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Amal Shafik

Email :ad3vgh@r.postjobfree.com Current Address: 46, Nehro st-Heliopolis-Meryland –Cairo-Egypt Mobile : 002-01018606096

Education

The University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Public health, Heidelberg, Germany. Doctor of Human Science ( Dr.Sc.Hum) In Health Economics with a Magna cum Laude The impact of community health insurance schemes on household expenditures, catastrophic health expenditures and poverty. The thesis is Focusing on the economic impact of a community health insurance in Africa, mainly in Burkina Faso and the impact of health expenditures on households.

The analysis was performed on households’ survey data in Nouna for three consecutive years.

The methodology was combining econometric modeling techniques and qualitative tools.

The qualitative arm of the research was to investigate household perceptions and coping strategies regarding health expenditures.

The research project is conjured with the Institute of tropical medicine and hygiene in Germany and the Centre de Recherches in Burkina Faso.

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Berkeley, University of California, U.S.A.

Master of Public Health

Maternal and Child Health (MPH) Berkeley 1995.Thesis

“ Female genital mutilation in Egypt and other countries”

Specialized program in Maternal and Child Health.

The program covered courses in Epidemiology, mass Communication in Public Health, Health statistics, Children with special needs and Health informatics. The University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany. Master of Science in health management

Community Health and Health Management in developing Countries (MSc, Heidelberg) Women reproductive health in Egypt- Thesis:

“ Women perceptions of menorhea”

The program was a specialized program in management, project design and evaluation, and training specifically community training on health issues, the program focused on skills and training techniques, the courses covered by the program were, Project design and evaluation, Training methodology and Research methodology both qualitative and quantitative, Statistics, and Epidemiology.

The course work was followed by a thesis, of a 150 pages as a result of an original qualitative field research in a developing country, Egypt.

The thesis title was “ Pain, Health and Honor” Experience of menstrual bleeding of women at different age groups, education levels and economic levels in an Egyptian context. LSE – London School of Economics, London UK.

Graduate Diploma in Economics.(In progress)

The graduate diploma is a specialization in economics in general .The program includes several units, a microeconomic unit, macroeconomics unit and an econometrics unit. (Expected)

The different economics units examine how economic decisions are made by households and firms, and how they interact to determine the quantities and prices of goods and factors of production and the allocation of 2

resources. It also investigates the principles of microeconomic and macroeconomic policies and the role of government in allocating resources.

The Econometric unit main objective is to help student to develop an understanding of the use of regression analysis and related techniques for quantifying economic relationships and testing economic theories. . And To provide students with practical experience of using mainstream regression programs to fit economic models The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.

Health Care Administration.

Health program, 1993.

Specialized program focusing on different aspects of management of health care organizations with special emphasis on administrative work and medical records. Cairo University, Medical and Dental School, El Kasr- El –Einy Hospital,Cairo Egypt. Bachelor of Medical Science in Oral and dental surgery,1990.

Six years of basic study including clinical work in the hospital with patients and case presentations. Study included Anatomy, pathology, surgery, histology, microbiology, radiology, skin and venereal diseases, pediatrics, internal medicine and public health in addition to specialized units.

The last year of the study was a twelve months internship at the Kasr- El- Einy Hospital. Professional experience

October 2015- 2020

Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Cairo University

Designing the curriculum of several courses related to a master program on health economics.

Coordinating with external guest lecturers.

Preparing the exams and grading it.

Teaching in a joint program on health economics.

Advising and supervising Master's and Phd thesis. October 2017- 2018

Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, American University Cairo AUC

Designing the curriculum of a course related to a master program on Health administration.

Coordinating with external guest lecturers.

Preparing the exams and grading it.

Teaching in a joint program a course titled Global health. October 2015- 2018

Guest Lecturer at the School of Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Designing the curriculum of several courses related to a master program on health economics.

Coordinating with external guest lecturers.

Teaching in a joint program on health economics.

Preparing the exams and grading it.

April 2007- present

World Bank Consultant

Ministry of health and Health Insurance Organization Consultant

Consultancy is mainly in the area of Health sector reform in coordination with the Egyptian ministry of health and the health insurance organization under a World Bank project.

The main tasks of the consultancy is to coordinate the reform with all sectors and entities. 3

Create a dialogue between different stakeholders and involve different political parties. April 2006- January 2011

Teaching Master students at the Medical School, University of Heidelberg

Leadership and Change Management course: The overall objective of this course is to explore advanced topics in leadership as it pertains to change management in dynamic health care environments found in low and middle-income countries. Through participatory learning exercises, students are taught the skills necessary for an organizational leader to assess, plan, and implement organizational change under conditions of uncertainty and complexity.

Financing Health Care - Principles of Insurance course : The overall objective of this module is to learn experiences and lessons learnt from different countries in the area of financing health care, which can then be applied to different contexts. In addition, discussion of cases will enable the students to develop an analytic approach to problem solving and apply theoretical knowledge to a real life context. October 2009- April 2010

UNDP consultant to the Ministry of Local development

Consultancy was mainly to: Develop and write the proposal and outline of the next phase of the project “Human Development Reports” at the governorates level.

To follow up and attend all activities for the development of the project with the Lead author and the research team.

To draft the detailed plan of the writing. Printing and publishing of the next 9 human development reports with budget and time line.

June 2009- October 2009

Ministry of Finance Consultant

Consultancy was mainly to develop several project documents, proposal for founding agencies and project agreement with UN agencies.

In addition to a final evaluation report of the Fiscal Enhancement project that was implemented for 8 years in the different sectors of the ministry.

Drafting of several quality assurance reports and risk and issue logs. Mai 2008- June 2009

World Bank Consultant

Hewitt Company and Health insurance management committee Consultancy was mainly in the area of

The main task was the building of an actuary model to estimate the cost of a social health Insurance for Egypt : this task was carried out with Hewitt; a British international firm from England and the team of actuaries working with president Obama on the American health reform.

Collection of data and data cleaning: The collection of data from different data sources. And coordinating with the different ministries involved in the data processing. Mainly the Ministry of health. Health Insurance Organization and Egyptian Authority of Insurance.

Aug 2001- Jan2002

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung- Egypt Country Office

Project Consultant

The project was implemented directly with decision makers, mainly parliamentarians. It included setting a data of all parliamentarians interests and background in addition to install a database accessible to interested citizens.

Some of the activities included: Working closely with syndicates, establishing rapport with interested parties. 4

Sept 1999- till date

UNDP Development consultant and Trainer

Training and consultancies mainly in the areas of :

Gender, women rights and Islamic Shariaa -Dec 2006: For GTZ Egypt country office the training was given for 20 participants from different Egyptian women organizations working in several governorates.

Gender Sensitization and gender mainstreaming- May 2006 : For the Egyptian Institute of urban planning

Gender Sensitization and gender mainstreaming- April 2006: For IDSC information Decision Support Center- the Egyptian cabinet.

Gender Sensitization- March 2006: For media professionals (broadcasting and press).

Gender Mainstreaming- Nov 2005: For UNDP- Egypt country office- senior officers.

Gender Sensitization- Dec 2005: For UNDP- Egypt country office – Junior staff.

Gender Sensitization and gender planning-May 2004: To CEWLA (Center for Egyptian women legal assistance) an Egyptian NGO, giving legal assistance and literacy programs for women. Aug1997- Jun1999

UNICEF, Egypt Country Office

Project Coordinator

As the second stage of the project, the main tasks were to help NGOs build consensus collectively towards certain issues related to the enhancement of women position in Egypt, through workshops seminar, advocacy material, and a lot of coordination.

To reach this consensus, a situation analysis was done, and several research priorities where identified then research was carried out (Six research in different areas of interest such as maternal health service delivery, perceptions of violence against women between decision makers, equality before law regarding women,… and others).

The Job at this stage was to give advice on the development of research protocols build a solid research team and follow up on all research related activities and finally organize a seminar for the presentation of the results.

The job required a lot of skills regarding communication, rapport with people, identification of needs and negotiating skills.

Jul1992- Dec 1993

United Nations Children’s Fund - UNICEF, Egypt Country Office Project Assistant

Job included: Being in charge of the conceptual development, planning, networking and evaluation functions for a new community oriented educational project initiated by UNICEF and intended for implementation through government agencies and NGO operating on the national level. Selected Publications

Book: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

Amal Shafik

Publisher :LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Publication date :10th February 2012

ISBN: 978**********

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Article : The memory of a Nation

Amal Shafik,.International Health Policies, Editorial Jul 23, 2013 Article :UHC in the Year of the Dragon and at Guantanamo Bay Amal Shafik,Seye Abimbola.International Health Policies, Editorial Jan 27, 2012 Article: Remind me again: why are we here?

Amal Shafik, Bart Criel Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 09/2011; 89(9):622. · 5.25 Languages and Computer Skills

Languages: Arabic, French, English, German (basic). Computer Skills: Knowledge of Word, Excel, Power point, Pascal programming, Epi-Info, e-views and STATA.

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