Joseph has been working in Rwanda healthcare system for more than 5 years. His experiences range from Clinical and public health field and Research. He has a vivid hands-on experience in project activities coordination, implementing in the community as well as in humanitarian context. He has a Master’s in public health specialization in Epidemiology and Disease Control and Bachelors’ degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from University of Rwanda, collage of medicine and health Sciences. He is a licensed Nutrition Practitioner by Rwanda Allied health professional council and awarded training certificates in Adolescent Nutrition, Pediatric Nutrition, Community nutrition, and in data analysis tools (STATA, SPSS, and Atlas ti, Epi info).
Joseph is a stronger believer in the role of Modern Food and Nutrition Science in prevention, management, and control NCDs. He is mission is to establish at which level the primary NCDs risk factors lead to secondary risk factors such as elevated blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, lipid profile in Rwanda and across the region.
To attain and accomplish this, he has started a new chapter with Lifesten health where, he is a charge of programs and community engagement. At Lifesten health, we have identified that, more individuals are facing challenges of accessing preventive services from expert-led interventions and programs. That is why we have flipped the coin, where we are using technology as a key enabler, making remote and accessible cardiovascular health education and screening possible for the population and reach to more including remote areas where interventions are not accessible by the communities. To make it happen, I am in charge of and I lead community programs this include but not limited to non-communicable disease screening both remote and in the community, community mobilization and education, leading joint community activities with our partners, and Research-data collection coordination.
The value I am adding to lifesten health is significant as a clinician and public health expert. My expertise plays a huge role and strategies to approach the community through community centered interventions, training and mentorship of lifesten public health agents, and mapping valuable partners to put effort together and provide long term and sustainable interventions to prevent diseases and promote good health to community to fulfill their potential.
With Lifesten, I have learnt the importance of working in a team and effective communication to achieve the designed milestones, in addition, planning and coordinating field work and managing partners by fulfilling their expectations. Last but not least, when people intend to move forward challenges and obstacle. I have encountered a couple of challenges on the journey to building lifesten. To begin with, technology in health is new to the expert involved in health, community, and government. Lacking policies that regulate technology in health is a challenge, few companies are involved in this area and insufficient findings. Lastly, the community still relying on old schools of delivering health interventions and lack of adopting to emerging technology which is also not evenly geographically evenly distributed. Therefore, lifesten health will keep integrating its interventions in the community by bring new community-centered solutions to reach to many.
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