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LEE-NAH HSU Email: [email protected] Key areas of competence: Trans-disciplinary research and application of evidence for strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of community health and human development policies and programmes taking into account governance, socio-economy, health and ecosystem with application of informatics for policies and programmatic decision on human rights, gender equality and sustainable capacity development EDUCATION J.D. 1996 La Salle University Law School Sc. D. 1983 Health Policy and Management, minors in Biostatistics & Behavioural Science M.P.H. 1980 Harvard University School of Public Health M.S. 1979 Yale University School of Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner in Community Health B.S. 1977 Health Sciences University of Oregon School of Nursing ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS University of San Francisco, Public Health Program, Department of Population & Environmental Health Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 2016 – present Adjunct Faculty focusing on global health policy intersection with social justice, ethics and law Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Global Health Department, Vancouver, Canada, 2007-2016, Adjunct Professor University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012-2015, Associate Organized annual Global Health and Human Rights Courses on workers’ health and rights; global health preparedness: Early Warning Rapid Response System; Ebola response relating to occupational safety and health & social protection for health workers; HIV and human rights Turin International Training Centre, Turin, Italy, 2010-2015, Trainer Designed and conducted courses on HIV sensitive social health protection: Equitable access for vulnerable populations; Social Health Insurance: The human side of the equation; Social protection for HIV and TB: The new Recommendation provides a framework for community and public health responses ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008, Visiting Professor Designed, coordinated and taught the “Early Warning Rapid Response System” a public health preparedness research, information and rapid action system, and supervised graduate student thesis OSCE Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2007, Faculty mentor For a graduate student’s thesis research on migrants’ wives’ HIV vulnerability Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand, 2006, Visiting Professor National Institute of Child and Family Development, Graduate programme in Human Development 1 Oslo Governance Centre, Oslo, Norway, 2003, Fellow Conducted research on building dynamic democratic governance and HIV-resilient societies. The result of this research was jointly published by UNAIDS and UNDP Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1991-1994, Adjunct Faculty School of Hygiene and Public Health, Department of International Health, Division of Health Systems; and School of Nursing Tufts University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, 1989, Nurse Practitioner/Operations Information System and research design consultant USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, 1985-1986, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Statistician of the Alzheimer research team And Sangamon State University School of Health and Human Services, faculty Associate University of California, School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Los Angeles, 1983-1985, Senior Health Economist/Statistician and Data Systems Manager Sepulveda Veterans Administration, Academic nursing home facility Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 1979-1983, Statistician The Ambulatory Care Medical Audit Demonstration Project funded by the National Centre for Health Services Research PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2009-December 2015 Senior Technical Specialist and focal point on social protection, occupational safety and health, HIV- TB co-infection prevention, treatment, care and support, and the health sector; and as the regional facilitator for Asia and Pacific RESEARCH: . Access to and effect of social protection by people living with HIV and their households . Rapid survey of national social security administration on policy and programme coverage of HIV, by region . Jointly with UNAIDS developed an on-line HIV and social protection coverage assessment tool . Human rights protection relating to HIV in prison and closed settings . Researched and developed HealthWISE: an action tool and training manual for health sector workforce’s occupational safety and health ACTIVITIES: . Managed and provided technical support in operations research and project implementation with funding from GIZ for Mali, Moldova, Namibia, Ukraine; and from OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for 12-countries in Africa, Caribbean and America (Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Senegal; Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay). Provided technical guidance in research, programme implementation & resource mobilization for Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Lao PDR, Nepal, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam & Pacific Islands (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island, Vanuatu). 2 . Developed occupational safety and health guidelines on biological hazard for health workforce; and integrated HIV-TB workplace programmes for public and private enterprises, consistent with the international labour standards. World Bank (WB) & Asia Development Bank (ADB) September 2007-December 2009 . Evaluated the transport sector HIV preventive responses (Nepal and Bangladesh) & the South Asia regional transport sector HIV strategy including gender-responsiveness . Evaluated the World Bank’s “Road to good health” an HIV prevention toolkit for behavioural change communication and policy interventions for transport infrastructure construction projects . Evaluated the WB/DFID Central Asia Regional AIDS fund programme, the operations guidelines and strategy to improve targeting, cost-effectiveness and sustainability (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) . Assessed HIV vulnerability along CAREC corridors linking China, Russia, Europe and Afghanistan through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as ADB’s Asia and the Pacific HIV Central Asia regional programme . Evaluated the migration and HIV training impact of IOM, WB/DFID Central Asia Project Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) 2005 – 2009; 2017-2021 . Strategic guidance group for grant applications, National strategy applications and CCM performance . Conducted the five year-evaluation of GFATM on its governance, partnership and lead an evaluation team in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan Partnerships in Health Foundation, Switzerland, January 2005-August 2009 . Senior Technical Advisor for the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) funded Western Balkan Programme to Fight HIV and AIDS . Evaluator of the Phase I (2000-2004)project . Designer of the Phase II programme covering Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia to strengthen health system, build health workforce capacity, conducted behavior change communication training UNDP & UNAIDS Regional Technical Support Facilities, January 2005- December 2008 . Developed the HIV Strategic plan, 2008-2012 for Sudan . Provided technical support to the Regional Partnership on Mobility and HIV vulnerability of the Horn of Africa . Evaluated Round 4 GFATM HIV Grant implementation in Tajikistan . Developed a Guide to mainstream HIV policy in gender programs for the UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre . Developed a multi-sectoral HIV mainstreaming guide for UNAIDS and World Bank . Designed framework on HIV and governance for the UN Development Group, New York . Conducted impact evaluation of United Nations joint AIDS project of 1997-2004 in Kyrgyzstan . Reviewed HIV mainstreaming technical support at sectoral and local levels for John Snow International, United Kingdom . Evaluated community-based drug demand-reduction programmes covering UNODC, ILO, WHO, FAO, IFAD, UNICRI and US/NIH/NIDA Others January 2005- December 2008 3 . Evaluated the Red Cross Society national HIV prevention, TB co-infection and AIDS treatment, care and support programme Phase III, 2006-2008, Ethiopia for Danish Red Cross – RCG . Designed and conducted multi-country research on the status and responses of EU Population mobility, HIV & TB vulnerability (Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal) under Portugal EU presidency for the Portugal Ministry of Health . Feasibility assessment for adopting Farmers’ Life School concept along ASEAN Highway Route Number 9 of the potential impact of transport corridor infrastructure development on rural community HIV and health vulnerabilities in Lao PDR and Viet Nam for Handicap International United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) December 1998- December 2004 South East Asia HIV and Development Programme, Bangkok, Thailand Regional Programme Manager and Convenor of the United Nations Regional Task Force on Mobility and HIV Vulnerability Reduction covering Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor L’Este and Viet Nam . Conducted research and built evidence to support mainstreaming of HIV prevention in Agriculture, Maritime Industry, poverty reduction and rural development, transport infrastructure construction sectors and uniformed services . Formulated ASEAN regional HIV policy and designed a model contractual