Amira Amer, Nutrition coordinator

Amira Amer

Nutrition coordinator

UNICEF

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
7 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :7 years, 6 Months

Nutrition coordinator at UNICEF
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2016 to July 2016

One of the panels selected to participate in a nutrition health need assessment of
women and children in rural Egypt.
o Help to draft the action plan aimed at tackling the underreporting of stunting
prevalence rate of under5 children in Egypt.
● Freelancer trainer: Healthcare management. (Paid & unpaid).
● Central administration of Helwan Health.

Verification Officer at UNICEF
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2016 to May 2016

I participated in drafting and refining the tool used to conduct the baseline assessment
of the healthcare quality improvement project (HQIP). It is a national project through a
partnership between The World Bank and The Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOHP) that
aims to raise the quality of primary health care services at 1000 primary health care
facilities at 3 phases.
o Internal validity check for the drafted tool by MOOC field audits. ( we were 2 verifiers).
o Baseline assessment. I was in charge of data collection by planned field audits of a
sample of the participating health facilities. ( Team of 5 verification officers) I
participated in 23% of the total number of field visits.

Field Consultant at UNICEF
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2014 to March 2016

Integrated perinatal child health and nutrition program, IPHN aims at reducing
neonatal mortality and chronic malnutrition of less than 5-year children through an integrated
package of perinatal services.
A. Management and Supervision Support (40% of the time)
o Support the local health teams (Directorate, District, and FHUs) to develop monthly
plans for the program activities.
o Participate in the Governorate Committee meetings, and actively share in its activities
to make sure that the committees are well functioning and meet regularly.
o Help district teams to follow up the Performance Indicators (PIs) of concerned FHUs
and to report regularly on their performance, using data analysis for
actions/decisions support at various levels.
o Report on Program activities and results on monthly basis and communicate reports
with UNICEF office and to the Director General (DG) and senior health team in the
respective governorates
o Undertake monthly visits to a sample of the health facilities in the concerned
governorate to follow up the implementation of the Program activities
o Support FHUs’ team to monitor their performance and support them conducting a
monthly meeting between physicians, nurses, CHWs to discuss PIs.
B. Technical Support (40%)
C. Coordination and Documentation Support (20%).

Manager of General Directorate at MOHP
  • March 2013 to July 2014
Floor Manager at New Kasr Al-Aini Teaching Hospital
  • September 2013 to February 2014
Quality officer and training officer at Main Blood bank
  • January 2009 to January 2010

Alpha Laboratory ( branch manager 2008)

Night manager at Ministry Of Health
  • Egypt
  • January 2006 to January 2010
Field Consultant
  • to

Neonatal and Postnatal surveillance system.

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at University of Portland Oregon
  • January 2012

courses: Egyptian fellowship Board, Cairo, Egypt. (2014) Certified professional trainer (TOT).

Master's degree,
  • at University of Portland Oregon
  • January 2012

courses: Egyptian fellowship Board, Cairo, Egypt. (2014) Certified professional trainer (TOT).

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Cairo University
  • January 2004

courses: Egyptian fellowship Board (Hospital Management) Cairo, Egypt (2009) First Part of hospital management Egyptian fellowship board.

Master's degree,
  • at University of Sheffield

of public health (management and leadership).

Master's degree,
  • at University of Gothenburg

health with health economics (2017-2019)

Specialties & Skills

Health Care Management
Management
Quality Auditing
Training
Hospital Management
DATA ANALYSIS
DOCUMENTATION
MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR
MEETING FACILITATION
MICROSOFT OFFICE
SUPERVISORY SKILLS
TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Languages

Swedish
Beginner
Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert