Anna Schurmann

Experience

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  UNICEF

  Aug 2004 - Dec 2005

  Asst. Programme Officer

  Planning section: project reporting and documentation

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  Concerned for Working Children (CWC)

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2006

  Consultant

  I researched and wrote a situation analysis of internal labour migration in Karnataka, India.

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  ICDDR,B

  Dec 2006 - Jul 2007

  Consultant

  Policy analysis and evaluation for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health Social Exclusion Knowledge Network and the Priority Public Health Concerns Network. Case studies included secondary education, microcredit, safe abortion and civil society.

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  Carolina Population Center

  May 2008 - May 2010

  Research Associate

  Capacity development, capacity assessment, reporting and dissemination related responsibilities (40 million USD project). Designed and delivered basic M&E training program in Nairobi to both program and research audiences, with web-based support. Facilitated multi-stakeholder input into data collection tools. Coordinated ethics review process for a multi-site study.

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  Www.publichealthstrategies.net

  Jun 2010 - now

  Senior Technical Consultant: Public Health

  I am a public health consultant who works across India and also East and Southern Africa. My main areas of expertise are in translating research into practice; including research strategy; monitoring and evaluation; qualitative research; fostering data use; dissemination and capacity building. I use a lot of design thinking methodologies and other participatory techniques to ensure broad and local ownership of any effort. I have worked a lot around new technologies in health and other program innovations, with a focus on scale up. I do a lot of technical writing and maintain a blog at my website: http://www.publichealthstrategies.net/Capacity Building: Creating training materials for the rollout of a HRH Information System in Zambia; Advisory services for the National Urban Health Mission (Government of India); Initiatives Inc/ PATH - tools for mainstreaming TB in rural India; MPTAST/ICDS Created a toolkit for innovation in Madhya Pradesh, India. Strategic support: Compiling a framework to assess the private sector primary care landscape for ACCESS Health/ BMGF; Providing strategic support to the National Health Mission in Haryana for Abt/ USAID. Research and Documentation of Best Practices for Scale Up: BMGF/Vital Wave review of eHealth and mHealth; CRS's ReMIND Project; the Norwegian India Partnership Project's Yashoda Initiative; The Smart Care Project in Zambia; Review of human resource information systems in 10 different Indian states for CDC/ FHI 360's Project SNEH.M&E/ Operations Research Frameworks and Tools: An M&E Framework for PHFI/USAID's PIPPSE Project; An Operation's Research protocol and tools for Marie Stopes/ PSI Uganda; Research advisory support and tool creation for Ecofemme/ DASRAInnovation: Designing and development of an award-winning app in the areas of sexual and reproductive health; developed an Innovation Manual for the MPTAST Project/ ICDS Program, for FHI 360/ DFID. Show less

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  IntraHealth International

  Oct 2010 - Sept 2012

  Technical Advisor

  Provide technical support on issues of knowledge management and scale up, including developing strategy, documentation, communications and program review. Development and implementation of a strategy and toolkit for knowledge management and scale up.

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  Vital Wave

  Oct 2013 - Dec 2021

  Senior Analyst

  Advisory support and assessments on digital interventions global health and development, covering Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia.