Resume: Tom Mukasa (Ph.D)

Tom Mukasa


Social Justice, Community Organizer and Public/Global Health Specialist

USA Address: 870 Hilgard Avenue #221

Los Angeles, CA 90024


MOD Public Health Foundation, Public Health Steering Team Uganda (PHSTU)

Plot 79, Bukoba Road, Near Gaz


+ 1 (925)388-3193 (WhatsApp); +256770489667 (UG)

advocacynetworkafrica@gmail.com


Tom Mukasa is a Public Health Strategist with over 35 years of imparting health promotion and education at conscious, subconscious, social, national and international levels. A practitioner and a healthy living skills promoter champion, a facilitator of process-driven events, skilled in advising and one capable of leveraging individuals or communities to examine the consequences of decisions as well as aspire to a fuller picture of life's outcomes. Tom develops efficacious models distilling the "public" in Public Health thereby locating it in people-centred outcomes linking the "health" aspirations in Public Health to good health and wellbeing for all, for all age-groups, across the entire range (spectrum) of humanity to backdrop diversity; embedding the Child, Adolescent, Teenager, Adult and Seniors (CATAS) Model to advance inclusion and equity. Tom takes communities through analysis sessions to decipher priorities, gauge and sense the direction they are shifting and competing. In times when new norms are emerging such as pandemics, climate change related disruptions and crises, the last-mile or frontline communities require a catalytic mobiliser to empower them to engage in re-education and re-organising how they perceive lives. Tom has the skill-set to take communities through sessions enabling them to tap into Public Health Facilitation Frameworks to improve on their wellbeing; turn Public Health aspirations into a force to re-orient communities toward appreciating the values and outcomes of self-help initiatives, develop heuristics linked to economic, physical, cultural, political, gender, civic and social domains of self-determination fostering better life outcomes. 


SKILLS

Community Organiser (TB and Forced Migration); Community organizer; Vaccine Trials Recruiter; Clinical care Navigator; Motivational Speaker; Life Planning Skills Practitioner; Health and development information, education and communication skits; design-thinking; research, monitoring and evaluation; report writing, computer proficiency, audio visual systems, peer counseling; HIV, TB, Malaria prevention integrating COVID-19 Response and Recovery; aligning SDGs; Virtual Work Place, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Team, panel presentation; anchoring/hosting; Community Organizing and Organization, Resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH), Equity, CSS, CLM, ISD, human rights, and gender equality,  Health financing and sustainability.

 

EXPERIENCE

·         MOD Public Health Foundation, Public Health Steering Team Uganda (PHSTU) HIV/TB/Malaria and Partnership Specialist, September 2022-Update.

•       UK Academics and Professionals to End TB Member

•       Co-facilitator Pan African Health Community Classes, 2020-Present

•       Design, formulate and develop NFM4/UNHLM inclusion training tools targeting refugees, Key, Vulnerable and Priority Population-led grassroots-based communities; effectively facilitate participation by 1,800 CBOs in 25 African in efforts to eradicate HIV/TB/Malaria, endemic poverty and diseases integrating COVID-19 Response and Recovery

•       Strategic Visioning to align Persons with Disabilities in Kenya, Tanzania, DRC,

Botswana and Uganda to National TB Prevention, Care and Mitigation Policies 2018/2022/2023-2028

•       Chief Investigator TB and Forced Migration in selected refugee/host communities in Kakuma, Kajiado, Nairobi, Nyeri, Kitengela, Kiambu and Lamu Under the Refugee-

Led Research Hub Refugee Studies Centre/University of Oxford/BIEA

•       Conducting studies, aligning policy, and harmonizing TB Screening eligibility with the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC) protocols; Assessment of the Safety, Tolerability, and Effectiveness of Rifapentine Given Daily for LTBI 

•       Member and Reviewer WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Tuberculosis

(STAG-TB); policy formulation and review tasks outlining Africa’s progress.

•       TB/HIV Policy and Programming reviewer for BIPOC Communities in the USA, Brazil, Haiti, Mexico and Canada

•       Design, formulate and develop training tools for grassroots-based communities to effectively participate in eradicating HIV/TB/Malaria, endemic poverty and diseases.

•       Conduct accelerated learning through High Impact Hackathons targeting Marginalized Populations most especially Key Populations and Refugees

•       Health Occupational Staff-COVID-19 Surveillance Clinic- UCLA-Health November 2020-August 2021

•       Procurement/Logistics Officer with the Big Heart Foundation/UNICEF-USA – Greater Los Angeles Area/West-Pacific Board August 2020-November 2020

•       Co-founder Advocacy Network Africa (AdNetA)/Lung Health Africa-2018- Present

•       UCSF Hospital Community Navigator Associate-2016

•       Co-organizer National HIV Is Not a Crime II Conference, 2016

•       Program Associate, Equality California: Equality California Institute, Californians for HIV Criminalization Reform California meeting at HIV Is Not a Crime-2015

•       California State Working Group for Modernizing HIV criminal laws Member, UC College of Law, Clinical and Experiential Learning Program 2015

•       Care Nurse-Institute on Aging-University of California San Francisco – 2012-2014

•       Front Office Manager- Mercy Housing Complex-San Francisco – 2014-2015

•       Community Mobiliser National HIV Is Not a Crime II Conference, 2014

•       Founder- Bay Area Healthy Living Platforms for New Americans – Founder 2013- Present

•       Member, The Black AIDS Institute-2012

 

EDUCATION

University Of Oxford, - Certificate-Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Research Methods 2021

University Of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), - Certificate-Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 2021

St. Mary’s College of California, - BA Political Science 2016-2020

St. Mary’s College of California, - AA Public Health and Social Justice 2016-2020

Tulane University, - Certificate -Disaster Public Health 2015-2016

Michigan University, - Certificate- Health Administration 2015

Johns Hopkins University, - Cancer Biology and Remedial Health 2014

University Of California-San Francisco (UCSF), - Certificate-Home and

Long-Term Elderly Care 2014

Harvard University, - Global Health 2012-2014

Stanford University, - Certificate Leadership, Management and

Administration 2013

Dar-es-Salaam University, - Rights/Evidence-Based Medicine 2007

Makerere University, - MMED 1999

Makerere University, - MBChB 1995 

 

Awards

1.      Anne Frank Human Rights Award: For demonstrating the intersection between public health and dignity of persons, advancing immigrants’ rights, founding a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing forward prevention and development services and exceptional. dedication to human rights, 2012

2.      California State HIV Care Consortium: Creating contexts challenging violence domestically and internationally centering on a world free of HIV, stigma and discrimination, 2014.

3.      White House Commendation: Successfully advocating for PEPFAR Funds to be released to Africa during the Trump Administration,           advancing        the       rights   of         African communities to adequate and affordable health coverage  and tracer medicines, 2017.

4.      UNOPS/Stop TB Partnership Recognition: For innovating, formulating and synthesizing a TB Prevention and Elimination Systems Thinking Intervention Viable Product, 2019


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