Jameson Mirimu
Public Health Specialist
Kampala
Summary
Seasoned Program Officer adept at evaluating progress and implementing strategic improvements. Decisive and forward-thinking leader with a resourceful approach. Offering 7 years of progressive experience.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
51
51
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Program Officer HIV Prevention
USAID-MJAP-LPHS-EC- JINJA
Jinja
02.2021 - Current
- Collaborated with finance department to budget and monitor program operations, ensuring sound fiscal and system management.
- Provide routine technical support to the Extended District Health Teams, E/DHTs, Health Facility supported Staff and community health structures in HIV Prevention, care, and Treatment focus intervention areas of EMTCT, EID, CALHIV and TB/HIV co-infection
- Provide leadership to the field team in offering counselling and psychosocial support in different clusters and districts
- Created and implemented program frameworks, performance standards and quality assurance requirements.
- This is through caretakers’ engagement on a quarterly basis, stakeholder meeting geared towards awareness of the impact of HIV on our community
- Routine designing and implementation of Health systems strengthening, HSS interventions across multiple technical areas including MNCH, FP, Nutrition/WASH, HIV/AIDS and community systems
- Supervised and Coordinated implementation of high quality integrated MCH, HIV/AIDS, TB, Nutrition and Family Health services at micro, meso and community levels within the district
- Participate in work plan development, planned activity request generation, implementation compliance and harmonization for HIV Prevention, care and treatment interventions at project, district, and supported health facilities
- Coordinate community and facility QI teams to support implementation of HIV prevention interventions like HUB and SPOKE Model, MCH/FH, Nutrition, KP/PP, Prep and OVCs screening and linkage
- Coordinate Human Resources for Health, HRH district and facility interventions especially project and GOU staff iHRIS, recruitments and retention, performance management and appraisal and stewardships using CQI integration
- Coordinate and conduct routine mentorships, coaching’s, and training in thematic key HIV areas to include OVC, Linkage and retention, prevention, care, and treatment
- Development of work plans for HIV Prevention interventions at supported health facilities and ensure these interventions are implemented as outlined in the annual work plan, PMP among others
- Routinely ensure timely and quality completion of program technical deliverables and reports in accordance with USAID guidelines
- Coordinate collaboratives with other USAID Uganda cooperating agencies, Government of Uganda, District Local Governments, and community-level programs to harmonize implementation
- Laissed with Technical Advisor and DHTs to coordinate district led HIV field activity implementation to improve facility and community response to HIV epidemic control by 2025 leveraging on the 95:95:95 PEPFAR targets
- Supported routine technical implementation support for facility and community interventions especially follow ups to lost PLHIV clients, advocacy for HIV Prevention
- In coordination with regional programs managers and District programs managers youth and gender officers, I have conducted Viral load camps, community dialogues geared towards ending stigma among people leaving with HIV as well all covid19 survivors
- This has created awareness and it has seen people changing the perception they had about people living with HIV
- Coordinate documentation of successful program implementation experiences and enhanced knowledge sharing to internal and external audiences in health systems strengthening activities service delivery, information, medicines, financing and governance, HIV and TB success stories and abstract drafts
- Coordinated activity implementation harmonization as outlined in the annual workplan and Performance Management Plan as well as avoid duplication through partner coordination
- Support project Health Systems strengthening interventions through implementing HIV Prevention, care and treatment Continuous Quality Improvement interventions at district, community and health facility levels like performance reviews and QI journal club reviews
- Support key data collection and analysis calls on the key project performance and reporting using the soft and hard copy tools like audit tool and HMIS
- Conduct operational research activities at the project supported health facilities as well as document key learning opportunities in the HIV thematic outputs
Program Officer HIV Prevention Officer
Infectious Diseases Institute(IDI) BHP CDC Funded Project
Hoima
02.2018 - 01.2020
- Provide routine technical support to the Extended District Health Teams, E/DHTs, Health Facility supported Staff and community health structures in HIV Prevention, care, and Treatment focus intervention areas of EMTCT, EID, CALHIV and TB/HIV co-infection
- Routine designing and implementation of Health systems strengthening, HSS interventions across multiple technical areas including MNCH, FP, Nutrition/WASH, HIV/AIDS and community systems
- Supervised and Coordinate implementation of high quality integrated MCH, HIV/AIDS, TB, Nutrition and Family Health services at micro, meso and community levels within the district
- Participated in work plan development, planned activity request generation, implementation compliance and harmonization for HIV Prevention, care and treatment interventions at project, district, and supported health facilities
- Coordinated Human Resources for Health, HRH district and facility interventions especially project and GOU staff iHRIS, recruitments and retention, performance management and appraisal and stewardships using CQI integration.
- Coordinate and conduct routine mentorships, coaching’s, and training in thematic key HIV areas to include OVC, Linkage and retention, prevention, care, and treatment.
- Development of work plans for HIV Prevention interventions at supported health facilities and ensure these interventions are implemented as outlined in the annual work plan, PMP among others
- Routinely ensured timely and quality completion of program technical deliverables and reports in accordance with USAID guidelines
- Coordinated collaboratives with other USAID Uganda cooperating agencies, Government of Uganda, District Local Governments, and community-level programs to harmonize implementation
Clinical Trail Psychosocial Counselor
JOINT CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, JCRC LUBOWA
Kampala
10.2017 - 09.2018
- Roles:
- Communicated closely with other counselors to devise programs and activities based on developmental and academic levels.
- Identification, Screening, recruitment, and enrollment of eligible Trial subjects in the target groups of children, adolescents and adults living with HIV/AIDS
- Implemented evidence-based therapeutic interventions to promote positive behavior change.
- Identification, Documentation, Management and reporting of common opportunistic infections, Severe Advance drug and investigational drug product related events to the head Clinical Trail center, MRC London.
- Developed and expanded referral system of service providers to assist clients in attaining services.
- Generate reports from case report forms, CRFs and other Trail source documents, attend to system generated queries, and participate in site monitory meeting visits
- Conduct CMEs on updates in the Standard local treatment guidelines, Consolidated ART guidelines , Protocol amendments and compliance as well as in other non-communicable and communicable diseases.
- Acted as client advocate to coordinate required services or resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
District Psychosocial Counselor Volunteer
MILDMAY UGANDA , MUBENDE REGION
Mityana
02.2015 - 09.2017
- Major Roles
- Coordination, planning and implementation of program activities embedded in the DHMT according to the Project Operational Plans targets like; coordination of facility HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services to include, ART, EMTCT, ASRHR, RMNCAH as well as best service packages, Family Planning, Nutritional Assessment Counselling and support services, NACS among other services
- Coordinate and implement HIV/AIDS biomedical and non-biomedical prevention, car and treatment interventions especially among Key Population and other populations among other activities
- Capacity building and mentorships at community and facility level in line with formulation of MOH compliant CQI/QA interventions to scale up project activity performances above as well as monitoring and evaluation of program activities
- Reporting activity implementation in form of generation of data, financial and audit reports as regards pharmaceutical and medical supplies, clinical service data generation like SURGE reporting as per EMTCT, Prevention VMMC, HTS among others
- Teamwork basis of operation as to scale up service interventional approaches to PEPFAR/UNAIDS 95:95:95 Targets by 200
- This entails implementing partner, MOH, IDI, UCMB player coordination in order to effect accelerated target achievement of reduced over role new HIV infections by 2030
- Provision of high quality integrated general health care service to the pediatric, adolescent and adult population in line with the current guidelines and ethical recommendations
- Participation in regular program external and internal quality assurance and improvement assessments for accelerated target and performance scale achievemen
- Support Psychotherapy and appropriate case management to conflict and GBV survivors in need of PSS, and basic livelihoods support
- Though this intervention like family dialogues, PEP medical services other was supported to relocate for safety of their life
- This was done through LIVE
- Support conflict and GBV survivors to cope and improve their livelihoods through vocational skills development
- This was aimed to sensitizing people meaning dialogue and coexistence
- Conduct mobilization to scale up access to HIV counselling and testing services for men, Adolescents & Children
- In this case community stake holders were engaged like religious leaders, political leaders and community gate keepers
- Participate in community mobilization for access to HIV prevention, care & treatment services in the community children inclusive
- All facilities were supported to start up adolescent clinics, careers meetings, children, and adolescent non-suppressors camps
- This improved the missed appointments, on the non-suppression rates in the region
- Support and Strengthened community structures to scale up of GBV prevention, care & treatment services
- This has been done through engaging civil society, police to the GBV and rape case through social workers
- Conduct sensitization and mobilized for Post- Gender Based Violence (GBV) care at facility and community level based on the minimum package
- Empowered the YAPS to support fellow peers in drug adherence and relationship management
Education
HRH-USAID - Health Systems Strengthening
John Hopkins University, UNICEF- University of Melbourne
M&E - Fundamentals
USAID/John Hopkins University
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of East London
University Way, London E16 2RD, United Kingdom 06.2022 - Current
Master of Science - Clinical And Psychological Counselling
Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi
Kampala - Uganda 09.2013 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Science - Social Sciences
Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi
Kampala - Uganda 09.2010 - 09.2013
No Degree -
Kyambogo University
Kyambogo -Kampala 09.2003 - 02.2006
High School Diploma -
Mityana Secondary School
Mityana 02.2001 - 11.2002
Advanced TB/HIV Concepts -
USAID/ John Hopkins University
01.2003 - 01.2022
No Degree -
John Hopkins University
04.2001 - 04.2020
Emergency Management
UNFPA
Kampala 05.2023 - 05.2023
Skills
Strength and AbilitiesGood Interpersonal and communication, Emotional Resourcefulness, Teamwork, Leadership, and governanceEnthusiastic, Computer and data management, Interpersonal communication
Technical knowledge
Teamwork and Collaboration
Interpersonal Communication
Accomplishments
- Oral Abstract Conference Presentations
- CQI Institutionalization to achieve optimal HIV Recency testing targets amidst COVID 19 Resurgence: Busia HCIV Experience, Busia District
- 2nd National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention MOH Conference Speke Resort Munyonoyo-Uganda, 23rd-24th Nov.2022
- Abstract Publications
- Professional Registration (s)
Timeline
Emergency Management
UNFPA
05.2023 - 05.2023
MBA - Business Administration And Management
University of East London
06.2022 - Current
Program Officer HIV Prevention
USAID-MJAP-LPHS-EC- JINJA
02.2021 - Current
Program Officer HIV Prevention Officer
Infectious Diseases Institute(IDI) BHP CDC Funded Project
02.2018 - 01.2020
Clinical Trail Psychosocial Counselor
JOINT CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTRE, JCRC LUBOWA
10.2017 - 09.2018
District Psychosocial Counselor Volunteer
MILDMAY UGANDA , MUBENDE REGION
02.2015 - 09.2017
Master of Science - Clinical And Psychological Counselling
Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi
09.2013 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Science - Social Sciences
Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi
09.2010 - 09.2013
No Degree -
Kyambogo University
09.2003 - 02.2006
Advanced TB/HIV Concepts -
USAID/ John Hopkins University
01.2003 - 01.2022
No Degree -
John Hopkins University
04.2001 - 04.2020
High School Diploma -
Mityana Secondary School
02.2001 - 11.2002
HRH-USAID - Health Systems Strengthening
John Hopkins University, UNICEF- University of Melbourne
M&E - Fundamentals
USAID/John Hopkins University