Monitoring and Evaluation Placements for Global Health Track Interns

Monitoring and Evaluation Placements for Global Health Track Interns
7 anticipated placement options:

  • 1 in Mozambique
  • 1 in Rwanda
  • 3 in Tanzania
  • 1 in Ethiopia
  • 1 in New York. 

ICAP, through funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), USAID, and foundations, is currently involved in delivery of comprehensive HIV testing, prevention, and care and treatment services at over 310 clinical sites in 11 sub-Saharan African countries.  Projects at sites in Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia as well as in ICAP’s New York office, described below, will be available for students at Mailman School of Public Health.  Students who can commit to a practicum of 6 months or longer may be prioritized.

General qualifications

Sites and site-specific qualifications

Projects and Responsibilities

Department(s) Most Suited to Project(s)
  • Prior experience working in African country or other developing country
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
  • Flexibility
  • Highly organized.
  • Maputo, Mozambique
  • Proficiency in Portuguese.
  • Strong skills in Excel and/or Access.

Support implementation of comprehensive HIV care and treatment services, including the implementation and evaluation of adherence patient tracking systems and patient tracing systems for defaulting patients, implementation of a TB screening questionnaire, and enhancing linkages and services between other facility services (i.e. TB, PMTCT etc.). This will entail working with ICAP staff (TB, Adherence and M&E Advisors) as well as PLWHA peer educators and activists.
  • Epidemiology
  • Sociomedical Sciences
  • Population and Family Health
  • Kigali, Rwanda
  • Proficiency in French.
  • Strong skills in Excel and/or Access.

Support implementation of a national a retrospective and prospective cohort study of adherence to ART commissioned by the Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH).  This will entail assisting with study monitoring, data cleaning, report writing, and results dissemination. Also support 3 additional studies related to scale-up of HIV care and treatment services.
  • Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (3 placements available)
  • Placement 1: Experience designing and implementing research studies. Proficiency in SAS.
  • Placement 2: Proficiency in SAS or other statistical software.
  • Place 3: Strong skills in Excel and/or Access.
  1. Support a range of studies conducted in Tanzania, including related to prevention with positives and the acceptability and feasibility of scale-up of male circumcision. This will entail assisting the M&E team with  protocol/instrument development, IRB submissions, training interviewers, data collection, cleaning and analysis, and report writing.
  2. Support implementation of routine M&E systems for comprehensive HIV services at the site level as well as is ICAP’s office. This will entail assisting the M&E team with the implementation of patient tracking systems, quarterly data collection on standardized indicators, as well as with data cleaning, analysis and feedback for evidence-based programming.
  3. Support implementation of comprehensive HIV services. This will entail assisting technical and implementation staff with a wide range of program implementation activities, including development of materials, program planning and program tracking.
  • Addis Ababa or ICAP regional office TBD,Ethiopia. Regional offices are located in Shashamene, Dire Dawa/Harari, and Jimma.
  • Experience designing and implementing research studies. Strong skills in Excel and/or Access, as well as proficiency in SAS, SPSS or other statistical software.

Support implementation of routine M&E systems for comprehensive HIV services at the site level as well as in one of ICAP’s regional offices in Ethiopia. This will entail assisting the regional team with the implementation of patient tracking systems, quarterly data collection on standardized indicators, as well as with data cleaning, analysis and feedback for evidence-based programming. Additionally, support the implementation of an observational study of adherence to ART. ).  This will entail assisting with study monitoring, data cleaning and analysis,, report writing, and results dissemination.

 
  • New York, NY
  • Strong skills in Excel and/or Access, as well as proficiency in SAS or other statistical software.

Support ICAP’s M&E team on a range of activities including analyses, manuscript preparation, development of slide sets, development of indicators, and processing of routinely collected indicator data. This position will provide experience working in the headquarters of a large international organization. May include travel to the field.