JERE hASWEL
BAYLOR
Summary
Technical and program manager with over 15 years’ experience working in HIV / AIDS treatment and care, TB care , Cervical cancer and HIV diagnostics projects providing skillful support to senior executives while supporting colleagues in various teams with professional mentorship and supervision. Wide experience working various technical working groups including HIV/ART technical working group and Diagnostic Technical working group , Third line committee for over 8 years. .
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
District Coordinator/Manager
Baylor College
01.2020 - Current
- Of medicine) –TSP/CORE project-USG funded
- Leading program team in efforts to achieve program goals through identification of gaps and empowering staff to find solutions
- Developing annual work plans and monitoring implementation of the planned activities
- Providing leadership and technical assistance focused at the point of service delivery (in health centers and hospitals)
- Ensuring documentation and dissemination of best practices and innovative program approaches in the program.
- Responsible for stakeholder’s managements and coordination for stakeholders working in HIV/TB space
- Supervising and mentorship clinical staff inclusive of performance evaluations and building capacity where gaps are identified
- Overseeing health programs mentorship schedules of district mentorship teams and facilitating collaboration and communication across district teams of over 300 members of staff
- Reviewing monthly and quarterly MER performance of the sites and district to track progress against target in the targets
- Assisting in developing and writing reports (monthly, quarterly, and annual reports or other ad hoc reports as requested by donor and/or prime)
- Developing and implementing technical tools for program implementation
- Representing Baylor-Tingathe at meetings with partners and stakeholders as needed
- Supervising and fostering technical HIV/TB professional growth among staff members, specifically clinical mentors, to develop clinical teaching, leadership and program management skills
- Synthesizing programmatic HIV/AIDS and TB information and packaging it into presentations, abstracts, for use at workshops, and staff level meetings and Research Conferences.
Manager, Projects
DREAM Program
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Provided leadership and management to ensure that the project achieves its goals on planned activities to meet targets according to the work plans
- Supported Program Director in leading the process in developing annual work plans and other plan as requested
- Successfully led project proposal design and proposal writing for several projects which were implemented successfully implemented
- Represented the program in technical working group, partner and stakeholder meetings, and in public, private sector and professional circles through networking, meetings, conferences, and presentations;
- Developed and maintained relationships with the donor, MOH, partners and stakeholders;
- Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant departments functions are kept informed of strategies
- Assisted in preparing and presenting programmatic experiences/data in national and international settings
- Successfully implemented two HIV/AIDS and Cervical cancer projects resulting into 300% increase in funding and extension of the period from 2 years to 5 years
- Supported grant applications that are aligned and approved for submission by the leadership
- Participated in various Technical Working Groups, and aligned projects implementation of technical best practices, in particular in health systems strengthening to country policies
- Managed and tracked several projects budgets to ensure project activities are implemented within the budgets and that idle resources are re programmed to high priority projects activities
- Led the budgeting and development of the work plans for various projects
- Participated in the recruitment and staff for various positions in the program
- Contributed and collaborated on writing of abstracts, presentations, manuscripts, and success stories .
Research Project Manager
DREAM Program
01.2011 - 01.2016
- Designed and implemented more than 4 biomedical and community projects
- Mentorship and supervision of the project staff
- Budgeting and implementation of various projects
- Project report writing
- Monitored and evaluated more than 4 HIV projects for which data was presented at technical working groups, national and international scientific conferences
- Designed and implemented standard operating procedures for 2 Studies in PMTCT
- Trained, supervised and monitored over 20 clinical and non-clinical staff in HIV related study implementation
- Designed data quantitative and qualitative data, collection tools for several HIV/AIDS studies in collaboration with the Principal investigators
- Generating winning abstracts to ICASA, IAS , College of medicine and National AIDS commission research conferences
- Co-authored over 10 scientific publication in various international journals
Senior clinical OFFICER
DREAM Program
01.2007 - 03.2010
- Mentored and supervised health workers in the management of HIV and TB in positive patients
- Reviewed difficult HIV/TB patients from all health facilities in DREAM sites in Blantyre
- Routine clinical care of HIV positive patients
- Led data collection and compiled cohort reports for ministry of health supervision teams
- Implemented and supervised more than 5 research studies
Clinical Officer
Kamuzu central Hospital
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Ministry of Health
- General care of inpatient and outpatient clients
- Diagnosis and management of various clinical conditions
- Consulting with senior medical officers and consultants on difficult cases
- Minor and major obstetric and surgical operations
Education
Ph.D. - Public Health
Texilla American University
Guyana06.2025
Master of Science - Public Health
Shareworld University
Malawi11.2018
–Health systems management
Exploits University
Lilongwe -Malawi05.2014
Diploma - CLINICAL MEDICINE, Medicine, obstetrics and gynecology
MALAWI COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Malawi12.2005
Skills
- Excellent Computer skills ( Microsoft word , excel )
- Project implementation, monitoring and evaluation
- Couching and mentorship of teams
- Abstract writing and presentations
- Project design
- Master trainer in ART/TB guidelines
- Abstract writing and presentation
- Plan Projects
- Administration and Reporting
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Employee Training
- Team Leadership
- Staff Management
- Budgeting and Cost Control
- Project Management
- Performance Tracking and Evaluations
Accomplishments
- ABSTRACTS AND CONFERENCES
- Impact Community ART distribution (CAD) on retention and viral suppression presented at Raise Symposium -Lilongwe Malawi-2023
- Intensified supervision and improvement in disclosure counseling implementation at Baylor Malawi health facilities in 5 districts in Malawi (presented at 23rd networking meeting –South Africa in 2022
- Factors associated with abnormal cervical cancer screening results among women aged 15 to 49 years in Malawi –Mangochi district ( presented at ICASA, College of medicine conference and NAC conference- Ivory coast and Malawi in 2017
- Determinants associated with prevalence and severity of non-communicable disease (NCDs) Among HIV cohort in Malawi ( Accepted at ICASA, College of medicine , and NAC conferences in 2017
- Evaluation of Community Defaulter tracing among option B in Malawi ( Accepted at INTEREST conference in Lilongwe ,in 2016
- Evaluation of a Cervical Cancer Screening Project in high HIV burden setting in Malawi-Retrospective Analysis ( Accepted for INTEREST conference , Rwanda .2018
Certification
Short Certification courses
Project Management-2021( University of Washington)
Monitoring and Evaluation Certificate-2013( Malawi Institute of Managements)
Master trainer in HIV/TB guidelines-2017( HIV /TB department)
Additional Information
- 2
Timeline
District Coordinator/Manager
Baylor College
01.2020 - Current
Manager, Projects
DREAM Program
01.2016 - 01.2019
Research Project Manager
DREAM Program
01.2011 - 01.2016
Senior clinical OFFICER
DREAM Program
01.2007 - 03.2010
Clinical Officer
Kamuzu central Hospital
01.2005 - 01.2007
Ph.D. - Public Health
Texilla American University
Master of Science - Public Health
Shareworld University
–Health systems management
Exploits University
Diploma - CLINICAL MEDICINE, Medicine, obstetrics and gynecology
MALAWI COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
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