Public Health

Past consulting work with:

  • UNFPA- Bangladesh
  • World Health Organization (WHO)- Geneva, India, SEAR
  • Nomad Foundation- Niger
  • American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)- US
  • Goodbirth Network- Haiti, Mexico, Peru

Offering:

Strong clinical skills:  10 years of emergency nursing, and 18 years of midwifery experience in hospital and community settings, providing maternal and infant healthcare, including low-resource and humanitarian settings, attending over 1200 births. 

Extensive experience in LMIC:  Leadership in program creation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, focused on MCH, and SRHR.  Integrating policy-oriented agendas, gender issues, and protocol development with strong technical support in low and middle-income countries.

Expertise in research in LMIC: Published primary investigator for implementation research, project evaluation, quasi-experimental, case studies, modified Delphi, and quantitative and qualitative research projects.

Participatory, collaborative philosophy:  Deeply committed to inter-professional and cross-sector coordination and communication from the field to MoH to strengthen collaboration, leverage resources, and build strategic alliances and partnerships for optimal outcomes.    

Expertise in the midwifery model of care:  Utilizing midwifery care as a human rights-based approach addressing equity.  Focused on respectful care, quality of education (pre and in-service), women’s experience of care, and a systems approach to interventions.