Established standards for medical training curriculum developed by International Medical Corps (IMC) Trainers at the hospital.  They are now receiving technical assistance from Center for International Health for upgrading their curricula.

Established recruitment and orientation guidelines for expatriate doctors and midwives volunteering to work at the hospital.

Provided general oversight and coordination of the activities related to renovation of the hospital and specific insight into the development of the training rooms—i.e., a 12 station, internet-connected computer lab, a traditional classroom, a training room with life-size models and three offices with internet connections. 

Provided daily coordination, guidance and mentoring for 12 Afghan male and female IMC medical doctors medical trainers, four program support people and a dozen IMC support and logistics personnel involved in the hospital training project.

Provided support and guidance to over 25 expatriate doctors, nurses, midwives and hospital administrators who volunteered as trainers from two weeks to three months at a time. 

Provided leadership to efforts of the combined IMC and RBH medical teams to lower the maternal and neonatal mortality rates.

Wrote the field portion of the grant proposal and co-developed the budget to United States Department of Social and Health Services (DHHS) to extend the project for an additional three years from October 2004 @ $2 million per year. 

Provided guidance to the Center for International Health (CIH) Consortium on training needs and cultural considerations that should inform their technical assistance to the hospital.

Acted as the principal liaison between the RBH Project and IMC Country Office, as well as IMC Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

Wrote successful two-year proposals for United States Aid for International Development (USAID)-funded midwifery training programs in Khost Province and in Nangarhar Province. 

Mentored female Afghan doctors who served as project officers for these two programs.

Thirty new community midwives are in training in Khost City and 60 new midwives for clinic and hospital work are being trained in Jalalabad.  In addition, the Jalalabad project is upgrading the training of over 100 midwives who are already halfway through their programs.

Midwives in both programs will complete their training in Spring 2006.

Served as co-investigator of a household health knowledge survey (baseline and follow up) of 4,000 households distributed among ford districts—two in the province of Laghman and two in the Province of Kabul. 

Directly supervised the Afghan Project Officer and Operations Assistant and Two Surveyor Supervisors for the Project.

Trained 32 household surveyors and debriefed them at the end of the project.

Guided the distribution of 2,000 AFHB in the intervention district in each province.

Collaborated with the IMC Country Director and Managers to develop new proposals for clinics and medical training programs in Afghanistan. 

Co-authored the proposals for clinics in Khost Province and the Refresher Training Programs in Bamian, Ghazni and Kabul Provinces.

Assisted the Country Director in developing contacts with other donor agencies inside and outside of Afghanistan that will enhance IMC programming.

Assisted Afghan Staff of AHDO in developing grant proposals for girls’ school construction, education and training programs for women and voter education in Central and Eastern Provinces of Afghanistan.