Profile
• Master in Business Administration ; BSc in Nursing, part MSc in Epidemiology
• Proven ability for high level coordination and operational leadership, strategic design and business management
• Ten years of experience in public health and humanitarian emergency response with the Government of Canada, Red Cross, UN and INGOs
• International experience in Haiti, Niger, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq
Career Summary
OXFAM GB:
Public health consultant, Lebanon
March 2014-November 2014
United Nations
April 2011-Present
Consultant
December 2014-Present
Public Health coordinator, Iraq
Nov 2012 – November 2013
Emergency Coordinator (Health/Nut/FS), Niger
Mar 2012 – Jul 2012
Operations Manager, Haiti
Jun 2011 – Feb 2012
Field Cluster Advisor (Health), Haiti
Apr 2011 – Jun 2011
German Red Cross
Aug 2010-April 2011
Program Coordinator (Cholera), Haiti
Nov 2010 – Apr 2011
Program Coordinator (Health), Haiti
Aug 2010 – Nov 2010
Canadian government: Public Health Nurse, Canada
Jan 2006 – Jul 2010
Education Summary
MBA, University of Phoenix, USA 2014
MSc (part) Epidemiology, University of Ottawa, Canada Incomplete
BSc Nursing, University of Ottawa, Canada 2005
Training & Qualifications
Registered Nurse Certificate, College of Nurses
Health Cluster coordinator training, United Nations
Hostile Environment training
IMPACT training, Red Cross
Harvard ManageMentor® PLUS, Harvard School of Business
Languages
Fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda, basic Arabic
Publications
• “Ottawa Public Health partners with local school boards to promote healthy living”. Health and Learning Winter 2007. Canadian Teacher’s Federation
• “Strategic Engagement of High Risk in Ethnocultural Communities on Diabetes Awareness project” – Member of the project working group
Professional Experience
OXFAM Public Health Consultant, Lebanon
Mar 2014-Oct 2014
• Manage, lead and coordinate the implementation of Oxfam’s community based programme ensuring programme quality, community participation, social mobilisation, public health promotion in all programme related fields.
• Support assessment of partner capacities in identified areas, provide recommendation for relevant partnerships and facilitate the process of partnership
UNITED NATIONS: (Jordan, Iraq, Niger and Haiti)
April 2011-Present
• Lead Health and Nutrition Committees with the Ministry of Health, other UN agencies and NGOs to jointly identify priority activities, and to plan for their implementation
• Facilitate the consultation process between all concerned parties to carry out an appropriate problem, needs and resources assessment
• Ensure that the level and quality of services provided adhere to nationally and internationally accepted standards and medical ethics
• Establish joint protocols for medical treatment, staffing and training and ensure that implementing partners adhere to them
• Set up and participate in the implementation of an effective Health Information System
• Capacity building initiatives to enhance the knowledge, skills and programme ownership
• Coordinate disaster relief activities and emergency preparedness
• Monitor and coordinate cholera response activities in the country
• Participate in the Haitian national disaster management team
Concern Worldwide Emergency Cholera Response
Oct 2012 – Nov 2012
Program Manager, Sierra Leone
• Coordinate the activities of Concern’s Cholera Response plan
• Undertake rapid assessments to identify programmatic gaps and recommend appropriate interventions
• Manage the Cholera response intervention team staff and budget, ensuring that donor funds are spent as proposed and within set timeframe
• Manage contracts (works, temporary labour, etc.) and ensure effective delivery
• Procure Cholera response supplies, liaising with Logistics and WASH teams in the field
• Design an exit strategy to integrate Cholera activities into existing WASH programmes
German Red Cross
Aug 2010– Apr 2011
• Coordinate with Haitian authorities and Haitian Red Cross to identify a health facility for the revitalization of a community referral hospital
• Coordinate the reconstruction of the Haitian Red Cross National Blood Bank
• Coordinate the psychosocial project aimed at improving the psychosocial wellbeing of Haiti’s earthquake survivor
• Manage the health budget
• a cholera specific hygiene promotion and protection strategy
• Ensure that relevant WHO/MOH policies, protocols and guidelines are being adhered to
• Assist in the recruitment and training of additional health promotion staff
• Ensure that medical/hygiene kit procurement storage and distribution is in line with best practise and provide support to logs to ensure that this system is in place
City of Ottawa/Public Health Nurse, Canada
Jan 2006 – Jul 2010
• Analyse health status within populations to establish priorities for action
• Assess risk factors, issues, protective factors and assets using the community health assessment process
• Deliver and implement public health interventions, action plans, programs and services
• Implement health promotion strategies – community mobilization and development, health education, mass communication, healthy public policy and advocacy
• Identify best practices and implement across Ottawa health units and agencies
• Collaborate with aboriginal CBOs to deliver health information to aboriginal youth
• Manage projects and campaigns promoting physical activity and nutrition including management of relationship with community organizations
• Recruit, train, manage and support health promoters and other new staff
• Control and allocate the financial budget for the program
• Design and implement a monitoring system to track and evaluate the projects
• Coordinate press conferences, workshops and conference
• Conduct infant, school age, and adult immunizations clinics
• Consultation on immunizations with other health care professionals
• Administer H1N1 vaccine
• Provide health information to Ottawa residents during the H1N1 pandemic via the Ottawa Public Health Info Line
University of Ottawa School of Nursing Professor (part time)
Sept 2008 – Jan 2009
• Guide students with academic requirements, their first health promotion experience and application of health promotion theories in the community
• Advise community partners on assisting students in the clinical placement requirements
AIDS Committee of Ottawa Volunteer
May 2008 – Jul 2010
• Community outreach, education and health promotion
• Participate in prevention activities aimed at Africa-Canadians and Caribbean-Canadians
• Participate in activities aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS stigm
