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This Expert's name is Mandy Govender

This Expert's occupation is Public Health and Digital Health Expert
This Expert's location is Switzerland
This Expert's nationality is South African

Snapshot

Experience

15+ years

Languages

Afrikaans, English

Countries of Work

Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Resource allocation
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • 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
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Tuberculosis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • 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
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Media engagement
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Procurement

Professional Experience

  • I-DAIR

    Aug 2020 - Present
    Engagement and Sustainability Lead Consultant
    Aug 2020 to Current

    Leading collaboration agreements with institutional partners. Working with stakeholders such as governments, foundations, civil society, private sector, and international organisations (e.g., WHO) to ensure the right participation geometry at launch. In charge of external communications, events, media, outcome reports / messaging. Managing stakeholder mapping of existing partners across the globe engaged in AI and digital health ventures. Lead for regional qualitative consultations feeding into Global Research Map and the 2022 launch of I-DAIR www.i-dair.org.
  • Jembi Health Systems

    May 2018 - Jun 2019
    Senior Programme Manager: Jembi Health Systems South Africa
    May 2018 to June 2019

    Responsibilities included multiple programme areas, with a focus on those critical to supporting the South African National Department of Health’s digital health strategy i.e., Electronic health records to allow for continued care across healthcare facilities, with a focus increasing the accuracy of the national 90-90-90 HIV Report.

    The programme is funded by the Digital Square (USAID-USG) initiative. The client is the South African National Department of Health. The prime is PATH.
  • Singapore Health Promotion Board under the Ministry of Health Singapore Government

    Apr 2009 - Mar 2015
    Two posts held

    1. Deputy Director of Communicable Diseases
    This post focused on the management of the spread of HIV, TB, and Flu across the island, with a focus on detection and prevention. Regular reports on our progress would be shared and presented at the Ministerial Committee on HIV/AIDS, headed by the Minister of Health. We also worked with the Ministry of Labour etc.
    2. Deputy Director of Regional Health Systems Engagement
    Ensure that the Board achieved the 2020 goals set for high priority non-communicable diseases (within the community setting) across Singapore. covered increasing chronic disease screening and follow up, in relation to those diseases identified as priorities.

Education

  • University of the Western Cape

    Graduated 2021
    Masters in Public Health
  • University of KwaZulu Natal

    Graduated 2007
    Masters in Business Admin
  • University of Cape Town

    Graduated 1997
    Bachelor Degree Social Sciences

Areas of Expertise

  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Social participation and health communication
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Contracting health providers
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Resource allocation
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health management information systems
  • Health-related surveys
  • Behavior and health literacy
  • Disease prevention
  • Health promotion
  • Health protection
  • 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
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Indicator development
  • Knowledge management software
  • Performance management plans
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Results and logical frameworks
  • Family planning
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Maternal, newborn and child health
  • Non-communicable diseases
  • Tuberculosis
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • 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
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Media engagement
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Procurement