Background: past work and consultancies...

A leader on public health campaigning and advocacy with substantial engagement with major international and national development organisations to improve and develop cross-cultural health communication strategies.

Experienced manager capable of building strong teams and of attracting high-level external partnerships.

Consultant with significant national and international expertise in health communication for developing countries.

 

Professional Record
UNAIDS	June 2007 ongoing				Consultant on UNAIDS secretariat Technical Consultation on Social Change Communication and HIV Prevention. Advising on agenda, resources, participants, and developing background paper and final reports
World AIDS Campaign	Jan 2005 ongoing				Since Jan 2005 a consultant for World AIDS Campaign, and for 12 months acting as Communication and Mobilisation manager - taking communication for social change work to scale.
Nelson Mandela Foundation	July 2005 to October 2005				Commissioned in July 2005 to rework the NMF AIDS Programme strategy with emphasis on mobilisation and communication.
KFW	Oct 2005 to Jan 2006				Commissioned by KFW, the German development bank, to go and assess anti-stigma mass-media campaigns for funding. Caribbean and Central American regions.
UNAIDS	Dec 2005 to April 2006				Commissioned by UNAIDS to contribute to the Global Epidemic Update 2006
WHO	July to September 2005				Contracted by WHO to develop communication materials in Tanzania , responding to health infrastructure constraints.
DFID	Feb to April 2006				Supporting DFID develop best practice and introductory materials on HIV Communication.
UNAIDS	Jan 2005 to April 2005				Contracted by UNAIDS to rework the strategy of the World AIDS Campaign.
Exchange	Jan 2006 to Sept 2006				Conceptualising health communication strategies in relation to universal access - producing documents on these issues.
Panos Institute	Jan 2005 Ongoing				Senior AIDS Programme Advisor. Providing strategic advice and support for to Panos AIDS Programme .
Panos Institute	2002-2005				AIDS Programme Director. Providing leadership and coordination for the Panos AIDS Programme including developing and finding funding for the Panos Global AIDS Prog ramme. This programme now works in 15 countries through 7 offices with an annual budget of around £1m .
Panos Institute	2001-2002				Programme Officer for Panos Institute HIV/ AIDS Programme , leading on HIV Communication work and seconded to Southern Panos offices for strategic support.
Panos Institute	2000-2001				Freelance writer, initiating and leading UNAIDS/Panos Information Project on Young Men and HIV.
Kara Counselling and Training Trust, Choma , Zambia			1998-1999		Medical anthropology investigation on VCT and young people's masculinities for Zambian HIV/AIDS NGO.
Kara Counselling and Training Trust, Choma , Zambia		1998			Project Manager, setting up the now acclaimed Umoyo Project, an HIV/AIDS project for young women.
Lancaster University				1997-1998	University medical anthropology seminar tutor (part time).
Kara Counselling and Training Trust, Lusaka , Zambia				1996-1997	Co-ordinator on pilot project for young women vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Mother Teresa's Mission for the Dying Destitute, Calcutta				1991	Volunteer at hospice for terminally ill

 

Other consultations and formal advice include:

Treatment Action Campaign: Health communications advice and review, paid for by Nelson Mandela Foundation. (Sept 2005)

Stop TB Partnership: Ongoing participation in the communications and social mobilisation working group of Stop TB (2004 to present)

World AIDS Campaign: Civil society and national AIDS authorities consultations in Kenya , South Africa, Nigeria and Zambia on building communication for social change for universal access (Feb to Nov 2006)

UNICEF: Panos consultant providing advice to country communication strategies and new framework for Communication for Social Change ( Nairobi and Lusaka 2003 - 2004).

WHO: Panos consultant providing health communication support to 3 by 5 WHO team (Jan to May 2004).

World Bank: Advising on southern media outreach strategies and development of AIDS Media Portal (Mar to May 2004).

ASEAN: Panos consultant assisting in the facilitation of major meeting on role of youth and civil society in South East Asia ( Malaysia , 2003).

UNAIDS: Panos consultant at African Development Forum on AIDS and Youth ( Addis Ababa , 2000).

Stop TB Working Group: Contributing to development of communication guidelines for Global Strategy on TB (2004 - ongoing).

DFID AIDS Communication Strategy: Part of expert group providing input and advice for DFID AIDS Communication Strategy (2003).

Events

A variety of presentations on health communication including to Netherlands AIDS Conference Plenary (Dec 2006) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (May 2003); Brunel University ( London , 2003); Presentations to Commonweath Institute ( London 2003 and 2005); Johns Hopkins University (2004); WHO/UNAIDS Geneva 2004.

International Meeting on AIDS Campaigning and Advocacy, speaker and facilitator March 2005, April 2006, July 2007)

World Bank Dialogue on Civil Society Participation in an exclusive consultation ( Windsor , 2004).

Communication panellist for World Bank Spring Meeting ( Washington DC , 2004).

Co-organised and co-facilitated meeting with WHO for Integrated AIDS Communication on Access to Treatments (Geneva 2004).

Critical Challenges for HIV Communication, Symposium in Rockefeller Foundation , US . 2002

Organiser for Communication for Development Roundtable ( Managua , 2001).

Organised and spoke in many sessions on health communication in Durban International AIDS Conference July 2000, Barcelona IAC 2002 and Thailand IAC 2004, Toronto IAC 2006.

WHO Young Men and HIV Workshop (Pretoria 2000).

Facilitated meeting for media and policymakers in ( Swaziland , 2000).

Coordinated Panos HIV media and policymakers' activities in Malawi , Zambia , Swaziland and Zimbabwe for World AIDS Campaign 2000 "Men make a difference".

 

E-mail: tscalway@iphc.org.uk