Shanaz Banu Muhammed Sadique, Policy Analyst

Shanaz Banu Muhammed Sadique

Policy Analyst

Ministry of Public Health

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Laws (LLB)
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Policy Analyst at Ministry of Public Health
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since November 2014

- Policy formulation
- Quantitative analysis and interpretation
- Report writing
- Data collection, survey drafting
- Advice hierarchy

Contributed to the Qatar Health Report 2013, 2014; and SCH Annual Report 2014, 2015; and Reports to the Council of Ministers
http://nhsq.info/app/media/2941
http://nhsq.info/app/media/2178

Research Officer at Institute for Health Policy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka
  • June 2009 to September 2014

Profile statement
Experienced professional with key strengths in quantitative and qualitative research in development studies, economics and law. Accomplishments in, training staff, coordinating, managing and monitoring projects and team leadership. Motivated analytical thinker with effective communication skills.

Data Analysis
• Analyzing/interpreting large datasets such as Household surveys, consumer finance surveys, mortality data and health surveys etc.
• Analyzing both local and international quantitative and qualitative data.
• Using Econometrics for Socio-Economic Analysis. Building Econometric models, conducting OLS and Logistic regressions.


Data collection and database maintenance
• Designing and carrying out in-house surveys
• Conducting and moderating at focus group discussions. Conducting interviews with stakeholders.
• Cleaning data, designing and maintaining databases using excel and Stata


Report and publication writing
• Drafting project findings, technical reports, presentations, publications, journal articles and other documents for senior management and for publishing purposes. Compiling literature reviews and policy briefs.

Coordination and liaising with key stakeholders
• Coordinating and liaising with Government departments, local government authorities and International Organizations such as World Bank, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF etc., on a regular basis for clarification of project related issues or to maintain good will.
• Participating at policy discussions with these stakeholders.


Responsibilities Conducting training
• For junior staff and local and International Health Managers on key research projects, data collection methods and econometric methodologies used for the main analysis of the company.
• Capacity building, data dissemination and technical assistance
workshop for health managers


Project management
• Overseeing several key projects of the company.
• Managing resources and staff across the projects.
• Monitoring project spending against the project budgets


Other job related functions
• Organizing events and workshops on behalf of the company

Education

Bachelor's degree, Laws (LLB)
  • at University of London
  • August 2013
Master's degree, Economics
  • at University of Colombo
  • August 2013

Course modules include Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics and Development Economics

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at University of Colombo
  • May 2009

Course modules included Macro/Micro Economics, Econometrics, International Trade, International Finance, Public Economics, Mathematical Economics and Statistics

Specialties & Skills

Case Analysis
Academic Writing
Research
Statistical/ Econometrics analysis
Leadership and team management
Presentation and Report writing
Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
MS Office
Ubuntu platform
Macintosh platform
English language and communication skills
Windows platform
Capacity building
Data collection
Analysis
Data management
Research
Data collating
Organizing company events
Conducting workshops
Training professionals
Regressions
Econometrics

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Equity in Asia-Pacific Health Systems (Equitap)
  • Submit draft findings of research studies based on health financing done on Sri Lanka annually
  • June 2009
South Asian Economics Students’ Meet
  • Alumini
  • January 2007

Training and Certifications

Intermediate level of the Diploma in French (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2003
Valid Until:
June 2003
Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2010
Valid Until:
July 2010
Basics of Health Economics (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
April 2011
Data Analysis using SPSS (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Valid Until:
June 2008

Hobbies

  • Reading, learning new statistical software
    Presented a paper titled Food price hike and the impact on the poor and won the gold medal for the best paper at the 6th South Asian Economics Students' Meet held in Dhaka Bangladesh in 2009