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1 CURRICULUM VITAE DR. SHAHANA NAZNEEN MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) MPH (Master of Public Health) EDUCATION: MPH (Master of Public Health) Umea University, Sweden Year: Subjects: Epidemiology, Public Health, Health Economics, Evaluation of public health interventions, Biostatistics. MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) Mymensingh Medical College, Dhaka University, Bangladesh Year: 1988 Subjects: Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology, Forensic Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology, Community Medicine, Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics & Gynaecology. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES: From April 2004 to present Working as Program Manager, Adolescent Development Program, Save the Children USA, Bangladesh Country Office. -Ensure effective program implementation through planning, designing and developing appropriate adolescent development program interventions; -Identification of challenges/priorities and assessing program needs; -Required resource mobilization from GOB, NGOs and donors through coordination and collaboration; -Document and disseminate program progress and achievements; update on the program roll out, progress, issues and concerns in a timely manner and seek necessary support. -Providing technical guidance and assistance; ensure needs assessment, capacity development; -Supportive supervision and monitoring of program activities regularly to ensure the achievement of programs objectives; -Budget planning to ensure timely and adequate fund allocation and utilization. -Liaison, networking and policy advocacy with the GOB, NGO and other development partners on adolescent development/ empowerment at different levels to influence policies/ strategies. -Doing operation research, reporting, documentation and publications. - Minimization of community resistance over sensitive issue/ program like adolescent reproductive and sexual health in a rural and conservative setting.

2 - Development of context-specific adolescent program communication material. - Successful implementation of Kishoree Kontha project on adolescent girls empowerment using randomized evaluation method. - Replication of lessons learned from adolescent programming to other programs within organization. From November, 2002 to April 2004 Worked as Program Manager, Community Response, NGO Service Delivery Program (NSDP), Save the Children USA, Bangladesh Country Office. - Identify and analyze the gaps/ barriers/ problems in health services providing by the USAID funded community-based clinics. - Develop strategies to increase the utilization of centre-based health care services. - Assess and ensure community responses through bringing changes in health care seeking behaviors. - Assist in developing Behavior Change Communication strategies/ materials for the community on child and newborn health. - Piloting and replicate Positive Deviance Inquiry (PDI) and Community-defined quality (CDQ) to enable the community to be involved in planning, implementation and monitoring health services. - Providing support to those NGOs in processing community engagement for their sustainability. - Assistance in designing pro-poor service and BCC strategy for NSDP. -Conduction of a qualitative study on Identification of the perceptions about the health services provided by those clinics and the barriers in accessing those services, faced by the poorest segment of the community in Bangladesh (published by SC). -Experience of working with a multi-partnership with international and national organizations, in a diversified and challenging project - NSDP. From June, 1997 to October, 2002 Worked as Senior Medical Officer in Health Program, BRAC, Bangladesh. -Planning, organizing and implementing training courses for the health professionals at different levels on different health issues, especially on reproductive health. -Providing technical assistance in program planning, implementation and quality improvement of BRAC Health and Nutrition program. -Worked as the national core trainer of Govt. Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP). -Assessing training needs, developing and revising training curriculum along with different training materials. -Follow up, monitoring and supervision of health related training courses. -Providing health related technical assistance to other programs of BRAC. -Coordination within and outside BRAC and also with GOB, as required.

3 -Working experience of community-based nutrition program of BRAC (funded by World Bank & Govt.), a model of GO-NGO collaboration in Bangladesh. -Working experience of Reproductive Health program of BRAC (funded by DFID) throughout Bangladesh. From July, 1996 to May, Worked as Consultant of OXFAM (UK & I) in Bangladesh. - Assess training needs and develop training module on Emergency Health Response for health professionals and Production of oral saline in emergency packet for health workers. - Developed training modules on Production of oral saline in emergency packet and Emergency Health Response which are being used by the partners of OXFAM (UK & I). - Worked as master trainer for the courses on Emergency Health Response. From September, 1993 to June, Worked as Chief, Training Section in Centre for Development Services (CDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh. -Develop training curriculum on Primary Health Care, Family Planning, counseling, STDs, HIV/AIDS, Gender awareness through utilizing effective, need assessment tools & process. -Conduction of training on Primary Health Care, Family Planning, counseling, STDs, HIV /AIDS, Training of Trainers, communication, Family Life Education. -Report writing, follow-up & evaluation of different training courses. -Management of training programs. -Organize & Conduct Staff Education Program related to health and women/gender issues. -Make liaison with Donors & NGOs. -Supervision & Monitoring of workers activities and program progress of Integrated Maternal, Child Health Care and Family Planning Program &Family Life Education Program. -Evaluation of Integrated Maternal, Child Health Care & Family Planning Program and Family Life Education Program and Health Programs of other NGOs. From April 1993 to August Worked as Research Investigator in the Project Glaucoma Prevalence Survey in Bangladesh of Bangladesh Eye Care Society, Bangladesh. -Diagnosis and management of different types of Glaucoma in 4 districts of Bangladesh after having 1 month intensive training on Diagnosis and treatment of Glaucoma including research methodologies in Islamia Eye Hospital, Dhaka. -Diagnosis and treatment of other eye diseases. -Supervision of research activities.

4 -Management of clinical research team. - Experience in clinical research and community eye health. From May 1992 to October Worked as House Surgeon in the Department of Surgery in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. From August 1990 to May Worked as Training Coordinator in Centre for Development Services (CDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh. -Develop training curriculum on Primary Health Care, Family Planning, counseling, STDs, HIV/AIDS, Gender awareness through utilizing effective, need assessment tools & process. -Conduction of training on Primary Health Care, Family Planning, counseling, STDs, HIV /AIDS, Training of Trainers, communication, Family Life Education. -Report writing, follow-up & evaluation of different training. -Management of training program. -Organize & Conduct Staff Education Program related to health and women/gender issues. -Make liaison with Donors & NGOs. -Supervision & Monitoring of workers activities and program progress of Integrated Maternal, Child Health Care and Family Planning Program &Family Life Education Program. -Evaluation of Integrated Maternal, Child Health Care & Family Planning Program and Family Life Education Program. -Evaluation of Health Programs of other NGOs. From August 1989 to July Worked as House Surgeon in the Department of Ophthalmology, Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. From August 1988 to August Internship in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES: - Evaluation of health programs of CARITAS in different areas of Bangladesh, Training Needs Assessment of non-technical supervisors of RSDP/ NIPHP, Facilitation of Training of Trainers (TOT) and Emergency Health Response, OXFAM. - Development of basic and refresher training modules for the Community Mobilizers of Rural Service Delivery Partnership (RSDP) of USAID. - Development of training module on community-based Nutrition programming. - Development of training modules on family planning, reproductive health and nutrition counseling. - Development of training module on Essential Service Package (ESP) for the Program Organizers of BRAC. - Development of training modules on Health Centre Management Course for the Medical Officers and paramedics of BRAC.

5 TRAINING/ COURSE: Reproductive Health: Safe Motherhood, Contraception, HIV/AIDS & counseling, Development & Implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention programs for employees, Safe Motherhood & HIV/AIDS Adolescent Health: Adolescent Development, Development Asset Profile (DAP) Child Health: Essential Newborn Care (ENC), Clinical management of ARI, Breast Feeding Promotion & Management Nutrition: Integrated community-based nutrition program development, Iodine Deficiency Disorders Facilitation: Training of Trainers (TOT), Visualization of Participatory Programs (VIPP) Management: Development Management, Improving Supervision Systems through Training Advocacy: Designing Advocacy strategies for Health Gender: Gender and Sustainable Development; Gender-Policies, Project & Practices (UK); Women s Development (India) Pro-poor: Public-private partnership in health care for poor and disadvantaged Others: Health Hazards due to Arsenic Toxicity; Diagnosis & Treatment of Glaucoma; Randomized Evaluation in social programs (JPAL Executive Course). PUBLICATIONS : 1. Relationship between antenatal visits and pregnancy outcomes, birth weight & maternal age in rural Bangladesh, published by Umea University, Sweden, in Reaching the poorest in NSDP clinics - Perceptions and barriers of the poorest in accessing NSDP services, published by Save the Children USA, Bangladesh Country Office & HDRC, in Experience of using Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health BCC materials in rural Bangladesh, Published by NEARS in Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Program: Community-based model in rural Bangladesh, Published by CORT, New Delhi, India, in Knowledge about Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS among rural adolescents of Bangladesh, published by CORT, New Delhi, India, in PRESENTATIONS: 1. Reproductive and sexual health awareness of rural adolescents through Peer Education, presented in 3 rd APCRSH, Malaysia in Adult-Adolescent Dialogue: A step towards Youth Defined Quality, presented in 4 th APCRSH, India in Positive contraceptive behaviors of rural adolescents: Experience of Save the Children USA in Bangladesh, presented in 5 th APCRSHR, PERSONAL INFORMATION: Date of Birth : October 23, Nationality : Bangladeshi by birth.

6 Religion Marital Status Mailing Address Telephone : Islam : Married : Apt. A1, Earth Lotus, 33-33A Indira Road, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh. : shahanans@hotmail.com : (cell) RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS: Language Known Computer Literacy : English, French, Bengali. : Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SPSS. REFERENCES : 1. Barbara Burroughs, Deputy Country Director, Save the Children at bburroughs@savechildren.org 2. Beth Outterson, Director, Adolescent Health, Save the Children at boutterson@savechildren.org 3. Brad Kerner, Senior Adolescent Reproductive Health Specialist, Save the Children at bkerner@savechildren.org

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