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Currently Health Sector Global Advisor at ECHO, http://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgecastillaechenique MD, MScPH. 25+ yrs medical humanitarian assistance experience with MoH, WHO, ECHO, MSF.

Experience includes:

General Physician in a Colombian rural hospital, District health director in Colombia, regional director of epidemiology in Colombia with the MoH. Project coordinator of a medical primary health care project in Sudan. Country medical coordinator for 8 humanitarian projects in Sudan. Project coordinator for a sleeping sickness program in Uganda including several scientific publications on the subject. Country manager for humanitarian medical programs in Uganda and Zaire, reception of arriving refugees (Rwandese, Zairian, Ugandan and Sudanese, arriving to Uganda or Zaire), handling of epidemics of cholera, meningitis and measles. Country manager for humanitarian medical programs in Mozambique. Consultant in public Health with Aedes and Epicentre. Director of Operations for the overall projects of an humanitarian medical private association, Médecins Sans Frontières. For two and a half years, International Training Co-ordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières. Regional Medical Coordinator, ECHO West Africa, during 4 years: conflict, post-conflict, refugee, epidemic and nutritional projects in 17 countries. ECHO focal point for Malaria and Epidemics. Edition of WHO guidelines and training material for pandemic flu preparedness and mitigation in refugee settings. Displaced and refugee populations health manager in Colombian and neighbouring countries as well as for emergencies and disasters program with PAHO/WHO, including management of field offices in places of acute displacement and health cluster lead HCC in the humanitarian reform. HCC in 02/2010 for Haiti Earthquake. Currently Health Advisor at ECHO in charge of policy, partner network and health support to mayor crisis.

Master in public health MScPH, attempt of a PhD cutted short :o( Public Health PreDeployment course and several short courses and diplomas on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, including those offered by Epicentre. I speak fluently English, French and Spanish and have a basic level of other languages including Arabic and Portuguese. I have worked with the MoH, WHO, ECHO, MSF. I am familiar with a wide variety of emergency settings (conflict, natural disaster, famine, epidemics.) in several continents.