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Assignment-ready public health specialist, Nepal
A profile written the way terms of reference are written: what I am available for, the competencies I can evidence, and the results behind them. Public health specialist with over a decade in Nepal's government health service and an MPH in Global Health Security.
Assignment-ready summary
- Availability
- Short-term consultancy, technical assistance, evaluation assignments and roster or expert-panel work.
- Engagement modes
- Remote, in-country and mixed missions, with counterpart experience at municipal, district and federal level in Nepal.
- Base & mobility
- Based in Nepal; available for field travel across Nepal and for regional assignments.
- Languages
- Nepali (native), English (professional working proficiency).
- Contact
- info@tirtharajacharya.com.np — enquiries answered with scope, timeframe and fit.
Competency statements
Grouped under the competency headings used in agency vacancy notices and terms of reference. Each statement carries the role, level and period it rests on.
Health systems strengthening, PHC and UHC
- Led municipal health departments in two provinces through Nepal's first federal local-government tenure (2018–2023), covering annual planning, budgeting, workforce and facility quality improvement.
- Translates national policy and donor requirements into service-delivery plans a district health office can realistically execute.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Builds indicator frameworks and Theory of Change / results-based management structures for programme performance reporting.
- Conducts routine data quality assessment and prepares donor-ready performance and learning reporting.
Implementation research and evidence to action
- Applies CFIR, RE-AIM and Proctor implementation outcomes to assess determinants, fidelity, adoption and sustainability in low-resource settings.
- MPH in Global Health Security, Yonsei University (2025), with implementation-research focus.
Surveillance and health information systems
- Communicable and non-communicable disease surveillance, MPDSR and immunisation reporting at municipal and federal level.
- DHIS2 / HMIS analysis turned into decision products for municipal and district managers.
Health emergency preparedness
- Works with IHR core capacities and WHO emergency care systems guidance on readiness, referral and trauma pathway design.
- Postgraduate training in global health security nominated by the Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal.
Partnership, government liaison and advisory
- Served as Focal Officer, NCD and Mental Health Section, Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (2023), liaising with WHO Nepal and bilateral and multilateral partners.
- Comfortable as counterpart to government, UN agencies and development-partner teams, and in workshop facilitation and in-service training.
Selected results
Outcomes drawn only from documented roles and qualifications — no estimated figures.
Municipal health governance established under federalism
Chief of municipal health departments in Khotang and Kaski (2018–2023), setting up annual planning, budgeting, immunisation, nutrition, maternal and child health, surveillance and facility quality improvement for newly formed local governments.
Federal-level partner coordination on NCDs and mental health
Focal Officer at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (2023), coordinating with WHO Nepal and bilateral and multilateral partners on non-communicable disease and mental health programmes and research.
Frontline service delivery and workforce training
Health Assistant and Ilaka In-charge across Solukhumbu, Kaski and Khotang (2013–2018): primary care delivery, outreach clinics, programme supervision and in-service training facilitation.
Government-nominated postgraduate training in health security
MPH in Global Health Security at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea, on a KOICA scholarship, nominated by the Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal.
Published, referenced analysis for practitioners
Author of long-form, source-referenced articles on Nepal health policy, financing, data quality, emergency care and responsible AI in surveillance, published on this site.
Frameworks, tools and qualifications
Frameworks and approaches applied
- Results-Based Management
- Theory of Change
- MEAL frameworks
- CFIR
- RE-AIM
- Proctor implementation outcomes
- IHR core capacities
- Primary health care & UHC
- Mixed methods
Tools used
- DHIS2 / HMIS
- Routine data quality assessment
- SPSS
- R
- Python
- Power BI
- QGIS / ArcGIS
- LaTeX
Qualifications
Master of Public Health — Global Health Security
Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
2025
Bachelor of Public Health (First Division)
Purbanchal University, Koshi Health and Science Campus
2013
Health Assistant — Distinction, CTEVT Topper
CTEVT, Koshi Health Institute, Biratnagar
2010
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