JA

This Expert's name is James Allen

Snapshot

Experience

10+ years

Languages

English, French, Spanish

Countries of Work

Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, People's Republic of, Colombia, France, Gabon, Georgia, Guyana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam

Areas of Expertise

  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Innovative financing
  • Pay for performance
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Health management information systems
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • Immunization
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Innovation ecosystem strengthening
  • Innovator engagement and support
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Performance management plans
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Tuberculosis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Medical audit
  • PHC
  • Service delivery networks
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Cold chain
Leadership training for managers

Professional Experience

  • Lifeguard Health Networks and MyC Med Tech (separate organizations)

    Sep 2021 - Present
    Lifeguard: As medical advisor, provide practical clinical insights and support to homecare health team mobile software platform.
    https://lifeguardnetworks.com
    MyC: As senior advisor, advise software platform for administrative control of mobile populations needing timely health status data.
    https://myc.doctor
  • Health Systems Thinkers, LLC

    Apr 2021 - Present
    I created this international consultancy to guide corporate and donor investments in community health through data-driven methodology with stakeholder input and decision-making tools; investing in and bb measuring what matters most for community health and well-being.
    https://healthsystemsthinkers.com
  • Chevron Energy Technology Company

    Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
    Senior Consulting Health Scientist
    Created global integrated health strategy to demonstrate positive effects of responsible energy development.
    • Partnered with Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), securing approval to redesign health system of Cabinda province, Angola.
    • Chaired Occupational Health Standards Committee for hazardous substances.
    • Advised Global Emergency Response Committee on COVID-19.
    • Relocated to Angola to lead COVID response for industry consortium of Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Total Energies, ENI, Sun Oil and SONANGOL during global pandemic, established and staffed 40 and 80-bed hospitals with 6 fully equipped intensive care units each.

Education

  • A.T. Still University (Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine)

    Graduated 1983
    D.O., Osteopathic Medicine
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Graduated 1978
    M.S., Technical Writing
  • Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH

    Graduated 1976
    B.A., World Literature and Pre-Medical

Areas of Expertise

  • Priority-setting
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Process facilitation
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Innovative financing
  • Pay for performance
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Change management
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Health management information systems
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • Immunization
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Innovation ecosystem strengthening
  • Innovator engagement and support
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Performance management plans
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Tuberculosis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Root cause analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • Health management
  • Medical audit
  • PHC
  • Service delivery networks
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Cold chain
Leadership training for managers