Yasmin Dunkley

Experience

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  Kent Refugee Help

  Jul 2011 - Sept 2011

  Case Worker Assistant

  • Provided pastoral and legal support to detainees in the Dover Immigration Removal Centre.• Communicated with vulnerable people, who lacked English proficiency, in order to compile case reports and to educate them as to their rights under UK law.• Chased up solicitors to gain effective legal representation for detainees.

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  Freelance

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Private tuition

  - Private English, French and German tuition- University of Koeln accreditation

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  Various Companies

  Aug 2013 - Jul 2015

  Health and HIV Awareness and Prevention Workshop Coordinator

  - Launching an adapted University of Cape Town outreach programme focusing on Health and HIV Awareness and Prevention.- Liaising with a POCT agency, (targeted at Black MSM) to ensure workshop participants were enabled to get tested.- Marketing and selling the workshops through the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, and the Somali Association of South Africa. - Training volunteers in how to continue the programme, and organising community outreach events.

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  University of Oxford

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2014

  Fieldwork Coordinator

  - Fieldwork support worker for a mixed-method research study into youth ARV adherence with Oxford University and the University of Cape Town based in East London, South Africa. - Qualitatively interviewing and working one to one with AIDs affected teens, their caregivers, and clinic staff, giving voice to their discontents and becoming an integrated part of their support networks, as according to confidentiality and informed consent best practice. - Designing, organising and running a series of therapeutic and research related 'body-mapping' camps, incorporating workshops, as outreach to educate AIDS-affected young people about their health, treatment histories and HIV positive status. - Aiding in the design, content and translation of the quantitative questionnaire (research tool). - Training volunteers to run the quantitative interviews of teenagers in a variety of community settings, including clinics, and camps, reaching the goal of 600 interviews in 4months. - Researching intervention literature and working with young people to develop an adherence ‘tool’ i.e. an intervention to change risky behaviours. - Introducing a series of social grants leaflets which are now available in two provinces in South Africa. Show less

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  Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town

  Jun 2014 - Jun 2015

  - Daily administration of the Scalabrini English School, a school designed for adult refugee and migrant learners from black African communities. - Providing emotional and practical support to students and teachers, and managing student referrals to employment, advocacy, welfare and health services. - Teaching ESOL to adult learners with an integrated health curriculum. - Teaching basic literacy as part of an adapted 'read and write' curriculum. - Creating an informal network of visiting professionals to provide skills based training for adult refugees, including doctors and bankers etc. - Organising Teacher Training Workshops for volunteer teacher’s skills development. - Designing, piloting, and launching the first phase of a self-developed HIV awareness workshop programme to teach adult refugees about their health and their bodies. Show less

  • ESOL Teacher

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  • Managing Assistant

    Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
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  Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford

  Jul 2014 - May 2015

  Consultant/ TAG Camp Organiser

  - Organising and project managing 'TAG’ (Teen Advisory Group) Camp 2014, a consultative research project run in collaboration with the University of Oxford, UNICEF and the South African Department of Health. - Working with 20 AIDS-affected teenagers to consult them on their health care experiences and practices through group programmes and activities that I designed. - Delivering key health care interventions to these vulnerable teens, as well as leading the teens in non-consultation related activities. - Filming the teens as a training tool to show government, UNICEF, international funders and future health workers the teenagers’ views on what constitutes best clinical practice: the film was used by UNICEF in its conference on nursing practice throughout the region. - Facilitating a session where younger TAG participants wrote to the Director General of Health expressing clinical best practice. The DG responded personally to each participant. - Creating a manual with 5years worth of TAG camp information to institutionalise TAG for the next organisers. Show less

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  Terrence Higgins Trust

  Sept 2015 - Jul 2016

  Community Engagement Officer

  HIV health promotion contract lead delivering for key populations and training Health and Social Care professionals. Delivering HIV POCT in community clinics and general sexual health advice and group work. Outreach for faith communities, refugee organisations, PSEs. Running large scale campaign events, including National HIV Testing Week, World AIDS Day, and other events throughout existing service delivery. Networking with local organisations to normalise HIV testing throughout Redbridge. Running Quants research alongside service delivery. Show less

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  Redbridge Rainbow Community

  Jan 2016 - Mar 2017

  Board Member

  Board member for RRC, working to improve the lives of LGBT Members of Redbridge, including school delivery, LGBT drop in work, and supporting Heritage Lottery Funded Oral History Projects

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  Positive East

  Jun 2016 - Mar 2019

  HIV Prevention & Testing Team Manager

  Managing HIV primary prevention services throughout East London, both statutory and non-statutory, including submitting bids for grants, as well as for tendering processes, alongside ensuring high accountability in monitoring processes.Developing and delivering a range of training, including training peer volunteers and staff mentors to deliver POCT as well as STI self screens.Leading on clinical governance, and standardising clinical protocols.Leading on our innovative HIV prevention approach, which recruits affected communities to deliver services to those at risk of HIV in settings where at risk communities are found.Innovating on new projects to increase HIV testing among at risk communitites, including working alongside BioSURE and other agencies to pilot user acceptability of self-testing, and community coaching models.Leading change as part of the leadership function within the charity and delivering on strategic priorities. Show less

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  GMI Partnership

  Jun 2016 - Mar 2019

  Outreach Manager

  HIV prevention manager for the GMI partnership outreach team, including the day to day outreach component of the Do It London Partnership, which consists of GMI Partnership and Freedoms.GMI partnership is a matrix organisation between Positive East, Spectra and Metro.

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  Various Companies

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2022

  HIV and Sexual Health Specialist Consultant

  I started freelancing as an HIV specialist consultant in March 2019:March 2021-22NCONGO (Ngamiland Council of NGOS): Developing the Village Company Model rollout in Ngamiland. District AIDS coordinators office: Ngamiland HIV needs assessment. Designing healthcare outreach with OKMCT & DACO.May 2020-March 21Positive East as the Interim Prevention and Testing Team Manager. “Reimagining HIV prevention service delivery post lockdown.”FD Consultants as a Business Development Strategist. British Council (MENA) - National staff support in fragile states (grant writing & research project). Amnesty International, Global - Mapping mental health crises response pathways (research project). VSO International, Tanzania -Investigating mental health crisis responses. May 20-Nov20Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town “COVID19 Internship supervisor and curriculum development”University of Cape Town: Healthcare worker qualitative research support. HIV research during COVID-19.2020-21PubliGestion, Haiti: Successful PEPFAR bid, food fortification and others plus SeroVIE website content writing. Positive East: successful GILEAD grant and Pilgrims Trust grant and others. Fast-Track Cities London, HIV stigma plain English copy-writing. 2019-20ActionPlus Foundation, Ghana, and Uganda, Strategic development, grant writing & COVID19 health promotion March 2019-December 2019West African capacity building, designing, implementing and evaluating in-country workshops to strengthen the national health response to HIV (Over 1 hundred health professionals in both English and French). Agencies included UNAIDS in the Gambia, Ministry of Health in Guinee and the Health Directorate in Ghana. Show less

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  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London

  Nov 2021 - now

  Teaching on the distance learning MSc in epidemiology course, as well as examinations, assessments and in person lectures 3ACP COVID-19 self testing project Nigeria, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. Epidemiology and publications lead. Qualitative support.

  • Lecturer in Epidemiology

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Research Fellow

    Nov 2021 - Dec 2023
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  UNAIDS

  Aug 2022 - Sept 2022

  HIV Technical Consultant - The Gambia

  UNAIDS fast response deployment to write the operational guidelines for PrEP rollout in The Gambia. Administered through Oxford Policy Management.

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  WWF

  Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

  Technical Consultant

  Providing technical assistance to umbrella NGOs in eastern and Southern Africa to develop climate adaptation, and sustainability programmes for concessions/ conservancies in the region.

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  World Health Organization

  Feb 2023 - Aug 2023

  Technical Consultant

  Evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the Government of Vietnam and WHO web based HIV self testing platform to support further in-county scale up.

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  Positive East

  Feb 2023 - now

  Member Board of Trustees

  Supporting Positive East strategic direction and governance as part of the trustee function

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  Population Services International

  Jul 2023 - now

  HIV and HCV Technical Consultant

  Technical consultant, building the research capacity of the Nigerian HepC3P SFH team in Oyo state. Working to reduce HIV and Hep C incidence through values and preferences work and prospective cohort studies on low dead space syringes and long-acting depot buprenorphine - all integrated within a comprehensive package of harm reduction services.

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  The Global Fund

  Oct 2023 - Oct 2023

  Technical Consultant

  Technical consultant to develop the national Harm Reduction operational guidelines for The Gambia, contracted by Action Aid International (Global Fund)