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Soe Htut Aung

MBBS, MPH

(He/Him)

Strategic Information Expert

One Tech Agency

About me

A Public Health professional with expertise in monitoring, evaluation and learning, strategic planning and SOP and guideline development, experienced in using digital tools and new intervention strategies to enhance quality, equity, and accountability.

Core competencies

Implementation research

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Stakeholders engagement

Technical assistance

Strategic and Operational plan development

DAta Analysis And visualization

Where I have worked

Burma (Myanmar), Tanzania, Nigeria

Clients:

Expansion of Community Case Management in Nigeria

Adjust parameters

develop scenarios

Data sources

Spatial datasets on population and health facilities

Datasets from Malaria Indicator Survey (2021)

Modeled surfaces on disease burden and accessibility

Spatial

analysis

Visualize results

Raster surface on travel time to nearest primary healthcare center across Nigeria

Objectives

Evidence-based location-allocation strategies for community health workers
Interactive dashboard for stakeholders to visualize different expansion scenarios

Urban Rural Disparities in Tanzania

Risk factors analysis for teenage pregnancy

Workflow

Exploratory investigation of individual confounders for Rural/Urban OR when adjusting for P < 0.1 variables

Methodology

Identifying teenage-pregnancy rates in urban and rural areas across regions

2024

From DHS-8 data from Tanzania (2022), risk factors of teenage pregnancy and high risk areas are identified to guide interventions

Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

Initial Implementation report

Workflow of CAD: (Adopted from A 1.9 - Screening with CXR, Module 2: Screening, WHO operational handbook on Tuberculosis)

2023 - 2024

Documented the findings on performance of CAD in different settings, additional yield and efficiency indicators
Made recommendations for routine CAD-AI implementation in facility-based case finding

Performance of CAD in differentiating TB, at optimal cutoff score of each partner

Sputum Transport System

Routes analysis

From July to December 2021, 1,115 specimens were transported via 13 routes

In 2022, 5,181 specimens were transported via 10 routes

From January to May 2023, 2,391 specimens were transported via 8 routes

2023 - 2024

Documented effectiveness, efficiency and accessibility perspectives of existing transport system
Made recommendations on route planning to improve access and utilization of sputum transportation services

Optimization of GeneXpert and CXR networks

Spatial optimization analysis

Accessibility to GX sites using euclidean distance

Existing network

Scenario 1:

Maximum coverage

(48 new GX sites)

Scenario 2:

Mixed - Coverage + distribution across states (40 new GX sites)

2023

Assessed coverage, functionality and utilization of current molecular TB laboratory network and X-ray services
Produced evidences to support diagnosis network optimization

Reported TB notification of townships in each state

(before dual crisis by COVID-19 and Coup vs 2022)

Implementation report on

Xpert MTB/XDR testing

Drug resistance pattern among different demographic groups

Turn around time (TAT) among different providers

Made programmatic recommendations to ensure access to Xpert MTB/XDR testing which has been implemented as a reflex test for Xpert MTB/RIF testing to detect INH mono-resistance and pre-XDR cases

2022 - 2023

Integration plan for e-LIMS at National TB Reference Laboratory

Components of eLIMS integration

Current data communication

Proposed eLIMS workstations and functions

Procedures and contents

Assessed the LIMS system at National TB Reference Laboratory, design methodology for integration of simplified eLIMS with objective to reduce paper burden and enhance quality and efficiency in data management. Worked closely with IT firms for customized software development

2022 - 2023

Strategic plan, M&E plan and SOPs developments

National level

Pictorial flowchart of detail interventions

Cascade of EMTCT services

2019 - 2023

Role:

Drafted background epidemiology chapter and 3 selected strategic objectives of strategic plan and costed operational plan
Drafted National M&E plan
Drafted USAID Burma TB Roadmap (2024)

2019 - 2020

Role:

Reviewed EMTCT road map, HIV treatment guidelines and technical references

Developed bi-lingual SOP for EMTCT: Full version and concise version

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

USAID funded TB projects (2012 - 2019)

2012 - 2015