Hamza Hasan , Public health Officer

Hamza Hasan

Public health Officer

World Health Organization WHO

Location
Syria - Damascus
Education
Master's degree, medical education
Experience
13 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months

Public health Officer at World Health Organization WHO
  • Syria
  • My current job since March 2018

⦁ Coordinate technical activities within area of jurisdiction
⦁ Lead health sector coordination meetings and activities and follow up with the authorities and all the effective and concerned health players on the ground.
⦁ Follow up and monitor IDPs movement, raising heath needs, outbreak of CDs, vaccination coverage in the area.
⦁ Conduct regular monitoring and assessment field visits to identify health needs in high-risk areas in terms of vulnerability and accessibility to health services and asses existing health facilities (hospitals, PHCs, NGOs )
⦁ Strengthen WHO EPI vaccinating program, with collaboration with local authorities, supervise national and routine vaccination campaigns.
⦁ Strengthen surveillance system, under EWARS program, ensure complete reporting in all sentinel sites, maintain effective and rapid response to health threats and disease outbreaks.
⦁ Prepare quarterly/ biannual work plans for HUB in close collaboration with technical leads. Provide a smooth operational and technical workflow plan to transport and distribute medical health supplies within the coastal area. .
⦁ Coordinate with health partners (agencies, NGOs, INGOs, ) and local authorities on regular basis to keeps updates on security control and accessibility levels, in order to estimate future distribution plans and ensure WHO supplies are geographically covering all IDPs PiN areas.
⦁ Track IDPs movements in collaboration with local authorities and ensure a continuous delivery of medical health supplies is maintained.
⦁ Strengthen health information system, by coordinating with all health providers and developing regular health updates reports.
⦁ Strengthen capacities of STHC & PHC HFs (provision of essential health supplies)
⦁ Support the implementation of MHPSS program (consultations, group discussions, community awareness, capacity buildings and referral )
⦁ Represent WHO in Coordination meetings (A/HCT, ASMT, IA/IS coordination meetings …) Serve as Focal point for the health cluster at sub-national level.
⦁ Follow up on training capacities for health and community workers, ensure a plan is in place for continuous capacity building activities.
⦁ Approve financial commitments within delegated authority (as per impress limit. Review and approve internal memos for WCO action.
⦁ . Review and forward technical and financial requests from team/partners to WCO.
⦁ Serve as first signatory for cash count. Serve as technical focal point for providing technical reports for direct disbursement activities and endorsing report
⦁ Supervise WHO central warehouse in Syria, in Latakia (stock movement, storage conditions, clearance procedures, shipping process)

Logistics Officer at World Health Organizaiton
  • Syria - Damascus
  • January 2016 to March 2018

⦁ Operational fleet management over the sub-office and its warehouse, ensure warehouse set up is suitable for medical storage in terms of safety and security, stock management and technical monitoring on the stock storage condition (special control on cold chain storage and storage of hallucinated and psychotropic medicines).
⦁ Manage stock actions and the stock report. Conduct technical check and supervise the dispatching procedures of shipments.
⦁ Track incoming shipments and liaise with the clearance agent and local authorities the status of approvals.
⦁ Monitor the delivery process of medical items to the warehouse in terms of regulations
⦁ Provide a smooth operational and technical plan to transport and distribute medical health supplies within the area of responsibility.
⦁ Track incoming shipments and liaise with the clearance agent and local authorities the status of approvals.
⦁ Monitor the delivery process of medical items to the warehouse in terms of regulations.
⦁ Conduct physical and technical checks on the received medical items and compare the received items in terms of specifications and quantities against the purchased order and shipping documents.
⦁ Overall management of the warehouse ( set up, storage, operation, and security systems )
⦁ Responsible for storing the sensitive and critical items and ensuring the optimum storing conditions are met.
⦁ Conduct regular checks over the stock and monitor the storing conditions of the medical items in the warehouse from the physical states to the expiry dates and quantities. And report the situation to the management in the main office.
⦁ Run the operation area and ensure a smooth process of in and out movements are being executed probably.
⦁ In collaboration with the logistic team in the main office, carry out the dispatching procedure and distribution process to the desired destinations.
⦁ Report to the main office on the daily operation movements.
⦁ Identify the local needs by conducting field visits to the hospitals and NGOs in order to fill the health gap and identify priorities according to the public needs

Medical Coordinator at Syrian Arab Red Crescent
  • Syria - Damascus
  • February 2012 to September 2015

⦁ Develop distribution plans to deliver health items to SARC clinics

⦁ Communicate with the pharmacists in all SARC clinics and collect reports for current stock conditions and health needs

⦁ Develop reports on all the beneficiaries who are getting free health services at SARC clinics, contact details, diseases, medicines received etc and hence estimating the consumption of medicines accordingly, in order to establish a procurement plan.

⦁ Conduct field visits to the health clinics and get feedback on the health condition, suggest improvements on the delivery of health services, and ensure all the health teams are following the procedures under SARC regulations.

⦁ Conduct regular check on SARC main medical warehouse and ensure the medical items are being stored and distributed probably.

⦁ Facilitate all the hanging documents between SARC and MOH, follow up the approval needed by MOH in order to conduct the distribution process of the medical items.

⦁ Participate in several workshops and trainings.

Sales Manager at Pharmacy
  • Syria - Damascus
  • June 2010 to June 2012

- sales Manager at several pharmacies

Education

Master's degree, medical education
  • at Syrian Virtual University
  • December 2024
Master's degree, Public Health
  • at Brunel University of London
  • January 2023
Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Syrian Arab University
  • April 2021
Bachelor's degree, Pharmacy
  • at Arab International University
  • March 2011

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Supply Chain Management
Health Safety and Environmental HSE Management
Healthcare Management
Public Health
COORDINATING
COMPUTER SKILLS
OPERATIONS
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
TEAMWORK
QUALITY, HEALTH, SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT
MEDICAL EDUCAITON
COMMUNITY HEAKTH
DEVELOPMENT
CREATIVITY
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
MARKETING
RESEARCH
GLOBAL HEALTH
MANAGMENT
PROBLEM SOLVING
LEADERSHIP
LOGISTICS
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
ADMINSTRATION
PUBLIC RELATION
PARTNER ENGAGGMENT
RESOURCE MOBILIZATION
EDPIDEMIOLOGY
EMERGENCY MANAGMENT
EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE
HEALTH PROGRAMS

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
French
Beginner
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Workshop on International Humanitarian Law (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Operation service & Logistics OSL (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Strengthening Pharmaceutical supply chain management (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Leadership & incident management training. (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Cybersecurity (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse PSEA (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Strengthening the Global Architecture for Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Health Cluster leadership and coordination (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
EPI Review (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
TOT RRTs & Surveillance (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Resource Mobilization & Donor’s approach (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Interventions for Noncommunicable Diseases in Primary Health Care (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Response Preparedness for Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks/ One-Health Approach (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
IPC and environmental cleaning for health care facilities in low-and-middle-income countries (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
TOT Establishing Emergency Operation Public Health Centers PHEOC. (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Introduction to Health Sector Emergency Response Management (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Basic Emergency Care: Conflict Related injuries (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Health Emergency Readiness for Response Operations. (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Managing Conflict of Interest in National Pharmaceutical Systems (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Air pollution and health: an introduction for health workers (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Incident Management system (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Global Health Cluster (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO
Date Attended:
January 2024
Project Manager Professional Certificate PMP (Certificate)
Leadership incident management training (Certificate)
WHO Simulation Exercise Management Training Course (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Traveling
  • Swimming
  • Boxing
  • Bodybuilding
  • Web Surfing