Robert Patterson Email & Phone Number

Maryland, United States

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Ongoing marketing for new clients with management, global health, international development, technical, and business development scopes of work. Providing high-level, expert writing and editing services to clients.
• Recent 6-month contract with the MD Department of Health fighting COVID-19 and advancing primary healthcare statewide.
• Assisting the start-up and business development of a small business consulting firm, Endless Development Solutions Consulting (EDSC), LLC, focused on global health, education, finance, governance, and monitoring and.
• Translating French-English technical, scientific, and research documents in all disciplines.
• Led development and submission of two global health proposals to USAID for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo totaling US$70 million. Responsible for all aspects of proposal development including key personnel.

• Supervised a team of senior technical advisors to improve health, agriculture, water and sanitation, program performance, and new business in 12 countries
• Reviewed and approved all new business proposals over $100,000 up to $20 million
• Provided senior leadership over all regional program quality matters

• Supervised Country Directors, staff, programs and budgets in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
• Managed the water, sanitation and hygiene program portfolio in 15 countries
• Helped improved program operations and performance in all program countries
• Improved damaged relations with a major donor, preventing their termination of funding support
• Troubleshot international contract compliance and partner relationship challenges
• Prevented significant financial loss caused by incorrect staff billing to a client

• Led development and writing of a 6-year Nigeria National Tuberculosis & Leprosy Strategic Plan
• Led finalization of Nigeria’s National Strategic Health Development Plan 2010-15
• Recommended strategies to strengthen Cote d’Ivoire’s health system through decentralization, capacity building, and improved operational systems and procedures

• Helped supervise and improve national HIV/AIDS prevention & control projects in Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, the Caribbean, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyz Republic
• Improved national health system operations and results in Moldova, Romania, and Uzbekistan
• Recommended structural and operational changes to improve the management and coordination of Congo’s national program against HIV/AIDS
• Co-designed the management component of the $40 million Republic of Congo Health Sector Support Project
• Led production of the 3rd edition of the World Bank Results Secretariat Sourcebook on Emerging Good Practice on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) presenting international case studies of leadership

Greater New York City Area

• Recommended steps to improve HIV/AIDS prevention across India via a computerized approach to data collection and reporting
• Refined and proposed new national (India) program monitoring indicators to determine whether progress was being made in HIV antiretroviral therapy and against mother-to-child HIV transmission

Washington, DC

• Directed two of Botswana’s three most successful HIV prevention programs during the height of the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic – success noted by Botswana President Festus Mogae during his keynote address at the 3rd.
• Recommended measures to improve 100 South African organizations’ business and operational processes
• Co-authored Botswana’s national HIV Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Social Marketing Strategy

Master Of Health Sciences

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