD students

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Member of the Graduate School Board• Member of the Learning and Teaching Panel• Member of the Researcher Enhancement and Development team• Coordinator of PhD programme at the Institute for Global Health and Development• Coordinator of Global Public Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Research Development and Proposal Writing modules• Lecturer in Global Health and Social Policy, Researching Global Health and Development, Learning Methodologies and Independent Study• Research in global health and development• Supervision of MSc (9 students) and PhD students (3 candidates)• Examination boards (2 PhD candidates)• Student admission tutor• 1 PhD thesis awarded, 7 MSc dissertations defended, 2 independent studies completed• 17 research papers published• Research projects: i) Designing and Evaluating Provider Results-Based Financing for Tuberculosis Care in Georgia: Understanding Costs, Mechanisms of Effect and Impact, Medical Research Council / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom / Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwer, Beligum / Curacio International Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia; ii) Increasing Capacity in Research in Eastern Europe (ICREATE), NIH / University of Iowa, USA, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; iii) Implement and Evaluate Interventions Contributing to Strengthen Adherence to TB Treatment in Pilot Site – Latvia, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control / University of Latvia / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom / Riga University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Geneva, Switzerland

• Reviewing funding requests: assesses the strategic focus, technical soundness and potential for impact of funding requests in accordance with the Global Fund Strategy and any subsequent guidance from the Board. Evaluation of and recommendations on: investing in new technologies and innovative approaches, ensuring effectiveness of programme design and implementation strategies, sustainability and achieving the greatest impact.• Providing advisory input to the Board: The TRP serves as an advisory body to the Board; its Chair is a non-voting member of the Board’s Strategy Committee and reports on the TRP’s work and membership matters while also supporting the Strategy Committee’s deliberations. The TRP also provides critical input to the Global Fund’s strategy and policy development process.• Reporting on lessons learned: While independent in their review process, the TRP engages closely with the Secretariat and other technical partners to ensure the Global Fund’s mission and goals are achieved. The TRP communicates lessons learned for applicants periodically to ensure Global Fund investments are increasingly effective.• Collaboration with technical partners as well as constructive dialogue and effective engagement with the Secretariat, are critical to the successful technical and advisory functions of the TRP.

Czestochowa, Silesian District, Poland

London, United Kingdom

Bratislava, Slovakia

Luxembourg

• Overall Medical Department coordinator with regard to guiding global policy and strategic aspects of operational research• Member of the MSF-Luxembourg management team as LuxOR director• Management and support to the human resources of LuxOR in Brussels and Luxembourg• Organisation of the global strategic orientation and coordination between different sectors ad individuals working within dynamic and diverse portfolio of operational research and related medical data collection/analysis needed for the research• Coordination the capacity building activities• Organisation of Operational Research Day• Organisation and conceptualisation of strategic retreats

Serbia

Publishing, writing, comic book script writing

Serbia

Project management, international collaboration

Novi Sad

• Curriculum design and teaching (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, special education and rehabilitation: epidemiology, public health, introduction to research methodology, nursing in emergencies, communicable disease epidemiology, non-communicable diseases epidemiology, research methodology, principles of public health.• Training in: arbovirus infection, health communication skills,, modern aspects of hepatitis B and C, modern epidemiological methods, voluntary counselling and testing, modern communicable disease surveillance, professional exposures to bloodborne infections, epidemiology of HIV infection, surveillance system for professional exposures.3 PhD theses, 1 MSc dissertation, 1 epidemiology specialisation, 12 undergraduate papers defended;43 research papers published.Research projects: i) Mental health service delivery to older people in four countries from the Central -East Europe region, NIH / University of California, Berkeley; ii) Improve the Mental Health Referral System in Oncology Care (IMeRS), NIH/University of California, Berkeley; iii) Informal Work-Related Injuries in Backi Petrovac Municipality, Serbia; WHO Geneva / Monash University Melbourne, Australia / University of Melbourne, Australia; iv) Causes of Under-Diagnosis of Depression in South-Eastern European Countries; NIH / University of California, Berkeley; v) General Hospital Emergency Departments and Mental Health Clients, NIH / University of California, Berkeley; vi) Mental Illness stigma in South Eastern Europe, NIH / University of California, Berkeley; vii) Evaluation of Blood Borne Infections in Central and Eastern European Hospitals, NIH / University of Iowa; viii) Professional Exposures to Blood Borne Infections among Health Care Workers in AP Vojvodina, NIH / University of Iowa; ix) Training of Health Care Workers in HIV and Hepatitis Prevention, NIH / University of Iowa; x) Development of Road Traffic Injuries Surveillance System (2006), NIH / University of Iowa, USA.

Novi Sad

• Design, management and monitoring and evaluation of HIV, hepatitis, STI and TB surveillance, including data collection and databases• Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of preventative programmes• Management of an NGO network (Vojvodinian HIV Network) and collaboration with NGOs and decision-makers• Collaboration with MoH, provincial authorities, local self-administration, humanitarian organisations, schools, professional associations, hospitals, healthcare institutions, private practice, companies, NGOs• Development of strategies, policies and legislation• Outbreak investigation and control• Pandemic preparedness and response• Regular field visits and supervision of disease surveillance and reporting, immunisation coverage, cold chain and infection control practices• Management of HIV and hepatitis laboratory• Editor-in Chief of Vojvodinian Epidemiological Monthly (2003-2008)• Training in surveillance, voluntary counselling and testing, prevention and control of professional exposure to blood borne infections, immunisation and infection control• Supervision of laboratory procurement and donations• Board of Ethics, chairman• Committee for Security on Work• Committee for Donations• Team for Project Development• 65 technical (annual surveillance) reports developed, plus many periodical reports• Projects: i) Psychosocial Support to People Living with HIV in Novi Sad, Regio Emilia Romagna, Italy, ii) HIV prevention in Novi Sad, City of Novi Sad; iii) Support to hard-to- reach populations in Novi Sad, City of Novi Sad; iv) Prevention of Mother-to-Child transmission, UNICEF, v) Establishing monitoring and evaluation system of the national HIV response in Serbia, UNAIDS, vi) Knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers in Serbia about HIV, The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (project in Serbia) / Economic Institute, vii) Early warning and response system for detection of outbreaks, World Health Organisation.

General medicineDisease prevention in the community

Pg-Cert, Professional And Higher Education

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Public Health

Activities and Societies: Research sectionStudent research

Epidemiologist, Epidemiology

Activities and Societies: Section of Epidemiologist, Society of Vojvodinian DoctorsDisease prevention and control, surveillance.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Public Health

Neurophysiology, Reaction time

Doctor Of Medicine (Md), Medicine