Senior Research Consultant - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Health Protection Strategy - Atlanta, GA
(2025-12)
Provide strategic technical leadership to support institutional strengthening, workforce development, and global health security initiatives under DGHP Institutional Strengthening Team (IST).
- Provide recommendations to IST leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on strategic planning, implementation sequencing, and operational alignment for institutional strengthening activities, including implementing the Organizational Strengthening Modules (OSM), 7-1-7 implementation, Strategic Development Tool (SDT), and the Linkages Framework
- Contributed to strategic discussions regarding sustainability, scalability, and long-term institutionalization of workforce strengthening and public health systems activities support by IST and international stakeholders
- Led strategic review and refinement of IST monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) indicators to improve alignment with DGHP Strategic Program Priorities, the DGHP "North Star" framework, and objectives
- Developed structured indicator alignment frameworks linking programmatic activities to operational outcomes, impact measurement, and organizational priorities, strengthening evidence-based decision-making and leadership reporting
- Designed an institutional diagnostic and decision-support frameworks for country partners and Africa CDC to guide selection of IST tools and interventions based on operational bottlenecks, institutional context, feasibility, urgency, and anticipated impact
- Co-developed structured readiness assessment methodologies, prioritization frameworks, stakeholder engagement tools, and pre-workshop planning approaches to support effective implementation of workforce strengthening and institutional capacity-building activities
- Supported implementation planning and coordination discussions with Colombia INS and IST regarding OSM Workforce Module activities, including workshop sequencing, readiness assessments, stakeholder mapping, and operational planning considerations
- Contributed to the development and refinement of standardized evaluation and implementation approaches for OSM and other institutional strengthening activities to improve consistency, scalability, and sustainability across country applications
- Developed prioritization and scoring methodologies (e.g., feasibility, urgency, impact, readiness) to support strategic resource allocation and implementation decision-making for institutional strengthening activities
- Coordinated collection, synthesis, and dissemination of IST impact highlights and success stories for leadership visibility, strategic communications, and programmatic reporting
- Supported planning discussions related to workforce strengthening and institutional support activities in Colombia, Chile, Mozambique, and the Philippines, including RCCE and Linkages-related initiatives
- Developed and maintained comprehensive project management structures, implementation timelines, and Gantt tracking systems to support coordination, accountability, and alignment across multiple concurrent IST workstreams
- Adapted project management and collaboration systems to accommodate CDC security and platform restrictions by redesigning workflows and deliverables into CDC-accessible formats while maintaining operational continuity
- Supported development of workshop evaluation frameworks, pre/post assessment tools, and structured data collection methodologies to strengthen monitoring of institutional strengthening and workforce development activities
- Provided strategic input on FY26 Blueprint objectives and institutional strengthening priorities to support leadership planning, alignment, and operational decision-making
Health Analyst (Metas Solutions, Contractor) - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Health Protection Strategy - Atlanta, GA
(2020-08 - 2025-07)
Led monitoring and evaluation efforts for the CDC NPHI Program, enhancing data-driven decision-making for support to country partners and COAGs.
- Spearheaded the "end-to-end" development of a cloud-based data system and dashboard in Power Apps and Power BI to manage the collection, analysis and visualization of program data, centralize data tools and improve data use, transparency and dissemination to internal and external audiences
- Designed metrics to track programmatic outcomes
- Supervised a cross-functional team to support the M&E efforts
- Conducted analyses of multi-year country support data to provide insight on program priorities and actionable recommendations to senior leadership
- Developed tracking tools to monitor and analyzing millions in program funding, supporting transparent and efficient reporting to CDC leadership
- Collaborated with leadership and cross-functional CDC staff to improvement the monitoring and evaluation efforts
- Facilitated capacity-building initiatives, training of CDC in-country staff on monitoring and evaluation methodologies
- Designed the strategic data management plan to shape data priorities and guide the collection, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of program data
- Developed indicator frameworks, reporting standards, and SOPs supporting long-term sustainability of monitoring systems within public health agencies
- Coordinated multi-country technical assistance missions with ministries of health and scientific teams across Africa and South Asia
- Conducted institutional capacity assessments and data quality reviews to support adoption of PHI-aligned surveillance functions
- Produced annual program performance briefs and analytic products informing CDC leadership decisions on investment and strategy
- Developed indicator monitoring tool for tracking implementing partners' activities and funding
- Analyzed project management-related data, and developed reports, presentations, and publications
- Coordinated quarterly updates of NPHI Program support metrics and the technical reference materials
- Developed performance reports that tracked progress toward completion of all project-related tasks
- Designed and piloted the COVID-related monitoring and evaluation indicators and protocol with the internal CDC team
- Conducted descriptive and factor analysis on Joint Evaluation Effort data using Excel and R, for contribution to a peer reviewed publication and developed the codebook and method for the analysis
- Collaborated with division leadership to identify data needs, gaps and priorities that measure activity alignment with the organizations mission
- Conducted site visits with cross-functional staff in West African ministries of health and National Institutes of Public Health
- Responsible for evaluating partner programs for impact and return on investment (ROI) and identifying priority countries for ongoing CDC NPHI Program investments that align with mission to support global health security
- Identified strategies and indicators for assessing global health equity outcomes among implementing partners
- Spearheaded and managed an initiative to develop workforce capacity in monitoring and evaluation among CDC in-country staff
- Collaborated with health economist to develop impact-related econometrics to illustrate NPHI ROI
- Oversaw the collection of program success stories and coordinated the dissemination for diverse audiences
- Served on the CDC Center of Global Health (CGH-WIDB) Monitoring and Evaluation Center of Excellence which provides best practices technical support to cross-cutting groups within the division
- Analyzed multi-year evaluation data, wrote the annual report of the findings, and provided recommendations to branch and division leadership
Senior Evaluation Consultant - City of South Fulton, National League of Cities Project - Atlanta, GA
(2020-05 - 2021-02)
Awarded a $500K grant and led community-based health assessments, advancing understanding of social determinants of health in South Fulton. Led the "end-to-end" development, design, and implementation of an innovative interactive city data profile, community health needs assessment, and human health risk assessment.
