Partner Focus Area: Malaria

Mouz Asfaw

Mouz Asfaw is an experienced web developer, designer, and communicator with expertise in leading web development projects as well as their operational management. He has experience in managing websites containing a significant number of resources and leading content development efforts. Mouz has been working with Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, managing the CCP Ethiopia country website, leading the design and development of innovative Social and Behavior Change interventions including communication material design, and development of technology-based solutions for community engagement. He has also been supporting the knowledge management efforts of CCP Ethiopia. This includes creating a system for managing and sharing program resources and materials using both online and offline mechanisms. Other SBC interventions under his purview were a mobile app to help families make better informed decisions about their health; content development and design of multimedia products on various health issues; and quality assurance of different productions.

Michael Toso

Mike Toso is a Malaria Program Officer for HC3. He is a public health professional with more than 7 years experience in international development, 5 of which were devoted to health project design and implementation in the field. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs and its HC3 project, Mike worked in Senegal as the President’s Malaria Initiative liaison for the Stomping Out Malaria in Africa Peace Corps initiative. Prior to working in Senegal, Mike completed a masters in Community Health Education with Western Illinois University and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs Peace Corps Fellows program. While completing his masters, he completed a year-long internship with Southern Illinois Healthcare implementing a methamphetamine prevention grant for adolescents in Zeigler, Illinois. Mike served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger before grad school, his experiences there appear in the Peace Corps anthology, One Hand Does Not Catch A Buffalo’s final chapter, Sustainable Peace.

Mengistu

Mengistu is deputy bureau head at oromia regional health bureau,responsible for almost all health programs managed at subnational level. Has got MD 10 years back and is to defend for his MPhil in health economics from UiB-Harvard public health school joint program.