CURRICULUM VITAE August, 2012
Name : Susan Beth Rifkin
Date of Birth : 25th June, 1942
Nationality : American
Marital Status : Single
Address : 3498 E. Ellsworth Ave Unit 606
Denver, Colorado 80209
Telephone : 303 884 2016
Email Address: :
Languages : Mandarin Chinese, French
Education
1983 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Science. Thesis entitled "Planners Approaches to Community Participation in Community Health Programs: Case Studies in South East Asia".
1973 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Received Certificate in Tropical Medicine and Community Health.
1969 School of International Affairs and the East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York
Received Masters degree in International affairs and certificate from the East Asian Institute in June 1969. Essay topic:"The Development and Use of Atomic Energy in the People`s Republic of China". Received Alice Stetten Fellowship, 1967.
Susan Beth Rifkin
1964 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Received Bachelor's degree in June 1964.
Majored in Asian Studies with courses in the
Chinese language (3 years) and comparative politics (2 years). Dean's list (5 semesters), Members Honors Program and Pi Sigma Alpha, Political Science Honorary. Received National Defense Education Act Fellowship for Chinese language study, Summer 1963.
Employment
2011-present Colorado School of Public Health, Adjunct
Professor
Established courses on Global Health Policy and Health
Policy Analysis
2010 Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Professor, established a course on current issues of health policy for the new Master in Health Policy and Financing
2001-Present Senior Research Fellow (2005), Visiting Teacher, London School of Economics
Started new course on health policies and systems in developing countries, Department of Social Policy (2005-present); teaching on core course of Health, Development and Community, Senior Research Fellow Department of Social Psychology (2009-present), also teaching in the department
1993- Present Attachment to London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Honorary Senior Research Fellow (1983-2003)
Module Organizer for Primary Health Care study unit since 2002; qualitative teaching for Short Course on Reproductive Health (1997-2005)
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1999-2001 Professor and Co-Director of Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development in Africa Kisumu Kenya
Responsibility for academic affairs in assisting to establish a new course for Masters degree, Diploma and Certificate for students in Sub-Saharan Africa;
innovative course combining classroom teaching with field practice
Part Time Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Undertaking tutorials at both institutions and convening the Rural Development seminar for the MSc. in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries at the London School of Economics ;responsible for the developing country section of Foundations of Health Policy
1990-1993 Guest Professor, Institute of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg
First Convener of the MSc. in Community Health and Health Management in Developing Countries; duties included establishing both the conceptual and administrative framework for this new course as well as "backstopping" the course until the end of its first pilot phase
1989-1990 Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Team Leader for an evaluation of WHO's Essential Drug Policy
1986-1991 Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University
1986 - 1989 Visiting Senior Lecturer in International Community Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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1984 - 1986 Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Consultant on Health Planning and Community Participation, Asian Community Health Action Network (ACHAN)
1980 - 1984 Asian Community Health Action Network (ACHAN), Hong Kong
Coordinator - Based in Hong Kong with extensive travel in the region to help make more systematic the exchanges of information, materials and personnel among non-government community health programs in Asia focusing particularly on the training of organizing appropriate meetings, seminars, training programs and evaluations and editing the newsletter LINK. (ACHAN was founded in June 1980 in response to the need of a community health exchange network for NGO's in the Asian region.)
1977 - 1984 Hong Kong Christian Council/Center for Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
Researcher - Research on three case studies of Church related community health programs in South East Asia (Hong Kong, Philippines and Indonesia) to analyze issues which affect community participation in health programs and the process by which communities get involved in their own health care. Summer of 1978 includes - Visiting Fellow
at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, UK.
1975 - 1977 Christian Conference of Asia, Hong Kong
Consultant on Health Concerns - Duties include visiting Protestant Church related programs throughout
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Asia to discover how various community health programs operate, organizing two workshops (one in Philippines and one in India) to bring together doctors,
community development people and village health workers to exchange experiences on community
participation on health care programs, beginning to build a network among rural workers in
Asia who are involved in community health.
1974 - 1975 Ministry of Health, Government of Zambia
Provincial Health Education Officer in Southern Province - Duties include planning health education programs for province. Planning and implementing programs for community health programs with district medical officers.
1970 - 1974 Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Brighton, Sussex, UK
Research Fellow - Research on rural health strategies in the People's Republic of China.
1970 - 1974 University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
Lecturer in International Affairs.
1969 - 1970 Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fellow - Research on health programs and science policy in the People`s Republic of China.
1969 - 1970 National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
Consultant - Duties included editing first four volumes of China Science Notes - quarterly newsletter reporting current affairs.
1969 - 1971 Office of the Foreign Secretary
Professional Assistant for the Committee on Scholarly Communication with Mainland China. Duties included responsibility of administration and planning
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for all Committee meetings and activities. Organizing staff work, background materials and meetings for the investigation of Committee sponsorship of a conference
on bio-medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Directing staff activities. Reading
and analyzing most current political and scientific developments
1969 - 1971 International Research and Technology Corporation, Washington DC
Consultant - Duties included research and analysis on topics concerning Chinese nuclear science development and general Asian studies.
1965 - 1966 Library of Congress, Washington DC
Reference Assistant for Legislative Reference Service, Foreign Affairs - Duties included collecting and confirming information for United States Congressmen, their staff and constituents. Occasional speech writing and analytical assessment in the Far East.
Part-time Jobs held throughout college years included :
professional model, secretary and language laboratory director for Chinese-Japanese Summer Language Institute at the University of Colorado. Also examination reader for Asian political science course during academic year and summer 1963-64.
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Consultancies
1978 IBRD (World Bank)
Indian Population Project II - portfolio for community participation and role of women. Work in Uttar Pradesh and Andra Pradesh.
1979 Ecumenical Committee of the Lutheran Church of America
Travel in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka to meet members of non-governmental organizations involved in community health to see the feasibility of creating an Asian network of groups to support regional training efforts and information and personnel exchanges.
1980 Asian Health Institute, Nagoya, Japan
to assist in the planning of a curriculum to train middle level
community workers to community health programs in voluntary agency programs throughout Asia with emphasis on health within the context of community and national development plans.
1983 WHO (World Health Organization)
Task force on community participation for Division of Strengthening Health Services - wrote paper "Community Involvement in PHC among the Urban Poor".
WHO - Temporary Adviser, MCH/FP - wrote paper "Using Community Diagnosis for Development Community Participation in MCH/FP services".
1984 WHO/UNICEF
Consultant on community participation to review files on MCH/FP programs with community participation and write an analysis for publication.
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1985 UNICEF
Contract to develop a simulation game on rural health service interventions to help sensitize health workers in the third world to the potential and limitations of introducing programs based on community participation and selected health technologies.
WHO
Consultant to Health Strategy Co-ordination for a Consultation on the Leadership Development Initiative to develop a series of learning approaches and exercises to stimulate discussions among top leaders about Health For All.
1986 WHO
Consultant to visit two WHO financed community participation projects in India and Sri Lanka to report on progress and to define lessons in research and development.
WHO
Temporary Adviser to meeting on Community Participation and Government policies in MCH/FP, Zimbabwe.
WHO
Consultant to meeting on Urban Primary Health Care in African Cities, Ethiopia.
1987 WHO
Consultant to the Municipal Officer, Tanga Tanzania to
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help develop a project for health care for the urban poor. Preparation for the document on the Global Program on Urban Primary Health Care.
1988 WHO
Preparation of guidelines to enable managers to make a rapid appraisal of urban health and health care especially in low income areas. These guidelines were field tested in Tanzania, November.
1990 Consultant to WHO in Bangladesh to review progress in district health and urban primary health care programs
1992 South African Advisory Committee, Kellogg Foundation Community Partnerships in Health Personnel Education
Consultancy to facilitate and advised groups involved in an initiative to link university medical institutions will poor black and colored communities in order to improve access to health care. Work consisting of advising several groups and facilitating a workshop for all groups focusing on community participation and Primary Health Care
Save the Children Fund, UK
Researcher for a case study on the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam as a contribution to the global study concerning the Sustainability of policies and their implementation in the health sector in low income countries with focus on the contribution of external donor aid
1994 Independent Consultant to develop teaching module on application qualitative research for health training programs
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developing a teaching module for MSc. and short courses in health care in the United Kingdom and
the Netherlands focusing on rapid appraisal and participatory appraisal skills and methods
1995 Kreditanstalt fur Wideraufbau (KFW), Germany
Consultant and team member of a World Bank pre-appraisal mission to develop a community based health program for the Northern Areas in Pakistan; shared responsibility for area of community participation
WHO
Consultant to rewrite Rapid Appraisal Guidelines and to prepare a meeting for a study of the patterns of poor health in low income urban areas
ODA/British Council
Consultant on community participation for the WB/ODA Second Family Health Project in Pakistan
1996 ODA/British Council
Follow up consultancy as above working with local consultants to write an analysis on the National Lady Health Worker Program; provided training for key facilitators to undertake Rapid Participatory Appraisal
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Organized a 3 week course on Rapid and Participatory Appraisals for health, nutrition and family planning managers focusing on skills and practice for qualitative research methods as well as appraisals
1997 British Council
Organized a 2 week course on Rapid and Participatory Appraisals for health, nutrition and family planning
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managers for the Community Health Department, Vellore Medical College, India
1998 Keele University
Organized a 2 week course on Rapid and Participatory Appraisals for health, nutrition and family planning managers focusing on skills and practice for qualitative research methods as well as needs assessments
1999 DANIDA
Consultant on participatory approaches and social development for an appraisal mission on a community based nutrition program in Kenya
2001 DANIDA
Designer and Chief Facilitator of a Participatory Needs Assessment for the Ministry of Health, Coast Province, Kenya--work included training health staff to undertake the assessment and supporting the collection of data by staff for each District for planning yearly health activities
2003 European Commission
Assessment of the role Indian Institute of Health and Family Welfare in Hyderabad, India as a training and research institution and identification of ways to strengthen this role
2005 WHO Iran
Consultant on community participation for the Ministry of Health and Medical Education assessing the contribution of community participation to health
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services utilization and working with staff at the National Public Health and Management Center to develop a pilot project for training Health Volunteers as facilitators for participatory needs assessments and plans of action
2006 Comic Relief United Kingdom
Mid term reviewer for the Comic Relief Investment Grant to the Child to Child Trust covering the work of the Trust in London and its four Partners, Heath Action Schools at the Aga Khan University Pakistan; CHETNA, India; Arab Resource Collective, Beirut; Kenya NGO AIDS Consortium, Nairobi.
2006 WHO Iran
Consultant to follow up work described above
2007 USAID A2Z Micronutrient Global Leadership Project
Literature review of effectiveness of community participation approaches to nutrition programs with colleagues from the University of Westminster
2007 GTZ (Germany)
Conducted a one month training course for mid-level managers in the Ministry of Health in Cambodia on health system reforms
2007 World Health Organization, Department of Human Resources Geneva
Wrote background paper on Human Resources for Health and Primary Health Care as a contribution to the World Health Report 2008
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2008 University of Trinidad and Tobago
Established a module on Primary Health Care for the new Master of Health Administration; help discussions about the development of the entire Masters with suggestions specifically on research and preparation for dissertations
2009 London School of Economics and Captain Consultancy (Nigeria)
Designed and facilitated a course on participatory approaches to rural development for senior government officers from Niger and Edo State in Nigeria for 3 days and in London for 3 days
2009 XI International Dengue Course Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute Havana Cuba