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Skills
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Resty Babirye Okello

Health Researcher, Public Health Officer And Senior Midwife
Kampala

Summary

Enthusiastic and ambitious health professional with a strong passion for delivering high-quality patient care, promoting health, and advancing healthcare knowledge through research. Demonstrates leadership, problem-solving, and project management skills. Coordinates cross-functional teams and analyzes data to achieve impactful health outcomes. Transitioning into a new field, eager to leverage these transferrable skills to drive success in healthcare and research.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
13
13
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Clinical Trials Manager

Baylor Foundation-Uganda
01.2022 - Current


  • Managing concurrent trials effectively by applying strong organizational skills and prioritizing tasks appropriately to meet project deadlines.
  • Developed robust clinical project plans, outlining clear objectives, milestones, and deliverables for each trial phase.
  • Worked with principal investigator and sponsors to facilitate daily trial activities and comply with research protocols.
  • Assessing project staffing needs and coordinating recruitment of competent staff athrough collaboration with the human resource directorate.
  • Facilitating cross-functional collaboration among study teams, fostering a cohesive working environment for optimal trial execution through Supervision and mentorship of staff, including doctors, nurses, laboratory and pharmacy staff, counselors, community linkage officers, and others
  • Fostering strong relationships with investigators, ensuring consistent communication throughout trials for smooth operations.
  • Ensuring protocol compliance by closely monitoring study activities and providing guidance to study staff.
  • Supporting regulatory submissions by preparing high-quality documents in line with industry standards and guidelines.
  • Improving data quality by establishing rigorous data management procedures and training staff on their implementation.
  • Increased patient enrollment by implementing effective recruitment strategies for clinical trials.
  • Enhanced patient safety by developing risk mitigation plans and closely monitoring adverse events during trials.
  • Leading efforts to increase patient retention rates, employing proactive engagement strategies tailored to individual participant needs.
  • Expediting trial timelines by proactively identifying potential bottlenecks and implementing solutions to address them effectively.
  • Complied with research protocols by providing ongoing quality control audits.
  • Optimizing budget management through diligent collaboration with the procurement and finance team to ensure efficient allocation of resources.

Consultant Qualitative Researcher

Sproutly Consulting Support Services
10.2021 - 01.2022
  • Developed data collection tools to conduct a global synthesis on the motion tracker approach for monitoring family planning
  • Conducted interviews with key stakeholders leading family planning projects from partner states across Africa and Asia

Graduate Research Assistant

Makerere University School of Public Health
09.2018 - 12.2021
  • Participated in different short-term research projects, including conceptualizing and designing research proposals, data collection, data entry and analysis, and report writing

Nursing Manager/Quality Assurance Coordinator

Roswell Women and Children's Hospital
03.2021 - 05.2021
  • Investigated and documented quality assurance incidents on staff and patients
  • Recruited, supervised, and coordinated nursing personnel
  • Developed patient care programs, policies, and procedures

Research Midwife

Baylor Foundation Uganda
02.2016 - 02.2018


  • Conducted study procedures including participant accrual, in line with the study protocol .
  • Reduced complications during childbirth with vigilant monitoring of maternal and fetal wellbeing throughout labor for study participants
  • Coordinated real time quality control study processes including review of source and Case report forms in line with the the P1115 study protocol and research QC guidelines. vital signs, checked for comfort levels and monitored emotional states of mothers before, during, and after labor.

Research Supervisor Midwife

MUJHU Researc Collaboration
05.2015 - 01.2016


• Coordinated a hospital-based Birth defect surveillance in a national referral hospital .
• Trained research midwives on the study protocol and SOPs
• Supervised a team of over 18 research midwives and nurses in compliance with project needs

Collaborated with stakeholders on project requirements.

Nursing Officer-midwife

Ministry of Health-Uganda, Naguru Hospital
02.2012 - 05.2015


• Provided comprehensive Maternal, newborn and childcare Healthcare including antenatal, immunization, family planning , postnatal care services.
• Monitored women in labour and ·conducted over 1,000 deliveries as the primary midwife, including managing abnormal ones like breech and multiple deliveries, never experiencing a maternal death on my work shift.
• Compassionately cared for newborns including resuscitating those born with asphyxia.

· Successfully lobbied for establishment of HIV testing services Naguru at the antenatal clinic

· I was in charge of training student doctors, nurses and midwives.
Often times participated in invigilating nurses and midwives practical examinations

Education

Master of Science - Health Services Research

Makerere University
Kampala-Uganda
04.2018 - 01.2022

Bachelor of Science - Public Health and Health Promotion

Uganda Martyrs University
Nkozi-Uganda
04.2015 - 01.2018

Diploma - Midwifery

Mulago School of Nursing And Midwifery
Kampala-Uganda
04.2007 - 01.2010

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education -

Wanyange Girls' School
Jinja-Uganda
01.2005 - 01.2006

Uganda Certificate of Education -

Our Lady of Good Counsel S.S.S
01.2001 - 01.2004

Skills

leadership skills

team collaboration

Self motivation

Adaptability and flexibility

Critical thinking

Excellent Problem-solving aptitude

Quality assurance

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Accomplishments

  • Accomplished a consultancy on a global synthesis on the motion tracker as a family planning accountability approach, 2021
  • Successfully led a research team in partnership with IDI to conduct a nutritional health assessment among the urban poor in Uganda (HEARD project), 2019
  • Recognition for most outstanding midwife by New Vision, 2015
  • Certificate of recognition: the most outstanding midwife at China-Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru, 2012

Affiliations

Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council, Registered member (holding a valid practicing license)

Additional Information

Achievements:
Masters thesis: Quality of newborn care at a national referral hospital in Uganda, amidst the covid-19 pandemic.
Accomplished a consultancy: a global synthesis on the motion tracker as a family planning accountability approach (2021).
- Successfully led a research team in partnership with IDI to conduct a nutritional health assessment among the urban poor in Uganda (HEARD project) (2019).
- Recognition for most outstanding midwife by New Vision (2015).
- Certificate of recognition: Most outstanding midwife at China-Uganda Friendship Hospital Naguru (2012)


Languages:
- English (Proficient user)
- German language (Basic user)

Interests

Reading biographies, watching documentaries, networking

Timeline

Clinical Trials Manager

Baylor Foundation-Uganda
01.2022 - Current

Consultant Qualitative Researcher

Sproutly Consulting Support Services
10.2021 - 01.2022

Nursing Manager/Quality Assurance Coordinator

Roswell Women and Children's Hospital
03.2021 - 05.2021

Graduate Research Assistant

Makerere University School of Public Health
09.2018 - 12.2021

Master of Science - Health Services Research

Makerere University
04.2018 - 01.2022

Research Midwife

Baylor Foundation Uganda
02.2016 - 02.2018

Research Supervisor Midwife

MUJHU Researc Collaboration
05.2015 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Science - Public Health and Health Promotion

Uganda Martyrs University
04.2015 - 01.2018

Nursing Officer-midwife

Ministry of Health-Uganda, Naguru Hospital
02.2012 - 05.2015

Diploma - Midwifery

Mulago School of Nursing And Midwifery
04.2007 - 01.2010

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education -

Wanyange Girls' School
01.2005 - 01.2006

Uganda Certificate of Education -

Our Lady of Good Counsel S.S.S
01.2001 - 01.2004
Resty Babirye OkelloHealth Researcher, Public Health Officer And Senior Midwife