Safiqa K. Email & Phone Number

United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

New York

• Manage communications projects from initial review to launch as part of the publications team, which handles over 500 publications each year to 8.6 million New Yorkers
• Apply knowledge of disease control and health literacy, epidemiological data, and health risk assessments when developing materials
• Review, edit and fact-check materials, including but not limited to flyers, posters, reports, and toolkits, for diverse audiences in New York City
• Ensure materials match agency style, meet accessibility standards according to local laws (Section 508), incorporate information on health inequities, and are written in plain language for greater readability
• Regularly collaborate with vendors (design, translation, and print), other team members and agency staff (including medical professionals) to complete projects and meet deadlines
• Prioritize and handle emergency communications that inform the public and promote positive health behaviors

New York, NY

• Developed country-specific funding targets, culminating in a brief titled Investing in R&D to End TB: A Global Priority designed in Adobe InDesign, a PowerPoint presentation outlining the methodology, and a database.
• Presented at several meetings to high-level leaders, policymakers, and global actors, including at the Lancet Commission on TB with leaders from the World Health Organization and UN Special Envoy on TB
• Assisted in emergency campaign to mitigate rising trend in TB in New York City, which resulted in a greater than 20% increase in budget and national media coverage
• Conducted and analyzed results of an online survey using mixed methods, and presented The Results Are In: Survey on MDR-TB Treatment Preferences at the 2018 Union World Conference on Lung Health
• Authored Is Shorter Better? Understanding the Shorter Regimen for Treating Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, with support from partners, for patients, advocates, and physicians
• Co-authored with the executive director of TAG From Moscow to New York and Beyond: The Future of Tuberculosis Research and Development in the semi-annual Spring 2017 TAGline issue

New York, New York, United States

• Supported facilitation of meal packaging events in different environments in the community and surrounding areas
• Conducted educational presentations, trained volunteers, and delegated tasks to help run meal-packaging events
• Identified opportunities for advocacy and events related to nutrition and public health for colleagues
• Prepared and distributed branded, public health promotional materials at each meal-packaging event

Greater New York City Area

• Planned and generated materials for outreach events, film screenings, and advocacy workshops to promote public health messages and policies
• Submitted and published Letter to the Editors in local newspapers such as the Santa Monica Mirror
• Participated and aided organizers in the RESULTS International Conference 2017 with guest speakers such as President Jim Kim from the World Bank

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Presented research on high-level conversations on the history of infectious disease control and investment in global health, with a focus on HIV/AIDS and TB, to ACTION Global Health Partnership members at the annual.
• Updated epidemiological data and other information in the World Bank Briefing Book using the World Bank project database
• Advocated for greater investment in nutrition and the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility using epidemiological data and evidence-based research in meetings with World Bank Group professionals
• Updated and maintained donor database records in DonorPro in a timely manner
• Edited and fact-checked information on major multilateral funding mechanisms’ transition frameworks in Progress in Peril? The Changing Landscape of Global Health Financing

Ghana

• Analyzed data from local clinics using quantitative and qualitative methods and created data summary reports for the Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R3M) project focused on increasing demand for family.
• Recruited, interviewed, and selected members for the first-ever Youth Advisory Board
• Gathered information from local clinics and medical professionals to aid in monitoring and evaluation assessments

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Assisted the Director of the Department of Social Medicine, Professor Philippe Bourgois, in computer keystrokes, monitoring and managing emails, and performing secretarial and administration duties
• Supported faculty on editing and submitting grant proposals to the National Institute of Health
• Assisted with the Director’s academic publications, including on case studies in social medicine, and transcribed audio clips of interviews for data analysis
• Consulted university faculty, public health professionals, medical professionals, and case managers to inform research
• Maintained CITI IRB training certification

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Organized and archived patient records and cases from mental health facilities and the National Archives
• Transcribed and coded documents with Dedoose for the Mental Health Services Act project
• Collaborated with staff, medical and PhD students, university faculty
• Set up for seminars and meetings on historical and sociocultural contexts of health and disease, and assisted presenters
• Performed clerical activities for PI (printing, photocopying, data entry)

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Assisted in project presentations, and prepared interviews with clients and case managers for quantitative analysis
• Entered metadata on mental health literature for UCLA Library database to increase access to archival collections
• Gathered information from PubMed, Google Scholar, and University Archives on various mental health projects ranging from public policy on mental health to history of mental health facilities in California

Master’S Degree, Global Public Health

Cross-Continental 1-year MPH program (Summer in New York, USA; Fall in Accra, Ghana; Spring in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychobiology; Evolutionary Medicine; Music History