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Ashis Brahma
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22 March 1971
Male
Dutch
Sporkenhoutlaan 8
2803 VK Gouda
the Netherlands
0031182535308 / 256 715560291
HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected]
HYPERLINK "http://www.pghf.org" www.pghf.org
Education
Diploma Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (UK, LSHTM)
2001-2002 Masters of Science Tropical Medicine International Health (London School
Hygiene Tropical Medicine)
My degree deals with a broad range of topics in the fields of Epidemiology, Public
Health, Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. My chosen topics included: Conflict and
Health, Current Issues in Safe Motherhood and Child health, Clinical Infectious disease
1 & 3, Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies and Immunology of Parasitic
Disease: Principles.
My Masters dissertation topic is treatment protocols for HIV and kala azar co-infected
patients in developing countries.
1999 Registration in the BIG register (Dutch Medical Practicioner
Register;
nr:
19050214301) www.bigregister.nl
1999 22 May Qualified as a Physician (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
equivalent to MBBS or MD
1999 22 March Qualified as doctorandus (VU)
1997-1999 Internships (Surgery, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, Neurology, Psychiatry, General Med, ENT, Ophthalmology, Social
Medicine, Oncology, Dermatology.
1991 31 August Propadeutisch Examen (VU, Amsterdam, Holland)
1989 Pharmacology Rijks Universiteit Groningen, Holland
1990 Medicine at Rijks Universiteit Centrum Antwerpen, Belgium
1989 Higher Secondary Christelijk Lyceum, Gouda, the Netherlands
Exams in Mathematics A and B, Economics, Chemistry, Science, English and Dutch
Employment
2008 March – November 2008 Tour to Mexico, Cuba, Colombia and Uganda to find
future partners, potential programs for PGHF
2008 January - 2008 April USA, Lecture tour (40 presentations about 3000 people)
Medical Faculties, Ivy League Schools, High Schools
2007 November-2008 January Chad, N’Djamena/Bebedja Director of NGO Africa
Vision, Hospital of Bebedja as Medical Officer, University of N’Djamena as Lecturer in
Public Health (Until unfortunate evacuation due to attack on N’Djamena)
2007 July – 2007 November: USA Public speaking tour on Darfur, Public Health in
Sudan (about 60 presentations for about 8000 people) Universities, churches, high
schools, STAND other groups (tv, radio and newspaper interviews as well)
2006 July – 2007 July: Chad, Bahai / Oure Cassoni refugee camp
Health manager responsible for public, clinical and reproductive health team of 8
national and 85 refugee staff in the camp with a population of 27000. Tasks including
yearly, monthly and weekly action plans, budget monitoring, UNHCR/WHO/donor
reporting, EPI, outbreak control, specific training program for midwives, TBA’s, nurses
and CHW, introduction of Standard Operational Procedures (e.g. Pharmacy Drug
Management System), clinical work (deliveries and under 1 clinic) in absence of
coordinator acting coordinator and managed the 20 bed Bahai hospital for 4 months
(ward rounds)
2004 November-2005 October: the Netherlands, Regional Public Health Department,
South Holland North, Leiden
Coordinating doctor for travel clinic (6 nurses, 3 locations), infectious disease doctor,
outbreak control (influenza), forensic medicine (on call)
2003 December- 2004 July: Ethiopia, Abdurafi
MSF-H MD Kala Azar/Malaria inpatient/outreach
Ward rounds, teaching, protocol development, drug ordering, reporting, kala azar active
case finding, hospital 75-150 patients, national staff (HRM): 10 medical assistants
2003 December: Uganda, Lira
MSF-H MD Setting up TFC/Pharmacy
2003 May-October: Sudan, Ghadaref State, Um El Kher,
MSF-H Medical Consultant for the Kala Azar Treatment Centre (200-500 patients
monthly), kala azar/other Supervision of GMTs, doctor and nurses, twice daily ICU
rounds and daily ward rounds, including a therapeutic feeding centre, drug ordering,
teaching all medical staff, monthly reporting, maintain and update treatment protocols
2002 December- 2003 March: Burundi, Ijenda
MSF-CH Medical doctor for 8 Public Health Units and 2 small hospitals (one MSF, one
MoH), high security project
Tasks: drug ordering and supply, teaching MSF protocols, consultant for all centres,
including complex obstetric cases, referral/transport of surgical cases (including
bullet/mine/machete wounds), monthly reporting
2001 January - June: Nepal: Sponsor-trek and Medical Educational and Peace
Organisation
Health camps in Kathmandu, as the Medical Officer, Banepa and the Gorkha district;
about 100 patients per day diagnosis and treatment education: teaching Village Health
Workers and teachers: basic hygiene, treatment of common illness, when to refer (WHO
IMCI)
2000 January – December: CINI, Child In Need Institute, Calcutta,India.
Setting up a database (base line) for the Adopt A Mother Program monitoring
neonatal mortality and morbidity. Maternal and child out door patient department as
Senior House Officer, about 150 children per day, (based on IMCI)
1999 September – December: Life Line Hospital, Kamalgazi, Calcutta, India
SHO in the paediatric ward/ A&E, 10 to 30 admissions per day, ranging from elective
surgery to malign malaria or tuberculosis
1999 June-August: At a malaria clinic in Central Calcutta, India, CENTROMAP, Centre
for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology,
thin and thick blood films, diagnosis and treatment of simple cases of malaria and
referral of malign malaria or high parasitaemia
Extra activities
2008
International Observer at the SPLM Conference in Juba
2008
Unite for Sight, Yale National Conference for Ophthalmology, Chicago
2007 IRC Workshops on project planning, monitoring and evaluation,
outbreak and media
2006-2007 Media: Radio Public Broadcasting Service/BBC The World, Nov. 2006,
Magazine Newsweek, February 2007 Television CBS 60 minutes
searching for Jacob 2006
2004
Participant at the Leishmaniasis East African Platform in Addis Abeba,
Ethiopia
2001 MSc TMIH class representative
2000 WHO, IMCI training, twice, participant/trainer
Flood relief in Murshidabad, West Bengal India
1999 Presentation on perinatal audit (written), Royal Dutch Academy of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Congress)
1998 First AID classes as an instructor
1997 Research in Pathology: Quantitative Morphometry of Mesothelioma
(AZVU)
1991-1994 Class representative, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
1990-2007 Attended at least one Conference a Year: main topics:
HIV, Paediatrics, Tropical Medicine (2005 Marseille last)
Additional skills
Spoken/written languages: English, Dutch, French, German (fluently), Bengali, Arab,
Spanish (basic)
General Medical Council registration: 6037735, Driving license 1989
Typing diploma 1986
Computer literate: Word, Excel, GIS, Arcview 3.1, SPSS 10, Epi-info.
Security: VHF and HF experience, daily security briefings, worked in war zones
Aims
Short term: Serve Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation as Chief Medical Medical
Officer - International Missions; teach Public Health, write books
Medium term: Expand PGHF
Long term: Teach, write and lecture tours globally
Leisure Activities
PADI Advanced open water scuba diving, Trekking (Himalayas), Literature, Cooking,
Writing (Utmost to be published March, 2009)