Salim Suleiman Mwakidzuga
Summary
Personal Profile
A diligent focused heathcareprofessional with over 12 years of experience. My expertise spans across Public Health leadership, Clinical practice, Scientific Research, and Program Management. I am highly motivated, an ingenious team player and bring on board an attractive mix of both leadership and technical skills. I have experience working with integrated HIV/AIDS, Covid 19 Public health programs and providing technical guidance at agency, implementing partner and MOH levels. I am adept at and Monitoring and Evaluation for Clinical HIV Services. My research interests include Health Systems Strengthening, Policy and Non Covid 19. Additionally, I have core competencies in driving Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives. I am trained in Child Protection, Vaccinology and seek to foster transformative programming.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Medical Coordinator
Vision Imaging and Medical Centre
11.2014 - Current
- Succesfully launched Youth Friendly HIV Clinic with majority of the clients recording zero copies of Viral load results
- Provinsion of technical oversight to the Paediatric HIV and PMTCT portfolio by providing expert direction in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of TB/HIV and HIV/AIDS interventions
- Responsibilities:
- Participate in regular stakeholders mapping and analysis of financial and technical strengths of the organization to promote leveraging of resources and coordination of organization efforts for effective and efficient delivery of results to clients
- Develop and improve the foundation policy, protocols, and procedures are given that these issues reflect the core of the institutional constitution
- Ensures medical services and operations are in compliance with all applicable regulatory and licensing agencies
- Assesses all matters of clinical compliance and provides timely recommendations for corrective action and quality improvement
- Responsible for providing overall technical leadership and guidance of healthcare services provided to ensure service delivery is as per the laid guidelines
- Ensures quality assurance of vision imaging treatment models, are in alignment with organizational strategy
- Champion and support programming toward the desired service delivery outcomes for clients
- Provide Technical leadership including, providing technical support, oversight, and capacity building, to technical staff and support staff within the organization
- Represent the organization to appropriate technical, coordination, and advocacy bodies on issues related to health
- Establish and maintain meaningful working and collaborative relationships with the MOH departments and other stakeholders in the health sector
- Compile best practices and capture them subsequently in a quarterly magazine
- Represent vision imaging in various stakeholder meetings and forums
- Document and write monthly quarterly and yearly reports of the organization
- Analyze data to make informed decisions about the organization
- Promote knowledge management by drafting and finalizing documents, reports, lessons learned, human interest stories to build the capacity of the organization.
Seaforth Kenya ltd
03.2019 - Current
- Coordinating covid 19 activities among seamen including vaccination on board, management of covid 19 cases.
Program Officer
Kenya AIDS NGO Consortium
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Global fund round 10, HIV/TB/Malaria
- Key Achievements:
- Established and launched Watamu drop-in center, screened injecting drug users for HIV, TB, and Hepatitis B, and all those who tested positive were enrolled for care and treatment
- Ensure a good turn up of Injecting drug users for counseling sessions, we introduced a feeding program and hygiene kit, which involved having a healthy lunch after group therapy sessions followed by taking shower and grooming
- Created HIV awareness among their peers and strictly discourage sharing of needles, this significantly contributed to a decrease in the transmission rate of blood-borne diseases
- With the support from the mobile outreach van, managed to reach the furthest remote area and provided medical services to IDUs who could not be accepted at the normal government or private facilities
- Responsibilities:
- Created acceptance and pioneered in launching a needle exchange program in a highly sensitive Islamic community
- Provided leadership in developing work schedules for the Centre to allow for the smooth running of client identification registration and service acquisition including referrals
- Oversaw the preparation of budgets for specific actions including procurement of commodities where applicable under direct supervision by the position
- Developed appropriate strategies for networking and collaboration with government and non-governmental partners involved in harm reduction initiatives
- In partnership with other sub-recipient organizations did referrals for further care and treatment
- Worked closely with CASCO's office in Malindi, and engaged the office fully during outreaches as facilitators
- Oversaw the day-to-day management and running of the drop-in Centre particularly diagnosis and management of client health conditions
- Trained peer educators on service delivery to the beneficiary
- Successfully establish HIV-positive injecting drug users support group in Watamu
- Established a community advisory board to help in running the program smoothly
- Reviewed, monitored,and evaluate the progress and performance of the drop-in Centre to endure they meet acceptable performance standards
- Prepared monthly, quarterly and yearly progress management reports
- Documented success stories which featured in the US PSB news hour titled, sex and drugs in an HIV infected paradise.
Muslim Education Welfare Association Hospital, Clinic
12.2010 - 12.2012
- Charge of Comprehensive Care and TB, CloselyworkedwithJICA,withtheirsupportacceleratedHTCuptaketoover95%attheoutpatientdepartment
- Introduced community based life skills and behaviour change communication to prevent primary infections
- Responsibilities:
- Reviewed all newly diagnosed HIV/TB patients enrolled and follow up on care
- Chaired weekly support groups meetings for PLHIV
- Geared up PMTC, followed up all HIV exposed infants
- Organized CMES to share updates and best practices
- Organized several exchange visits in and out of the clinic aimed at benchmarking
- Did intensive defaulter tracing and brought back to treatment all defaulters
- Reviewed HTC and RRI registers and made recommendations accordingly
- Developed tools useful in running the HTC clinic.
Police Constable
NationalPoliceService
06.2007 - 11.2010
- Enforced laws and order.
Intern
Coast Teaching and Referral Hospital
06.2006 - 05.2007
Education
Master of Science - Public Health- Epidemiology
Pwani University
01.2021 - 10.2022
CBEC-Kemri Bioethics Initiative-Research methods certificate course - undefined
Planning for Monitoring & Evaluation - undefined
Philantrophy University
undefined
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
01.2011 - 01.2013
Certificatein Project management - undefined
StPaul’s University
Certificate in TB/HIV Course; Ministry of Health& Sanitation - undefined
Diploma - Clinical Medicine
Kenya Medical Training College
01.2001 - 01.2006
Kenya Certificate of Secondary School - undefined
Shimo La Tewa High School
01.1998 - 01.2001
Skills
Assessment Skillsundefined
Accomplishments
- Trainings and Workshop
- Nov 2021: Programming with and for adolescents by UNICEF
- Jun2021:Vaccinology course for health professionals by ECAVI
- Jun2021: Introduction to child protection by UNICEF
- Jun 2015: Integrated Management of Adulthood Illnesses (HIV/AIDS)
- Jan 2014: MARPS online Training
- May 2013 HIV Peer to peer training
- Sept 2011: Clinical Prevention with Positives (PWP) for service providers
- Jul 2010: Management of TB and HIV Collaboration
- May 2008: Post-exposure Prophylaxis training
- Sept 2008: Pediatric HIV Care and Management Training for health providers
- Seminars and Conferences
- 2013; Paedritic Symposium at Mombasa Hospital by Abbort
- Annual voluntary medical camps in Lamu cultural festival.
References
Referees
Dr.Lucy Senyagwa
Consultant Radiologist,Vision Imaging and Medical Centre
Telephone no: +254 723 343 690
Email: lucysenyagwa@gmail.com
Dr. MbarakSalim
Medical Supretendant,Mombasa County
Telephone no: +254 722 829174
Email: mbarak1salim@gmail.com
Tony Nyale Munga
Superintendent of Police, National Police Service
Telephone no: +254 712 652 662
Email: tatamunga@yahoo.com
Interests
Hobbies and Interests
Community Work, Socializing, and Traveling
Timeline
Master of Science - Public Health- Epidemiology
Pwani University
01.2021 - 10.2022
Seaforth Kenya ltd
03.2019 - Current
Medical Coordinator
Vision Imaging and Medical Centre
11.2014 - Current
Program Officer
Kenya AIDS NGO Consortium
01.2013 - 01.2014
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
01.2011 - 01.2013
Muslim Education Welfare Association Hospital, Clinic
12.2010 - 12.2012
Police Constable
NationalPoliceService
06.2007 - 11.2010
Intern
Coast Teaching and Referral Hospital
06.2006 - 05.2007
Diploma - Clinical Medicine
Kenya Medical Training College
01.2001 - 01.2006
Kenya Certificate of Secondary School - undefined
Shimo La Tewa High School
01.1998 - 01.2001
CBEC-Kemri Bioethics Initiative-Research methods certificate course - undefined
Planning for Monitoring & Evaluation - undefined
Philantrophy University
undefined
Certificatein Project management - undefined
StPaul’s University
Certificate in TB/HIV Course; Ministry of Health& Sanitation - undefined
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