Andrew Winters, M.P.H.
11505 Piney Lodge Road
North Potomac, MD 20878
Home: 301-610-6452
winters1@hotmail.com
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Mr. Winters has experience and training in international and domestic health management, maternal and child health, diabetes prevention and control, health promotion, community and infrastructure development, evaluation, training, injury control and research. He lived over four years in Central America where he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, as a Peace Corps technical trainer for Peace Corps/Nicaragua, and currently as a Foreign Service Officer for USAID in Honduras. He is fluent in Spanish at the FSI 4/3 level. Mr. Winters has a wide range of knowledge and experience in public health and development.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
United States Agency for International Development 2005-Present
(Washington, DC)
1 Program/Project Development Officer (Foreign Service Officer). Fully trained in all aspects of USAID management including assistance and acquisition; certificate training as cognitive technical officer (CTO); project evaluation; new entry professional. Career highlights include:
- Program officer in Strategy and Planning Support Office, USAID/Honduras. Recent assignments include lead on sections of annual performance review; country assistance strategy, backstopping Municipal Development and Democratic Initiatives.
- Lead on evaluation of CORE Initiative, a major multi-country HIV/AIDS prevention and control project, mandated by Presidential Management Agenda; negotiated with contractor; drafted scope of work; co-authored and edited final report published by Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, Center for Development Information and Evaluation. Moved Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives from “red” to “green” OMB status. TDY in Thailand and Cambodia to interview CORE participants.
- Wrote operational plan for USAID/Yemen during TDY in collaboration with program area offices; wrote operating unit overview. Began closeout of ADRA health project; site visit to Mareb to visit education program area activities.
-Wrote and edited sections for Operational Plan in Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, Office for Private Voluntary Cooperation/American Schools and Hospitals Abroad for Cooperative Development Program.
- Member of Support Team on implementing Managing to Budget Initiative in Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination/Office of Resource Allocation; advised USAID Pillar and Regional Bureaus on implementation of MTB; provided technical assistance to pilot operating units; participated in MTB working groups. Won Meritorious Honor Group Award.
- Wrote and edited sections of peer review memorandum for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee.
- In Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean: Contributed to budget process, edited CBJs; contributed to annual report review process; created budget matrix for use by LAC/RSD; reviewed Central America annual reports, prepared synopsis of ARs for assistant administrator’s briefing; contributed to LAC/RSD Strategy Statement. In charge of region-wide assistance vehicle procurement for Democratic Indicators Monitoring Survey; wrote justification memo, scope of work, budget, prepared MAARD; collaborated with contracting office in El Salvador. Wrote close-out report for health strategic objective. Served as Honduras desk officer.
Northrop Grumman Information Technology Health and Science Solutions (ROW Sciences, Inc.) (Rockville, Maryland) 1998–2004
Diabetes Today National Training Center Project, Training and Technical Assistance Division, Project Director. Responsible for developing and implementing a national training project designed to create new community health interventions across the United States and its overseas jurisdictions. Project had goal of creating community-based projects at local and State levels to educate members of at-risk groups about diabetes, its prevention and treatment, and how to avoid its complications. Special emphasis on creating and implementing a Hispanic/Latino training curriculum, Diabetes: La Comunidad en Acción; formed and led a National Expert Council. Provided ongoing technical advice to participating communities. Hired and supervised professional staff; drafted contracts with consultants. Project was supported by a five-year contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with a $3 million budget.
Directed trainings on United States/Mexico border in collaboration with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Field Office in El Paso, Texas, CDC, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and other health agencies. Carried out additional trainings in Mexico with PAHO and Mexican Ministry of Health; received superior evaluations from CDC in each year.
HIV Meds for Guatemala (New York, NY) 1998–Present
Volunteer Member. As a part-time volunteer, collects and ships or delivers personally recyclable medicine collected from sources in the United States to medical providers in Guatemala. Participated in numerous planning sessions and teleconferences. Web site: www.macaw.com/hivmeds/.
Project HOPE (Millwood, Virginia) 2001
Consultant. Carried out an intensive needs assessment of diabetes in Mexico. Collaborated in final report used for initiating comprehensive, countrywide project to prevent and control diabetes. Interviewed key informants from governmental and private agencies in States of Mexico, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca.
Diabetes Control Program (DCP), Kansas Department of Health (Topeka, Kansas) 1997–1998
Manager. In charge of a program designed to measure the impact of diabetes mellitus in Kansas, improve standards of care, and develop new and innovative strategies for community interventions to reach minority populations; funded by CDC. Managed grants to contracted agencies for community health interventions using locally hired, culturally competent health promoters. Wrote a successful continuation grant proposal to CDC as well as quarterly reports. Created ESL curriculum on diabetes for at-risk population groups.
Human Services Action Coalition (HuSAC), Suffolk Community Council (Islandia, New York) 1996–1997
Project Director. Served as leader of a group of local clergy, health and human service agency representatives, and citizens in opposition to cuts in governmental funding for human services.
Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York, New York) 1996
Project Coordinator, SPNS Project. As consultant in charge of bringing a new project for educating Hispanic physicians about HIV/AIDS into compliance with Federal contractual obligations, searched for funding opportunities and new sites for implementation; wrote yearly implementation plan; funded by HRSA Special Projects of National Significance program.
CRISS/CROSS Project, Human Services Department (East Hampton, New York) 1995–1996
Project Manager. As director and manager of a new and innovative project designed to develop an integrated approach to human services in a culturally diverse municipality, created an ongoing planning network uniting social and health service providers with schools to promote a progressive approach to service delivery and to eliminate gaps in human services. Designed and implemented a community needs assessment study, analyzed it with SPSS, and conducted a provider survey, a demographic study. Developed a database of funding sources for projects developed by the planning network.
Peace Corps Training Center (Santa Lucia, Honduras, C.A.) 1993–1994
Technical Trainer for Health Extension Program. Trained a new group of Peace Corps volunteers for service in Nicaragua using train the trainers’ methodology. Performed pre-training research in Nicaragua and Honduras; curriculum design, field training, site selection, counseling, and final evaluation. Training included HIV/AIDS and child survival strategies, cross-cultural adaptation, sanitation, growth monitoring, supplemental feeding for malnourished children, development issues, and history of Central America.
Employee Anti-Discrimination Outreach Project, Catholic Charities (Amityville, New York) 1992–1993
Project Manager. Directed a statewide project funded by the New York Department of Social Services using U.S. Department of Justice funds to educate immigrant workers on their legal and human rights in the workplace. Designed and facilitated a bilingual training module.
Johns Hopkins University Institute for International Programs (Baltimore, Maryland) 1993
Technical Consultant. As part of a panel of experts on international health, evaluated proposals for funding child survival programs in Central America. Project was funded by USAID.
Peace Corps Public Health Nutrition Program (San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, C.A.) 1988–1991
Peace Corps Volunteer. Child survival projects completed included growth monitoring and treatment of malnourished children, designing and supervising a health promoter training course, a multi-community family garden project, latrinization, and potable water projects. Carried out development activities designed to promote an integrated approach to community development that included health and education components as well as infrastructure development. Activities included establishing PL-480 MCH programs with local MOH personnel; logistics for three visits by U.S. plastic surgeons for cleft palate and other operations; a women in development/small business project with a Mayan women’s group in poultry production; electrification of five communities and two school construction projects; wrote a proposal for a health and social effects research project; member of the Special Development Fund Committee in collaboration with USAID and CARE/Guatemala; value of projects completed was approximately $1 million.
Injury Prevention and Analysis Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY) 1985–1986
Research Collaborator. Research project in injury epidemiology/workers compensation. Wrote final report detailing differences among State workers compensation programs; effects on injury reporting.
Community General Hospital of Sullivan County (Harris, NY) 1983–1984
Administrative Resident. Managed grant from New York Blue Shield to carry out research and evaluation of motor vehicle mortality and morbidity; Sullivan County Emergency Medical System. Hired and supervised consultants, completed administrative residency.
EDUCATION
State University of New York at Albany
Doctoral student (part-time) in medical anthropology
Specializing in Mesoamerican studies
Columbia University School of Public Health
Health Administration Management Institute
Intensive health care management program
City University of New York, Hunter College
M.P.H. in community health education
State University of New York at Stony Brook
B.S. in social welfare
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
? American Public Health Association
? Guatemala Scholars Network
? National Council for International Health
? National Peace Corps Association
PUBLICATIONS
1 M. Damond,., A. Winters, L. Jack, Jr., D. Cropper, M. Londoño, and R. Stoddard. Commentary. Mobilizing Communities: Local Applications of the Diabetes Today National Training Center Project. J. Public Health Management Practice, 2003, November (Suppl.): S15–S18.
2 J. Reynolds, B. Pick, C. Runyan, and A. Winters. Evaluation of CORE Initiative Grantees. United States Agency for International Development/PPC/CDIE/ESPA, 2005, September.
3 DAC Peer Review Report; for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee; wrote and edited several sections including executive summary, USAID, 2006.
