Technical writing samples

1. Angola Health For All Performance Evaluation, 2019. I led a team of consultants to evaluate this Angolan health project, and I also evaluated the HIV/AIDS and family planning parts of the project. Due to the typically short timeframe budgeted for USAID performance evaluations, they tend to make heavy use of triangulation of qualitative data, incorporating quantitative data where available.

2. Aflateen Impact Evaluation Baseline Report, 2013. This is a baseline study for an impact evaluation that I designed for Mercy Corps/Tajikistan. USAID impact evaluations use experimental or quasi-experimental designs, and this evaluation employed a pretest-posttest control group design.

3. Assessment of HIV Quality of Care in Cote d’Ivoire, 2009. This was an assessment of the quality of HIV care in Cote d'Ivoire against WHO standards of care. Data were abstracted from health facility registers.

4. Using Quality Assessment to Improve Maternal Care in Nicaragua, 2003. This case study tells the story of how the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua worked with the QA Project team to assess the quality of care of public health facilities in four municipalities. The results were used by facility-based quality improvement teams to improve their processes (ie. process improvement). Early in my career I produced over 40 case studies documenting quality improvement/process improvement efforts in low income countries, and this is an example of one of those case studies. This experience boosted my interest in using data to guide decision making.