Job Position: Program Management

Uchechi Okonmah

I am a Public Health Communications/Promotions Specialist…I am passionate about what i do.

Trish Davis

I am currently a Program Officer with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP).

Prior to joining CCP, I managed public relations and outreach coordination for one of the first U.S. residential substance-abuse treatment centers for women and their children. In Southern Africa, I worked with national and district education partners to pilot a radio program that increased access to basic education for rural children and raised national awareness around HIV/AIDS prevention and care. I have also worked as a reporter: for the largest daily newspaper in Connecticut and for a mid-sized daily in southwest Florida, chronicling issues around growth and development, health, local politics, education and crime.

Thoko Mwapasa

Thoko Mwapasa is Deputy Chief of Party for One Community, an HIV/AIDS combination prevention program in Malawi, under the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP). She has been working in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programs for the past 15 years, using SBCC using mass and community media approaches. She has worked with and directly supported people living with HIV and other vulnerable populations like women, children and youth. She also has experience in food and nutrition as well as water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs. She is passionate about working with adolescent girls and young women, advocating to reduce gender inequalities that increase their vulnerability to HIV, and enabling them to protect themselves against infection. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH).

Stephanie Levy

Senior Associate at ideas42 currently working on projects in global health. Prior to joining ideas42, she worked as a Global Health Fellow for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) providing social and behavior change technical leadership and direction for maternal and child health programming. She has field experience in Africa and Latin America, and she holds an MSPH in Social and Behavioral Interventions from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BS in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University. In addition to a deep interest in all things behavioral, Stephanie also enjoys baking, reading, languages, and board games.