I am currently a Senior Integration Advisor with the IntraHealth HIV/AIDS Clinical Services Program supported by USAID. This position calls on monitoring FP, MCH, HIV, gender and gender-based violence integration activities, strengthening and routinely monitoring HIV/AIDS, Family Planning, Maternal and child health and gender-based violence integrated clinical services, planning, implementing and reporting on integration indicators and analyzing site data, developing abstracts and other knowledge management tools and documents on best practices.
Concurrently within the same organization,I am the Project Manager for a one-year project funded by the Tides Foundation, a project aiming at refining, doumenting and analyzing integration of family planning into HIV/AIDS services delivery in Rwanda.
I am coinvestigating the PEPFAR Special Initiative on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence evaluation, a multicountry study led by Population Council and conducted in Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa.
Before that, I held the IntraHealth seconded position of Clinical Capacity Building Specialist with Management Sciences for Health HIV/Performance-Based Financing(MSH-HIV/PBF) to provide skilled human resource planning and human management support, training and staff development, technical and organizational assistance to the MOH in the area of human capacity development and HIV/AIDS Performance-Based Financing.
As a self-made man in research with conviction and belief in evidence-based facts, I have been requested to provide my inputs at different stages of projects including proposal design, questionnaire development and testing, consent form, ethical approval and oversight of their implementation as this can be seen in his research experience and programs from their design to information dissemination and use.
Prior to joining the IntraHealth, I served the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) as a Freelance Consultant/Research Assistant; I was the Principal Investigator for two research projects funded by the Global Fund against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) on the prevalence of tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in a Rwandan community and on the relevance of Mycobacterium bovis for human tuberculosis in Rwanda.
As a skilled IT end-user aware of the current rapid evolution of the high technology in the information era, I have kept abreast about very common softwares used in data management and analysis of qualitative and quantitative health research such as Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), Epi info, Excel, and now self training on CS Pro. I am fully fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda.
