Selene Manga

Latin American experienced, medical doctor, infectologist, specialist in infection diseases Control and Prevention Programs in several countries like: Ukraine, Mozambique, Peru and Papua New Guinea.

International expert on evaluation and monitoring of social impact oriented projects f, past Director of the Latin America Society of Pulmonary Diseases 2018-2023, I served as Consultant for two GF Projects: OIM, (United Nations) and USAID Covid 19 Intervention in Peru, and three international positions: Chief of project at Burnet and Australian International Aid Agency, Manager at Medecins Sans Frontieres at Mozambique and Senior researcher at Ukraine at Medecins Sans Frontieres, graduated at Harvard University International Health Program 2021-2023.

Manager of public health programs and interventions, in vulnerable populations in Peru, Ukraine, Mozambique, Mexico, Argentina and Papua New Guinea.

Manager at important international organizations as Health and Basic Nutrition Program (USAID / IDB / World Bank) in 1998, Quality in Health 2008-2010 (USAID) National Immunization Program of Millennium Challenge Corporation (USAID / MCC) in 2010, Aprende Saludable IDB 2015-1017.

Research Associate, Department of International Health, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

Expert in the evaluation of development projects in Peru, addressed to control MDRTB a specialist in staff management in complex situations such as refugee camps, displaced persons, health and humanitarian emergencies, and natural disasters.

Head of Mission Support for the Emergency Cell Operational centre Paris Médecins San Frontieres.

February 2021-Present

• Responsible for the exploratory mission and implementing investment supporting Peruvian government and managing and monitoring the execution of activities throughout the Covid 19 project exploratory phase and implementation.
• Prepare the budget, planning the execution of it. Reports of Covid 19 project progress.
• Ensure the link between Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontieres, managing logistics, Human resources, administrative, political and diplomatic aspects of the project team for the purchases of goods and services for the program.
• Guarantee the proper organization, filing and security of all project information and other highly important documents.
• Support communication with partner organizations and stakeholders about program progress and performance.

Program Manager Country level at USAID/ AMERICARES Emergency Intervention in Peru Covid 19 Several locations inside Peru.

August 2020-December 2020

• Support the Country Director in managing and monitoring the execution of activities throughout the project cycle (planning, execution, measurement, evaluation and learning), verifying difficulties and progress and making the pertinent recommendations both in the technical and methodological fields.
• Prepare the reports of programmatic progress required by the donor, parent company and other organizations / officials.
• Ensure the link with the USAID logistics team for the purchases of goods and services for the program.
• Guarantee the proper organization, filing and security of all project information and other highly important documents.
• Support communication with partner organizations and stakeholders about program progress and performance.
• Ensure good visibility of the project both nationally and locally.
• Represent the organization before external actors and official bodies.
• Organize and implement the entire medical component of the project.
• Train medical personnel on primary health issues.
• Define, supervise and update the medical content of the policies, protocols and guidelines of Americares in Peru with adherence to national norms, policies and protocols, adapting them to the demands of local contexts
• Goal: Reach 98,000 beneficiaries with proper Covid 19 diagnosis and treatment. Controlling the spread of Covid 19 and reduction in mortality due to Covid 19 in Peru.

Team leader Emergency Rapid Response to combat Covid 19 Epidemiology Department DIGERD-MoH at the Peruvian Ministry of Health Peru several locations. 

April 2020-August 2020

• Increasing rapid diagnostic and treatment capacity for Covid at the selected locations.
• Provide isolation, rapid response during the global pandemic.
• Systematic active Covid 19 case finding.
• Providing guidance and technical advisory to the Covid 19 Managers Team at the National in Peru.
• Contributing in the implementation of The National Emergency Response Plan for Covid 19: All over the country territory
• Goal: Controlling the spread of Covid 19 and reduction in mortality due to Covid 19 in Peru.

Tuberculosis Specialist Public Health Team Leader RID-TB Project, DFA Australia and Burnet Institute 

October 2019-March 2020

• As team leader was responsible for Increasing diagnostic and treatment capacity at Daru General Hospital.
• Provide patient-centered community-based care for DS-TB and MDR-TB in Daru Island.
• Systematic active case finding in Daru Island
• Household contact screening and latent TB treatment in Daru
• Contributing in the implementation of The South Fly District Emergency Response Plan for TB: 2014 – 2020
• Goal: Reduction in TB and MDR-TB incidence and suffering in Daru BMU

Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Beira HIV-TB Project, Medicines Sans Frontiers (Mozambican Mission)

February 2019 – September 2019

Supporting the Mission Coordination with the following:

• Development of M&E Framework for the whole intervention 
• Primary and secondary outcome analysis for the operational research project
• Focal liaison person for Operational activities in respective missions with relevant Medical coordinators in other missions,
• Supporting HIV/TB/Hep advisor and relevant epidemiologists.
• Development and support for new operational TB and HIV strategies, e.g., adherence etc.
• Assisting in the update of HIV/TB/HEP specific guidelines whenever needed. 
• Supporting the revision of TB and HIV training modules, and training for MSF staff whenever needed.
• Technical assistance the TB projects in missions to strengthen pharmacovigilance for DR TB drugs in their programs.
• Goal: Increase in 56% the number of beneficiaries suffering from Advanced HIV plus TB and meningitis at the project level.

Senior Operational Researcher for TB HIV in prisons program/Senior advisor for the Vulnerable populations Program Universidad National San Antonio Abad del Cusco Peru.

May 2018-October 2019

Advising the National TB & HIV Program- at the Cusco´s region with the following:

• Reviewing operational research for conducting, monitoring and analysis National TB Program.
• Analysis for the operational research projects on HIV & TB program

Operational Researcher for TB programs /Senior Epidemiologist, Medicines Sans Frontiers (Ukrainian Mission)

August 2017 – May 2018

Supporting the Mission Coordination and epidemiologist advisor with the following:

• Development of operational research and primary documentation for conducting a database of operational, monitoring and analysis of patient’s routine data
• Primary and secondary outcome analysis for the operational research project
• Monitoring and completion of the primary documentation from the field research team within the framework of the observational research
  • throughout the mission, management and assessment of the operational research database and its potential to produce quality evidence to develop the capacity for specific analyses and review
  • In order to capitalise on the Dnepro project documentation and finally, the orientation for the closure of the project.

Medical Officer, World Bank Monetary International Fund

May - October 2015

Served as Leader organising epidemiology / health services for the recent World Bank / International Monetary Fund (WB/IMF) Annual Meeting in October 2015 (in Lima, Peru). (I received recognition as a proficient leader from this, from the WB/IMF.)

Health Specialist Manager, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) April 2015 - June 2016

Team Leader / IADB Technical Assistance Group for the Health / Education Sector, for the Interventionist program (an IADB project). Evaluated and designed the annual plan for addressing diseases, supervised the operations of subcontractors and consultants and designed strategies to achieve project goals. 

Researcher / Supervisor, USAID Operational Projects: August 2010 - July 2017

• Millennium Challenge Corporation Strategies Improving Vaccination Coverage’s in Peru´s Threshold Peru (2010) and Abt Associates Inc. (a USAID Contractor - Health Project in Peru)
• Calidad en Salud USAID funded project to improve quality of public health services in Peru.

Executive Director, National Hospital, Cayetano Heredia Ministry of Health

December 2010 - June 2011

Manager of a 415-bed public hospital and responsible for the financial, human resource, planning and development of innovative projects. Designer of strategies that achieved the hospital’s goals.

Infectious Disease Team Leader, USAID Technical Assistance Group June 2008 - Dec. 2009

Manager for the Infectious Diseases Team, a Health Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Evaluated and designed the group’s annual plan for addressing infectious diseases, supervised the operations of subcontractors and consultants, and designed strategies to achieve project goals.

Deputy Director, San Felipe Clinic, Lima, Peru Nov. 2005 - Aug. 2008

Executive Director of medical staff and management of finances, at one of Peru’s major private health providers.

Research advisor, National Eye Institute, Lima, Peru Jan. 2007 - Aug. 2008

Advisor and researcher for a leading national eye research and treatment centre.

Advisor, National Vaccine Strategy, Ministry of Health, Lima, Peru Jan. 2005-present. 

Contributed research and expertise to a number of vaccination programs and disease-control projects for Peru’s Ministry of Health.

Principal Researcher, National program of Tuberculosis Control Ministry of Health, Cusco, Peru Jan. 2007-present

Contributed research and expertise to a number of TB control research projects, programs and TB-control projects for Peru’s Ministry of Health.

Epidemiology National Manager, Peruvian Social Security 1999-2005

Chief research design strategist and manager of the Office of Epidemiological Research at the national hospital for Peru’s Social Security Institute, 2003-2005.

General Manager of the Office of Epidemiology for Peruvian Social Security Institute, 2002-2005, led a 380-person national network of epidemiologists with responsibility for identifying critical health problems, establishing policy priorities, developing budgets for investments in public health programs and conducting cost-benefit analysis of health strategies.

Manager, Maternal and Child Health USAID project/ Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan 1996-1999

Director for the team that implemented the maternal and childhood health project (funded by the United States Agency for International Development and INCAFAM), a project supported by USAID dedicated to reducing maternal and new born children mortality.

Evaluated and designed the project`s plan for addressing infectious diseases, supervised the operations of subcontractors and consultants and designed strategies to achieve project goals.

Manager, Cholera Control Program/Ministry of Health of Peru 1995-1996

Led Cholera Control Team for the national health ministry’s Office of Epidemiology. Served as liaison with for the Pan-American Institute of Animal Control and Food-borne Diseases of the Pan-American Health Organization. Manager of program of surveillance and control of food-borne diseases.

Harvard University Program in International Health -Concentration in Humanitarian Health at Harvard University School of Public Health Boston USA 2021-2023

Master’s Degree in Epidemiology/ San Marcos University, Lima, Peru 2003

Doctor of Medicine/ San Augustine University, Arequipa, Peru 1991

1. Other Training Courses
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3. June 2023 
4. Certified as Expert in Vaccinology University of Geneva Merieux Institute
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6. May 2023
7. International Health Diploma Harvard University Global Health School 
8. March 2019 
9. Global health and Humanitarian Medicine Course by MSF London and Royal School of Medicine of London OK 
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11. July 2018 

Management of Operational and clinical aspects of Resistant Tuberculosis CME Credits course THE UNION Lima, Peru July 2018

1. October 2018
2. MECOR ATS Methods in Clinical operational Research Level II in TB Bogota 2018 
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4. March 2018

Ukrainian MoH Yanovsky NAMSU National TB Control Programme Annual meeting Evaluating and presenting TB experiences, Kiev March 28-30 2018

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2. August 2017
3. Argentinian Association for Respiratory Medicine AAMR
4. Course for Experts on Lung Infections, Buenos Aires August 2017 
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6. April 30-May 13, 2017

World Health Organization Sondalo Course on the implementation of the WHO End TB strategy for TB control, Cepina, Italy 

August 30-December 13, 2015

Research on Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics for the Developing World Life Medical centre CHAUM, South Korea 

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2. March - May 2013.

Virology Post graduate Merieux Foundation Annecy France February 2013

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2. September 2012

European Society of Respiratory Diseases: Attended IX European Congress Vienna Austria

1. July 2011

Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Diseases and public Health La Habana Cuba: Advanced course in Dengue and Dengue control WHO supported: Presenter at the XX Advanced course.

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2. July 2008

World Bank: Selected as a participant in seminar on accelerating progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Washington, DC.

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2. May 2007

World Bank: Participant in seminar: “Reaching the poor with effective health, nutrition and population services: What works, what doesn’t, and why?” Washington, DC.

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2. June 2004

World Bank, Pan-American Health Organization, World Health Organization and U.S. Census Bureau: Attended workshop on “Improving the measurement of Poverty,” Washington, DC.

May 2003

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health: Participated in Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology, a four-week, post-graduate training program in health policy and management, Baltimore, MD.

Korean International Cooperation Agency: Participant in a six-week training course in health management focusing on health insurance systems, managing of health system and financing health reform, Seoul, South Korea.

January 2002

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health: Attended Graduate Winter Institute of Epidemiology, a two-week, post-graduate training program in data analysis using STATA version 7, Baltimore, MD.

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health: Attended Graduate Winter Institute of Epidemiology, three-month, post-graduate training in epidemiology and biostatistics, Baltimore, MD.

July 2001

College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Pan-American Health Organization, World Health Organization: Attended Intermediate Summer Session in Epidemiology, Tampa, FL.