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New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Greater Boston Area

• Led planning and management of a new collaborative initiative to scale communication skills training for clinicians supporting patients with serious illness funded by the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation.• Worked across three leading serious illness care organizations, actively fostering a collaborative environment and a virtual team with all members of the program from the leadership level to all individual contributors.• Led the development of a new “one-door” online portal for serious illness communication training.• Managed $6 million program budget, coordinating the budgets across the three organizations.• Coordinated the work of approximately 12 staff across three different sites, including research, marketing, program, and clinical staff.• Provided strategic support for business and sustainability planning.• Developed the operational infrastructure required, and managed all operational aspects of the program as projects transition from development to implementation.

Greater Boston Area

• Provided program and technical guidance on curriculum development projects, including adapting the American Cancer Society Circle of Life Curriculum for online learning.

Boston, Ma

• Directed strategic planning, work planning, and budgets of all training activities at PIH Boston.• Managed four Training and Human-Centered Design Specialists in building health education materials, creating training/learning programs, and mentoring country staff in Haiti, Rwanda, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Navajo Nation in best practices and protocols. • Developed culturally appropriate modes of training to support the capacity building of community health workers and clinicians involved in PIH’s universal health coverage and health system strengthening work. • Built a knowledge management system and a curated hub for training materials developed across PIH sites. • Developed an innovative interprofessional training program to improve care delivery in the Navajo Nation.

Chennai Area, India

• Founder and Director of CARE³, the only Caregiver Support Network in India, which provided family level counseling, home visits, and care-plans to over 200 caregivers and families in Chennai. • Organized and facilitated bi-monthly open platform caregiver support group meetings across Chennai.• Published a resource directory, rated and curated by caregivers in the network, to support the management of long term care patients at home. • Designed and developed quarterly newsletters, outreach materials, the CARE³ website and Facebook page.• Built an organization entrenched in the community where: all meeting costs are born by the caregiver network, a speaker’s bureau of health care professionals volunteer their time, existing NGOs and businesses offer low cost space and services for caregivers that are part of the network.• Developed a downloadable toolkit to guide other caregivers who want to start a network in their city/region. • Integrated the CARE³ program and model with an established pan-India organization for Senior Citizens, ensuring program sustainability and scale-up.

Chennai Area, India

• Develop training curricula, documentation templates, and progress reports for the NACO (National AIDS Control Society) Centre of Excellence (CoE) Care, Support, and Treatment Program in India.

Chennai Area, India

• Developed concept note and guidelines on adapting the Indian national program on Centers of Excellence in HIV care and treatment for Zambia, to facilitate south-south sharing of implementation models.

Chennai Area, India

• Led the organization in the launch and ongoing management of a national level program to build the capacity of Centers of Excellence in HIV Care and Treatment by analyzing organizational capacity, developing program planning and management tools, revising staffing and reporting structure to maximize efficiency in light of changing budget needs, and developing knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation plans to ensure quality documentation and accountability.

New York, Ny

• Analyzed epidemiological trends in HIV transmission and developed classroom and field based curricula to train staff at community based organizations (CBOs) and government agencies in HIV prevention strategies.• Developed and carried out a strategic vision for the implementation of training activities around HIV prevention across all bureaus in the Department of Health through partnership building and gap analyses.• Developed the capacity of T-TAP to provide technical assistance to local HIV prevention services providers by building and maintaining relationships with CBOs and conducting quarterly assessments of training needs. • Developed a monitoring and evaluation system to collect training program data concerning sustained knowledge transfer, trainer effectiveness, and target populations reached.• Supervised team composed of four trainers and administrative staff to execute day to day T-TAP activities.

Antigua, Guatemala And New York, Ny

• Conducted field and desk research, using qualitative methodologies, to test/explore the most promising model(s) of programmatic and financial sustainability of the Nike Foundation’s Abriendo Oportunidades adolescent girls’ network program for indigenous girls in Guatemala. • Liaised with key figures across sectors (government, private, civil society) to advocate for the program and develop a feasible and collaborative action plan for the transition to local ownership of the program. • Presented findings to the Nike Foundation and other stakeholders (EngenderHealth, Population Council) to guide funding priorities/program expansion; as a result, an additional five years of funding was approved.

San Salvador, El Salvador And Amherst, Ma

• Responsible for US based development activities; led grant-writing efforts securing over $600,000 worth of funding from major donors such as USAID and the Motorola Foundation. • Responsible for all aspects of management and strategic planning of US operations, including leading the Board of Directors, creation of annual budgets and work plans, setting up/maintaining accounting systems.• Advised Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) clients, such as TACA Airlines, in the development of grant-making programs which aligned with their philanthropic goals and objectives.• Provided technical assistance in public health program development and implementation, including designing an underage drinking prevention program which utilized an ecological approach.

Chennai

• Spearheaded the development and implementation of a peer educator led “Living Positively with HIV" training program in conjunction with the CDC-GAP India program; helped integrate this program into state/national level training through advocacy and counsel at the state/national levels. • Led the Health Communications Team (HCT) in the development of classroom and field-based health education materials and training programs, including clinical/non-clinical training curricula and IEC materials. • Developed an HIV-focused public health curriculum for a HIV Clinical/Leadership Fellowship for physicians.• Managed communication with stakeholders, including donors, consultants, partners from affected communities, government, civil society, private sector. • Developed project plans, budgets, timelines, work plans for HCT staff, and monitored project activities in line with the approved budget.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Project manager for community based participatory evaluation projects; developed evaluation tools and implemented M&E plans; coordinated and lead community meetings with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Chennai Area, India

• Developed and implemented an ICT-based reproductive health education curriculum for girls.• Coordinated tsunami relief work in six coastal villages in Tamil Nadu, acting as a liaison between stakeholders, including affected communities, local governments, and other NGOs.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), International Health

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology