layla Mohamed, Head of Planning, M&E, capacity building, Research and IHR

layla Mohamed

Head of Planning, M&E, capacity building, Research and IHR

Early Preparedness and Response Directorate - GD of Primary Health Care- Federal Ministry of Health

Location
Sudan - Khartoum
Education
Master's degree, Public and Tropical Health
Experience
6 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :6 years, 10 Months

Head of Planning, M&E, capacity building, Research and IHR at Early Preparedness and Response Directorate - GD of Primary Health Care- Federal Ministry of Health
  • Sudan
  • February 2012 to December 2013

 Planning for disease and outbreak control activities and secure funding.
 Continuous Follow up daily, weekly, monthly and annual unit activates in each section of this unit.
 Orient, train and supervise newly attached public health resident about the department activities.
 Presentation of plans and M&E reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual)

National focal point for influenza surveillance in nSudan at Early Preparedness and Response Directorate - GD of Primary Health Care- Federal Ministry of Health
  • Sudan
  • June 2012 to October 2013

 Continuous follow up for the surveillance activities at the 2sites
 Train the site‟s focal persons on SOPs
 Follow up of supplies(forms, stationeries and lab supplies)
 Regular Supervision to the selected sites
 Presentation of data weekly at the central level
 Follow up of data receiving, entry and send the data base monthly to WHO/EMRO
 Submission of monthly progress reports

Research Coordinator at Early Preparedness and Response Directorate - GD of Primary Health Care- Federal Ministry of Health
  • Sudan
  • January 2011 to February 2012

•Identifying research opportunities and contacting potential sponsors
•Negotiating budget and contract
•Completing regulatory documents
•Applying for institutional review board review
•Educating staff
•Providing continuing and final institutional review board reports.
•manages a variety of research studies
•maintains and updates databases and completes required documentation
•Ensures that all information is current and readily available for reporting purposes
•Responsible for timely collection and review of source documentation for entry into the database
•Responsible for data validation
•Provides support to staff on projects and maintains regulatory documents
•Acts as liaison between Investigators, IRB and grantor agencies
•Collect data and ensure updating and maintenance of databases for reporting purposes
•Validates data before input into system
•Provides support to Investigators Directors and other staff as requested making sure all data is entered in a timely manner for reporting purposes
•Organizes monitoring visits as requested
•Majority of time is spent entering data and ensuring database accuracy

Head of Surveillance Unit at Early Preparedness and Response Directorate - GD of Primary Health Care- Federal Ministry of Health
  • Sudan
  • September 2009 to December 2010

Planning for epidemiology department weekly, monthly and annual activates.
 Follow up activates according to the monthly and annual plan for the department
 Planning for communicable diseases surveillance system.
 Monitoring the surveillance system at central level for notifiable diseases to detect any abnormal health event or epidemics.
 Analyze and interpret epidemiological data reporting.
 Facilitate training of health professionals on public health surveillance and control
 Application Geographical Information system (Health mapper and Arc View)
 Strengthening the early warning system and the early for diseases outbreaks & planning for surveillance activities.
 Evaluating of surveillance system and communicable disease control interventions.

house officer at Minstry of health
  • Other
  • July 2004 to December 2006

medical rotations in :
Medicine
Surgery
Peadiatrics
ENT
Obs & Gayn
Orthopedics

Education

Master's degree, Public and Tropical Health
  • at University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum
  • October 2010

“Quality of maternal health care service “. The university of Medical Sciences and Technology, 2009. as a requirement for the graduation with the degree of M.Sc of Public and Tropical Health'

Bachelor's degree, Medicine and Surgery
  • at The university of Medical Sciences and Technology
  • December 2003

Academy‟s Prize in Graduation Research for having the highest marks during the final MB.Bs degree examinations. “Total Knee Replacement”, The university of Medical Sciences and Technology, 2003. as a requirement for the graduation with the degree of MB.Bs

Specialties & Skills

Research
Oversight
Health Sciences
Arc View
EPI Info
Statistical package for social studies (SPSS)
Proficient with Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Excel

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

4th workshop and training course (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO in Tehran- Iran
Date Attended:
June 2010
International Research Ethics workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
The Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI) at the University of Maryland, USA
Date Attended:
March 2012
Operational Research (Training)
Training Institute:
University of Washington
Date Attended:
March 2011
traning workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Federal Ministry of Heath in collaboration with Continuous professional development centre
Date Attended:
December 2009
Regional workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
WHO. Beirut- Lebanon
Date Attended:
October 2010
training Workshop (Training)
Training Institute:
Federal Ministry of Heath in collaboration with Continuous professional development centre
Date Attended:
January 2010
Research Ethics for Members of Research Ethics Committees (Training)
Training Institute:
The Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI) at University of Maryland
Date Attended:
March 2012
„Credited‟ training course" Epidemiology in Action (Training)
Training Institute:
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Date Attended:
July 2012
GIS Basic Training (Training)
Training Institute:
World Health Orgnaization, Sudan Office
Date Attended:
December 2010