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Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Pages 129-148
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In late 2011, she additionally assumed leadership for the Child Abuse Prevention Program, which for 10 years has made grants aimed at preventing child maltreatment. Eran Bendavid is an infectious diseases physician, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and an affiliate at the Center for 129
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Triangulation analysis in mixed methods evaluations has been one of Carugi's main interests since he joined the GEF Independent Evaluation Office. Another major area of interest is the evaluation process.
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She initially held responsibilities for strategy development, program management, and impact evaluation for HIV, maternal, and child health programming. She was also responsible subsequently for the foundation's initiatives in vaccine development and delivery in India.
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She co-edited Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Handbook for the Design and Management of Programs, the first book ever produced for managers of Sexually Transmitted Infection programs in developing countries, now considered a standard supplementary text for graduate programs in international health. Peter Elias is a labor economist.
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In December 2013 he accepted an honorary professorship at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, and was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Life Study. Batya Elul is Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Director of Strategic Information at ICAP, a large center at Columbia University that focuses on implementation support, capacity building, and technical assistance for HIV and related health programs in resource-limited settings.
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She created and is directing the two fellowship programs at IHME, and is coordinating the overall curriculum and degree programs the institute offers through the Department of Global Health. Originally from Greece, Gakidou moved to the United States for higher education and received her degrees -- a bachelor of arts, a master of international health economics, and a Ph.D.
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Catherine Goodman is a senior lecturer in health economics and policy in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has 15 years of experience in applied health systems research in low- and middle-income settings, with a focus on private-sector provision, health care financing and governance, and the economics of malaria control.
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Her work in this area includes studying the demand for private health services in Sri Lanka and Cyprus, developing innovative methods for studying private-sector supply chains for antimalarial medicines, and evaluating a voucher scheme for delivering insecticide-treated mosquito nets. She was a co-investigator for the Independent Evaluation of AMFm for the Global Fund.
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He is responsible for providing support to the TERG in the implementation of the TERG work plan including the management of independent evaluations. His experience at the Global Fund since 2005 includes managing teams on strategic information and impact evaluation.
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As a clinically trained epidemiologist Kurth's research focuses on sexual and reproductive health as well as on global health system strengthening and using information and communication technologies among other approaches. Her work has been funded by NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, CDC, and others, for studies conducted in the United States and internationally.
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Mookherji's research interests include methods for evaluating interventions to improve health systems performance; using case study methods for program and systems evaluation; urban health; tuberculosis control; and maternal and child health. Her current research includes using multiple case studies to understand what drives improvements in routine immunization performance in sub-Saharan Africa; mixed methods evaluation for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative for Africa (MEPI)
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As the ROADS Project Director, and previously the Deputy ROADS Project Director, she has initiated, led, and been instrumental in developing key program innovations, including the "cluster" community-organizing model and programming to address accessibility and uptake of HIV and health services, gender-based violence, economic strengthening, and food insecurity in the context of HIV and broader health. Muroki has more than 10 years' extensive and direct experience working on regional HIV and health programs that critically and effectively require high-level tact in bilateral relations with country systems, USAID country missions, and transport corridor communities.
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Nugent subsequently was Director of Health and Economic Development at the Population Reference Bureau and Deputy Director of Global Health at the Center for Global Development. In recent years, Nugent has worked on the economic evaluation of health interventions and fiscal policies to address noncommunicable diseases.
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Rugg has more than 30 years of professional international and national evaluation experience and has led international evaluation standards-setting bodies such as the HIV/AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) where she served as Chair from 2006–2011 and the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG)
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Her main research interest is the development and evaluation of public health interventions for newborn, infant, and child survival in low- and middle-income countries, including evaluation of equity as well as effectiveness. She is principal investigator of IDEAS, a 5-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the aim of improving the evidence base for maternal and newborn health programs in Ethiopia, India, and Nigeria.
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He is currently in charge of the International Survey Research and Evaluation line of business, concentrating on survey research, with significant emphasis on maternal and child health and nutrition and diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria. He came to ICF through the acquisition of Macro International.
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He is seconded from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he is professor of international health. In the DFID he is responsible for the evaluation department and is on the board of the International Initiative on Impact Evaluation (3ie)
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He was Team Leader for the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS, based at the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, from 1995 until 2002. When not living and working in Africa, Whitworth has been an academic staff member, specializing in HIV and vector-borne parasitic diseases, at both the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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She currently directs two forums: one on Global Violence Prevention and the other on Public Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety. She is also co-directing a workshop on Evaluation Methods for Large-Scale, Complex, Multi-National Global Health Initiatives.
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For 6 years, she served as the Executive Director of a Ryan White–funded HIV/ AIDS consortium, developing a comprehensive ambulatory care system for 21 mostly rural counties in North Carolina. Previous North Carolina health-related committee service includes a number of advisory committees to the Governor of North Carolina and to the Secretary of North Carolina DHHS for programmatic and policy issues related to HIV care, prevention, and treatment, as well as substance abuse prevention and treatment.
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