National Data Analyst

I am a motivated and passionate public health professional who has programmatic, technical and research/literature search and review skills, particularly with pharmaceutical systems strengthening, pharmacovigilance, evidence-based decision making and pandemic medicine supply chains. Moreover, I possess advanced communication, writing, negotiation, training skills and have designed and implemented quality improvement programmes and training guides to address gaps. Thus far, I have worked about 10 operational research projects and have presented papers at about 14 conferences in South African and globally and have 3 international research publications. I completed a Masters in Pharmacovigilance/adverse events. Specialist Skills and Accomplishments • Management and monitoring of medicine supply at close to 700 facilities in KZN • Reviewing and updating of training manuals, policies and standard operating procedures. • Managed research projects: with data collection, analysis and reports • Knowledge and application of mixed methods research • Data synthesis and creation of simple/indepth reports with key findings • Developed and implemented pharmacovigilance systems increasing adverse event report from about 200 to 3200 reports in 1 year • Abstract drafting and preparing presentation for conferences • Training and mentorship of human resources • Analyzed medicine expenditure and supplier payments for about 300 KZN facilities • Active stakeholder engagements, with building and maintaining relationships • Implementation of robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks and pertinent indicators