theja annambaka

Highly motivated, detailed–goal oriented and an independent problem-solver. Skilled in managing short- and long-term projects autonomously and collaboratively.

Highly motivated, detailed–goal oriented and an independent problem-solver. Skilled in managing short- and long-term projects autonomously and collaborativelly

SKILLS

• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Quality Assurance
• Team work
• Fast Learner
• Decision making
• Time – Management

EDUCATION

• Master’s in Public Health, SRM University (2018-2020)

• BS Physician Assistant, BITS PILANI University (2014-2018)

• HSLC, CSI BAIN HSS (2014)

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Programming Language- R Language
• Software Package:  SPSS, EPI INFO
• Operating System: Microsoft Office

ANNAMBAKA THEJA

Public Health Professional

EXPERIENCE

National Health Mission (Feb 2023)

Hyderabad, Telangana

• Working as Programme Officer- Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (Urban Health) in National Health Mission- Telangana (NHM) from February 2023. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitoring of Facilities in the State in coordination with District officials.
• Assisting to develop annual work plans by collating hospital level plans and facilities districts/cities 
• Preparing a district /city-wise annual status report on hospital services in urban areas, analyze inter districts/city variations
•  Coordinate with Capacity Building team for effective implementation of relevant training program to improve hospital services in urban areas
•  Ensure timely indenting and distribution of materials, medicines and supplies to health facilities and outreach in urban areas in coordination with TSMSIDC.
•  Identifying poor performing facilities, undertake regular monitoring visits, identify the determinants of poor performance and provide report 
• Prepare all reports and documents pertaining to hospitals services statistics for relevant submission commitments. 
• Literature analysis and preparing proposals to improve implementation of hospital services in urban areas
• Coordinate with other urban teams, especially disease control programmes ensure seamless provision of curative services in the urban areas
•  Interact with Development Partners and other stakeholders to enhance support available to improving hospitals services
• Preparing documents for National Quality Assurance Standards

National Health Mission (Aug 2020 to Jan 2023)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

• Worked as Consultant in National Health Mission- Tamil Nadu (NHM) from August 2020 to Jan 2023. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the project implementation as per the approved proposals by Central and State Government. 
• Orientation / sensitization all relevant state level stakeholders in the programmes.
• Undertaking visits to the peripheral sites for rapid assessment in public health facilities.
• Coordination with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that the project is on track and the activities are being implemented as per the timeline.
• Planning the trainings for team and undertaking field level visits to the sites.
• Coordination with the District officials and stake holders.
• Delivering effective public health training applicable to identified and specific training needs
• Performing trend and gap analyses to determine public health training needs
• Collecting data from the districts
•  Monitoring the National Urban Health Mission activities in the field level and state level.
• Supervising and monitoring the field level staffs.
• Monitoring the Outreach activities
• Coordinating the Government of India Field visits.
• Preparing Documents for State Heath Assembly.
• Preparing the documents for SDG and NITI AAYOG activities and sent to Government.
• Monitoring centrally sponsored schemes -Fifteenth Finance Commission, PM-ABHIM works.
• Regular follow up of civil works, PMS portal updation. 
• Preparing decks for review meetings.
• Monitoring facilities for Quality Assurance.
• Preparing proposals and submitting to the Government.
• Certified Internal Assessor Training and Service Provider Training under Quality Assurance.
• Preparing documents for National Quality Assurance Standards.

Public Health Intern

 IQVIA, Delhi

Jan-Jun 2020 

Key Responsibilities:

• Quantitative and Qualitative data collection and evaluation.
• Review of Literature
• Quality checking of Data on regular basis.
• Monitoring the Focus Group Discussions.
• Field visits for Quantitative survey
• Preparing the Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLI) reports and validating the data.
• Planning the field level activities for field investigators
• Supervising and monitoring the field level staffs.
• Collaborated with the stakeholders to ensure project flow and successful completion
• Preparing decks
• Translating the questionnaire, decks and reports from English to Telegu.
• Collecting data from the pharmaceutical retailers about the tuberculosis, hypertension, and diabetic drugs for demand and utilisation analysis. 
• Matching of Hospital codes from the NHRR portal for private hospitals.
• For COVID -19 Pandemic Translation work was done for Aarogya setu app from English to Telegu and contacting the hospitals about the infrastructure.
• Data Analysis 

Physician Assistant Intern

Madras Medical Mission, Chennai

Jun 2017-July 2018

Department of Institute of kidney, urology and Organ Transplantation

Key Responsibilities:

• History Taking and Physical examination for patients.

• Diagnosing the disease as per the symptoms.

• Assisting Surgeries, Postoperative care and dressing.

• Assisting Renal Transplantation Surgeries.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

• Role of Radioisotope Renal scans in the choice of Nephrectomy side in Live Kidney Donors (Dec 2017)

• Preliminary study of Surgery in Periampullary and Pancreatic Carcinoma (July 2018).

• Case control study to identify the risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease (Jun 2019).

• Tamil Nadu Urban Health Revamping Project.

Certification

• Internal assessor training and Service provider training

References

• Dr. Darez Ahamed, IAS, Mission Director, Directorate of Rural Development, Tamil Nadu
• TMT.Shilpa Prabakar Satish, IAS, Mission Director, NHM, Tamil Nadu.

Masters in public health