Annie Willetts
MPH, RN Annie Willetts has worked in public health for 13 years in east and central Africa as well as in Asia. She qualified as a Master in International Public Health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) in 2001. Annie adopts a strong behavioural perspective in her work, which has included projects addressing key public health issues including nutrition, malaria and TB, with various populations including those described as displaced, squatter, rural and urban. A common feature of her work is building partnerships in health between community, public and private sectors, especially the informal health sector. Annie has the skills and experience gained from managing interventions from conception, including initial assessments, to setting up interventions, using sound methods to determine its success and when necessary, informing policy. Annie’s previous clinical background provides the knowledge and insight into the reality of health delivery and health systems in developing country settings. Annie is committed to capacity building and strong monitoring and evaluation, in so far as it assists strong successful projects to be replicated or incorporated into country wide programmes. Annie has worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres, PSI (Populations Services International), REACH (Research on Equity & Community Health) Trust, Malawi, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust, Kenya & Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine, UK thus giving her both development and academic perspectives into public health. | Monique Oliff
DrPH, MN, RN Monique Oliff has worked in the health field for 12 years - in clinical services and in population based programmes and research across rural and urban East, Southern and West Africa. She was awarded a Doctorate in International Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) in 2002. Her work has addressed STI/HIV/TB prevention and management, maternal child health, nutrition as well as water and sanitation from various perspectives. A common aspect of all her work has been multi-level approaches to practice, programming and research. Which she believes is an essential step in finding sustainable, long term solutions to delivering the different and important dimensions of health comprehensively. Her interests and experience are wide-ranging and include rights based advocacy for marginalized groups, quality of care in public facilities, integrated delivery and programming of primary health care and health education, operationalising policies into practice, as well as interdisciplinary collaborative research, innovative methods of dissemination and effective stakeholder involvement. Her work draws on various perspectives including social theories and the strong influence of cultural institutions on health choices; social justice movements that promote effective community engagement around health; organisational theories; policy analyses and the use of strong epidemiological frameworks. She has worked with and for various institutions including: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & South Africa), Reproductive Health & HIV Research Unit, (South Africa); Poverty Alleviation Initiatives Trust (Tanzania), Ministry of Health (Cote D’Ivoire) and AMREF (Tanzania). |