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I specialize in health policy and financing including applied health economic analysis to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of insufficient public health resources and improve access to care. My work is informed by more than 25 years of practical field experience in Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia across a range of health technical areas. Full professional proficiency: English-French-Spanish.Core competencies♦ Evaluation ♦ Applied Research ♦ Impact and Cost Modeling ♦ Strategic Planning ♦ Results Frameworks ♦ Dashboards ♦ Costing ♦ Statistics ♦ Econometrics ♦ Cost-benefit Analysis ♦ Cost-effectiveness Analysis ♦ Efficiency Analysis ♦ Performance Benchmarking ♦ Technical Assistance ♦ Health Financing ♦ Health Insurance ♦ Savings & Loan Associations ♦ Micro-credit ♦ Public-Private Partnerships ♦ Strategic Planning ♦ Project Design ♦ Procurement ♦ Project Management ♦ Monitoring ♦ Mentoring.Country Experience♦ Jordan ♦ Burkina Faso ♦ Niger ♦ Haiti ♦ Liberia ♦ Madagascar ♦ Democratic Republic of the Congo ♦ Ethiopia ♦ Malawi ♦ Kenya ♦ Cambodia ♦ Nepal ♦ Vietnam ♦ Dominican Republic. Technical Areas♦ Family Planning ♦ Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health ♦ Immunizations ♦ Nutrition ♦ Water & Sanitation ♦ HIV/AIDS ♦ Tuberculosis ♦ Malaria ♦ Universal Health Coverage ♦ Social Protection. Software♦ Stata 18 ♦ Power BI ♦ Tableau Public ♦ Excel 2016 ♦ TreePlan ♦ Sensit (Sensitivity Analysis) ♦ SimVoi (Monte Carlo Simulation) ♦ Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) Builder ♦ PowerPivot ♦ Spectrum Lives Saved Tool (LiST), Goals (HIV Cost and Impact modeling) ♦ Performance Improvement Management-Data Envelopment Analysis software (PIM-DEA) 3.2.

Listed skills include International Development, Capacity Building, Public Health, Program Evaluation, and 31 others.