Health

• Management Advisor (full time in field), Nepal Health Development Project (HDP) - August 1990 - July 1995; CIDA bilateral project with University of Calgary and Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine and Nepal Ministry of Health.
• Coordinator/Evaluator, Nepal Rural Health Worker Development Project - 1999 - May, 2003; ACCC project with Thompson Rivers University and Kathmandu Bishwabidyaalaya and Dhulikhel Hospital; with collaboration of Scheer Memorial Hospital, the Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children and the Lions Eye Care Centre.
• Project Manager (full time field), Education Health, WatSan and Local Governance Project in the NWFP, Pakistan– 2008 on. Health component involved improvement of service delivery in basic health in districts.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Articles

• Process evaluation: a field method for tracking those elusive development results. Special edition, CJDS (Canadian Journal of Development Studies) 1997; 805-834 XVIII, (co-authored with S. A. Robinson, P. Cox, A. Purdey, B. R. Prasai).
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• Response to environmentally caused Health emergencies. JNMA 1993; 31:233-238
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• Disasters...Without Health Personnel. JNMA 1995; 33:1-3
• Theory and Practice. JIOM 1994; 15-4-46; 359-365
• The surgical camp innovation in continuing Medical Education. JNMA 1993: 31:265-273 (co-authored with D. Allison)
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• The differences in the district, JIOM (Journal of the Institute of Medicine)1993; 15-1-43: 19-29
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• Keeping Doctors in District Health Services: The roles of the community and profession, JIOM 1993 Jan-Mar; 15(1): 172-3 (co-authored with G. Toohill) http://www.hellis.org/ [Index Medicus Metasearch]
• Inventory Basics For Our District Health System, JNMA 1992; 30: 106-155 (co-authored with D.B. Thapa)
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• Proposal for District Health Collaboration Group, JNMA (Journal of the Nepal Medical Association) 1991; 29:233-240

Books, book chapters and published proceedings

• The differences in the district, JIOM (Journal of the Institute of Medicine)

Critique, review and editing

• "The Calgary Health Connection", (consulting editor); chapter in the autobiography of Dr. Bhishma Raj Prasai; 1st edition, Kathmandu, Nepal; 2002.
• "The Quest for Health" (consulting editor); Dr. Hemang Dixit; Educational Enterprise; Kathmandu, Nepal; 1999.http://www.hdixit.org.np/quest/quest.htm

Selected Manuals and major reports

• "Final Report of the Nepal Rural Health Worker Development Project" In collaboration with Kathmandu Bishwabidyaalaya and Dhulikhel Hospital” TRU Project 17-609-940109; ACCC Project 748A 1999 to 2003; May 1, 2003
• "Refresher Training Curriculum for Auxiliary Health Worker" (contributing author); 2nd edition; Health Development Project, Kathmandu, Nepal; 1994; 100 pages
• "District Health Emergency Plan"; 4 editions; Health Development Project and HMG/Ministry of Health, Surkhet, Nepal; 1992; 100 pages.
• "Refresher Training Curriculum for Assistant Nurse Midwife" (contributing author and editor); 2nd edition; Health Development Project, Kathmandu, Nepal; 1992; 100 pages, (adapted in 1997 by HMG/Nepal Ministry of Health, Health Training Centre).
• "Refresher Training Curriculum for Health Post In-charges" (contributing author and compiler); 2nd edition; Health Development Project, Kathmandu, Nepal; 1991; 95 pages
• "Monitoring Indicators-Community Level", Nepal Health Development Project; 1991
• "Monitoring Indicators-District Health Level", Nepal Health Development Project; 1991
• "Surkhet District Health Survey" (contributor), Health Development Project and Nepal Ministry of Health, Surkhet, Nepal; 1990.
• "Wilderness First Aid Manual"; (major contributing author); Canadian Red Cross Society (CRCS) Calgary, Canada; 1987 & 1989; 80 pages.

Presentations

• “The Relationship of Ethnocentrism and Ethnobureaucracy to the Health Services of the Marginalized: The Roma of Slovakia”; International Seminar: Assessment of Marginality and Integration Among Disadvantaged Groups (Zist’ofanie Marginality a Integrácie Medzi Znevýhodnenými Skupinami), Presov University, Presov, Slovakia, September 26, 2003.
• “Health Service Issues Affecting the Periphery in Nepal and Other Asian Countries Compared with the Context of the Roma of Slovakia”; European Union PHARE Twinning Programme's Conference on "Improvement of the Situation of the Roma in the Slovak Republic"; Kosice, Slovakia. March 28, 2003.
• Third Congress of Clinical Pathologists of Nepal, November 7-9, 2000.
• “Education for Quality Care (Nurses Educational Conference)”; Dhulikhel Medical Institute, Dhulikhel, Nepal; December 7, 1999
• “Participatory Development Project Research, Evaluation and Management (PREM) with a Health Project”; Michigan State University's Seminar on International Social Science Research Centre for Advanced Study on International Development / Ford Foundation; East Lansing, Michigan, USA; April 4-6,1996.
• First Congress of the Association of Clinical Pathologists of Nepal, February 16-18, 1995
• “Participatory Health Development in the Periphery”; United Mission to Nepal, Community Development and Health Projects Community Development Concepts Seminar, Kathmandu, Nepal; July 6-7, 1995
• "Response to environmentally caused Health emergencies"; 17th All Nepal Medical Conference, Butwal, February 8-10, 1995
• “Ambulance Equipment & Maintenance--Emergency Care Management” for Nepal Ministry of Health & T.U. Institute of Medicine, Sano Thimi, Nepal 1994
• “District Disaster Management” to medical doctors, part of Certificate Course in Emergency Care Management sponsored by the Ministry of Health and T.U. Institute of Medicine, Sano Thimi, Nepal; February 28, March 1, 6, 7-1994
• First International Surgical Conference of the Society of Surgeons of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal; January 8-10, 1994
• 16th All Nepal Medical Conference, Kathmandu; 3-6 March, 1993
• "The differences in the district”; First International Conference on the Role of General Practitioners in Developing Countries, Kathmandu, Nepal; February 1-4, 1993
• Nepal Medical Association 15th All Nepal Medical Conference, Biratnagar, February 13-14, 1991

Curricula, facilitation guides, major proposal development etc.

• Proposal development of: “Alleviating HIV/AIDS Psychosocial Impacts through Mental Health Human Resource Development”; Thompson Rivers University, National University of Lesotho, Mohlomi National Psychiatric Hospital 2006
• Proposal development of “Nursing Resources for Education And Capacity for Health (REACH)”; Thompson Rivers University, Nursing Association of Nepal; 2003
• Proposal development of “Rural Oriented Nurse Education (RONE)”; Thompson Rivers University, University of Victoria; Kwantlen University College, Columbia Union College; Loma Linda University (USA), Avondale College (Australia), Mission College (Thailand), Kathmandu University, Nepal Nursing Council; Dhulikhel Medical Institute; Dhulikhel Hospital; Scheer Memorial Hospital; 2002
• “Ambulance Equipment & Maintenance--Emergency Care Management” for Nepal Ministry of Health & T.U. Institute of Medicine, Sano Thimi, Nepal 1994
• “District Disaster Management” to medical doctors, part of Certificate Course in Emergency Care Management sponsored by the Ministry of Health and T.U. Institute of Medicine, Sano Thimi, Nepal; February 28, March 1, 6, 7-1994

Media

• "Health System and SARS Management in China”; interviewed on Radio Free Asia, May 2003.
• Advisor, translator and participant in CIDA film "The Health Development Project", Nepal, 1994.