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EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE SERVICE OFFICER

Professional Summary

Skilled medical doctor and public health professional with over 10 years of progressive and extensive experience in global health including epidemiology, operational research, and implementation of maternal and child health evidence-based interventions in resource-limited settings. Health surveillance officer, vaccine-preventable disease and malaria specialist with proven leadership and teamwork skills.

Education and Training

2006

Master of Science: Public Health University of Kinshasa, School of Public Health － KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo

2003

M.D.: General MedicineUniversity of Kinshasa, School of Medicine － KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo

Skill Highlights

Effectively influences others
Claims analysis and review specialist
Critical thinking proficiency
Relationship and team building

Public health and epidemiology principles and processes
Fluent in French
Staff training and development

Professional Experience

07/2015 to Current

Epidemic Intelligence Service OfficerU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) － Atlanta, GA

Conduct or participate in field investigations of potentially serious public health problem;
Design, conduct, and interpret epidemiologic analysis;
Evaluate public health surveillance systems; provide service to the agency.

08/2012 to 06/2015

Malaria Program Management SpecialistUnited States Agency for International Development (USAID) － Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Working within the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) in D.R. Congo to assist the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) scaling up a package of malaria prevention and treatment measures in all 1,432 health facilities within 70 targeted health zones in four provinces (East and West Kasai, South Kivu, and Katanga).
Develop or expand and implement medical programs or health services that promote research, rehabilitation, and community health.
Review and analyze health facility activities and data to aid planning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.

07/2011 to 08/2012

Malaria Technical AdvisorManagement Sciences for Health (MSH) － Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordinate field implementation of PMI - malaria prevention and treatment measures in all 1,432 health facilities within 70 targeted health zones.
Review and analyze facility activities and data to aidplanning and cash and risk management and to improve service utilization.
Plan, implement and administer programs and services in a health care or medical facility, including personnel administration, training, and coordination of medical, nursing and physical plant staff.
Prepare activity reports to inform management of the status and implementation plans of programs, services, and quality initiatives.
Ensure supervision and training of health workers and professional on malaria prevention and treatment; commodities management; monitoring and evaluation.

07/2009 to 05/2011

Malaria Community Case Management Project CoordinatorAssociation de Santé Familiale (ASF) － Gemena, Equateur, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordinate malaria activities within an integrated community case management strategy by expanding the provision of diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria services to children less than 5 years in > 400 hard-to-reach villages in Sud Ubangi District.
Coordinate the implementation of community-based management of malaria with ACTs by ensuring quality assurance and observance of timing.
Oversee the development of a training plan and facilitate capacity building of care providers; Ensure the monitoring and supervision of distribution of ACTs, Zinc-ORS and Co-trimoxazole at the community case management sites.

11/2008 to 07/2009

Co-investigator, Researcher and Field Study CoordinatorKinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) － Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Conduct in selected isolated communities, a pilot feasibility and acceptability of the use of artesunate-amodiaquine and rapid diagnostic test in home-based management of malaria in the DRC to inform national policy and program strategies. Goal: To improve access to effective treatment and adequate diagnosis, in order to influence policy.
Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings. Perform study using qualitative and quantitative data. Utilized EpiInfo and SPSS to compile, to analyze and to produce results.
Ensure training of Community Health Workers (CHWs) to use pre-packaged artesunate-amodiaquine to treat uncomplicated malaria, perform rapid diagnosis test (RDT) for patients > 5 years and refer severe and non-malaria cases.
Ensure that CHW provides treatment based on presumptive clinical diagnosis for children 6 - 59 months and on a positive RDT result for patients aged over 5 years.

11/2006 to 06/2015

Teaching Assistant and ResearcherKinshasa School of Public Health － Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Prepare and deliver lectures to Master of Public Health (MPH) students on topics such as disease control, disease outbreak response, global maternal and child health and malaria program management.
Prepare disease control course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
Conduct research in a malaria and disease control field and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
Develop and conduct operational researches and malaria indicators surveys (MIS) to inform the national policy.

11/2006 to 10/2008

Medical Coordinator - Project AXxes South Kivu ProvinceCatholic Relief Services (CRS) － Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordinate implementation of health activities of Project AXxes Project at South Kivu Province. Project AXxes, a large USAID-funded health systems strengthening and service delivery program targeting eight million people in post-conflict areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The main objective was to improve the availability, quality, and capacity of overall health care in 57 rural health zones adversely affected by years of civil war, neglect, and relative isolation.
Coordinate implementation of package of primary health care (PHC) interventions) in South health zones of Sud Kivu Province; including reinforcement of vaccination services, provision of pharmaceuticals and supplies to hospitals and health centers, delivery of a full complement of maternal and child health services including family planning, and newborn and postpartum care.
Provide technical assistance in the area of planning, implementation and evaluation of project activities and monitor monthly progress through the project key indicators including control disease, surveillance, operational research, etc.
Supervise supported health zones at least once a month and prepare a report which reports the progress and weaknesses to bring actions to correct.

Accomplishments

CDC Honor Award Certificate for outstanding support and leadership in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, 2014–2015. CDC/NCEZID, March 24th, 2016; and CDC Certificate of Appreciation, in appreciation of my selfless contributions and willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director. 2015

Cash Performance Awards for incredible leadership, teamwork, and dedication to expand access to essential malaria services to 35% of the Congolese populations; and for outstanding contributions to implement the U.S. President's Malaria initiative (PMI) and save lives. U.S. Embassy Kinshasa, June and December 2014

USAID Meritorious Services Award: Scaling up a package of malaria prevention and treatment measures in all 1,432 health facilities within 70 targeted health zones in four provinces (East and West Kasai, South Kivu, and Katanga). Meritorious Services Award of Okapi Order–Rank: Chevalier-Knight. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Democratic Republic of Congo, June 2015

As Malaria Technical Advisor with MSH and USAID, key contributor: - Two millions mosquito bed nets distributes and 1.5 million intermittent preventive treatment to pregnant women; - Over 9.2 million antimalarial treatment treatments, 3.9 million rapid diagnostic test performed, and over 5,000 health workers trained

As Project Coordinator: Over 500 community care sites established for an integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness ( malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia)

As Co-investigator and field coordinator: Led the first pilot feasibility study of the use of antimalarial drugs and rapid diagnosis test at the (hard-to-reach) community level in D.R. Congo. Findings from this study guide the national integrated community case management of childhood illnesses. To date, up to 1,500 community care sites are implementing this effective strategy and saving lives

As Teaching Assistant at Kinshasa School of Public Health: Mentored over 100 medical and public health students. They were from all provinces and working actually to improve Congolese populations' health at different levels of the health system

As one of the Project AXxes Provincial Medical Coordinators - contributor: 818,368 children vaccinated for measles; cumulative training of more than 33,000 health workers at all levels; 849,306 new acceptors of a new method in family planning; Prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission in 983 HIV positive women; 618,500 women received assisted delivery with Active Management of the Third Stage of Labor (AMSTL) protocol

As Deputy Medical Project Director in Popokabaka, DR Congo: Effective treatment of sexual transmitted diseases and HIV prevention program established in over 50 health facilities and schools. Over 1,000 health providers and school peer-educators trained on HIV and STD treatment and prevention.

Publications

Mukadi P, Gillet P, Lukuka A, Mbatshi J, Otshudiema J, et al.(2013) External Quality Assessment of Reading and Interpretation of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests among 1849 End-Users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Short Message Services (SMS) . PLos One 8(8) : e71442.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071442
Pierre Mukadi, Veerle Leion, Albert Lukuka, Joêl Mbatshi, John Otshudiema, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Philippe Gillet and Jan Jacobs .SMS based external quality assessment of reading and interpretation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests: Preliminary results among more than 2000 end-users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Malaria Journal 2012, 11(Suppl 1):P65 doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-11-S1-P65
John O. Otshudiema, Philippe N. Lukanu, Albert K. Lukuka, Marie A. Onyamboko, Jean Destin N. Nlandu, Jack H. Kokolomami, Antoinette K. Tshefu. Feasibility and acceptability of the use of artesunate-amodiaquine and rapid diagnostic test in home-based management of malaria: Democratic Republic of Congo's pilot study. Late-Breaker Abstracts -Oral Presentation. 5th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference. 2-6 November 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
Otshudiema, J. O.; Shamavu, R. R.; Masimango, M. I.; Burhole, M. M.; Kabongo, M.; Kokolomami, J. Epidémie de choléra à Bukavu (R.D.Congo) de 2006-2007: données épidémiologiques et de contrôle. Ann Afr Med 2010; 3 (1) 355-363. (Annales Africaines de Médecine. Université de Kinshasa, Faculté de Médecine, 2009
Joris Losimba Likwela, John Otshudiema Otokoye. Quantification des besoins en intrants antipaludiques: contribution à l'actualisation des hypothèses pour la quantification des intrants de prise en charge des cas de paludisme grave en République Démocratique du Congo. Pan Afr Med J. 2015;20:94. doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.20.94.4514
John Otshudiema, Narcisse Embeke, Filiberto Hernandez, Jose Tchofa, Clarisse Mbo, Francois-Xavier Mwema. Scaling-up malaria rapid diagnostic tests and artemisinin-based combination therapy into integrated community case management sites: Results from two remote and low-resource settings in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ASTMH 62nd Annual Meeting. Poster Presentation Number: 1255. Poster Session C. Saturday, November 16, 2013. Washington DC. USA
John O Otshudiema, MD, MPH, Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Disease Branch. NCIRD, CDC. Risk Factors for Meningococcal Disease Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Boston—Massachusetts, 2016. CDC Tuesday Morning Seminar (TMS), January 31, 2017. Global Communications center, Langmuir Auditorium A, CDC Roybal Campus. Atlanta, GA. (Oral Presentation, manuscript in development)
John O Otshudiema, et al. Yellow Fever Outbreak in Kongo Central Province―Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2016−Presentation. CDC Yellow Fever Response. (manuscript in development)
John O Otshudiema, Tiwari Tej., et al. Respiratory Diphtheria and Use of Diphtheria Antitoxin in the United States, 1995–2015. NCIRD/DBD/MVPDB, CDC. (manuscript in development)
John O Otshudiema, et al. Adverse Events Following Mass Yellow Fever Immunization Campaign in Kongo Central Province ― Democratic Republic of the Congo, September 2016. ( Cleared manuscript submitted to CDC MMWR Weekly, February 2017)

Languages

Fluent in French , Excellent working knowledge of English (oral and written)

Skills

MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, SAS, SPSS, EpiInfo ,Epidata and Internet applications

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
Association de Santé Familiale (ASF)
Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH)
Kinshasa School of Public Health
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

School Attended

University of Kinshasa, School of Public Health
University of Kinshasa, School of Medicine

Job Titles Held:

Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer
Malaria Program Management Specialist
Malaria Technical Advisor
Malaria Community Case Management Project Coordinator
Co-investigator, Researcher and Field Study Coordinator
Teaching Assistant and Researcher
Medical Coordinator - Project AXxes South Kivu Province

Degrees

Master of Science : Public Health
M.D. : General Medicine

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