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This Expert's name is Ali Ben Charif, PhD

This Expert's occupation is Health Systems Expert
This Expert's location is Canada
This Expert's nationality is Comoran

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Snapshot

Experience

10+ years

Languages

Arabic, English, French, Swahili

Countries of Work

Botswana, Canada, Comoros, Congo, France, Senegal

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Health technology assessment
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Change management
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Civil registration and vital statistics
  • Claims management systems
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Scaling innovations
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • NTDs
  • Tuberculosis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Policy analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Health management
  • Integration nutrition services into routine health systems
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • PHC
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health

Professional Experience

  • World Health Organization

    Mar 2020 - Present
    Consultant in Health Information Systems

  • Laval University

    May 2016 - Sep 2021
    Postdoctoral researcher is implementation science, knowledge translation, knowledge mobilization, patient-oriented scaling up, community-based primary health care.

Education

  • Aix Marseille University

    Graduated 2016
    PhD in Public Health

  • Aix Marseille University

    Graduated 2012
    MSc in Applied Mathematics for Social Sciences

  • Cheikh Anta Dion University

    Graduated 2010
    BSc in Mathematics

Publications

  • Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards UHC in Africa

    Published Nov 2022 View publication

  • Tools for assessing the scalability of innovations in health: a systematic review

    Published Sep 2022 View publication

  • Assessment of scalability of evidence-based innovations in community-based primary health care

    Published Nov 2018 View publication

  • Effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care: a systematic review

    Published Nov 2017 View publication

  • Satisfaction with fertility- and sexuality-related information in young women with breast cancer

    Published Aug 2015 View publication

Affiliations

CubecXpert, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Health technology assessment
  • Training
  • Civil society engagement
  • Community health boards
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Health coverage schemes
  • Change management
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Civil registration and vital statistics
  • Claims management systems
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Preparedness for public health emergencies
  • Surveillance
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Scaling innovations
  • Data collection methodology
  • Indicator development
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Malaria
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • NTDs
  • Tuberculosis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Equity analysis
  • Policy analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Health management
  • Integration nutrition services into routine health systems
  • Licensing and accreditation
  • PHC
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health

Affiliations

CubecXpert, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada