Partner Focus Area: Neglected Tropical Diseases

Natalie Tibbels

Monitoring Officer, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
MSPH, Health Education and Health Communication, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Naheed Ahmed

I am a Monitoring & Evaluation Program Officer in the Knowledge Management Unit of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs. I assist with KM research activities, such as needs assessments, routine monitoring, and impact evaluations. I am experienced in qualitative and ethnographic field research, with an interest in using data visualization to communicate research findings. I have lived overseas and worked on health projects in Tanzania and South Africa. I have a Master’s of Public Health and Master’s of Bio-cultural Medical Anthropology from the University of South Florida.

Mwebembezi Jostas

BRIEF PROFILE OF MWEBEMBEZI JOSTAS
Mr.Jostas is the Executive Director, Founder and Senior Research Consultant of Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy (RCRA) a not for profit communication for development organisation in Uganda working to improve lives of women and children. Mr. Jostas has a first Degree in Statistics from Makerere University Kampala. He is a certified public statistician with substantial experience in Project planning and Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Mr.Jostas has worked in behavioral change communication and advocacy fields for the last 6 years – with expertise in managing teams, research, monitoring and evaluation of programs including the development of Monitoring & Evaluation(M&E) plans, M&E methodologies and indicators; data collection and analysis protocol, undertaking baseline surveys process, mid-term, and end-term evaluations; monitoring and evaluating multi-region large scale health programmes, including in fragile and post-conflict environments; conducting data quality assessments, interpreting performance results and analysis of the implications of such results in the country context; report writing and Promoting research uptake. His expertise has seen him manage exciting and complex projects mainly focused on health systems strengthening, mHealth, reproductive health, family planning, malaria, HIV/AIDS, advocacy, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Child Surviva