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Doctor Bernstein (Dr. Bob) is a former US Public Health Service Medical Epidemiologist with more than 25 years experience in teaching, research, and consultative technical assistance in the principles and practice of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in the USA and in more than 20 low-income developing countries in Asia and Africa. He served on two DHHS assignments to USAID/Washington, serving as a Cognizant Technical Officer (CTO) and providing technical assistance to Missions in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia - as a Technical Advisor in AIDS and Child Survival (TAACS) in the USAID/HPN Division of AIDS from 1991-1993 and as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Bureau for Africa on prevention, surveillance, and management of HIV/AIDS, other STDs and HIV-Related TB from 1996-1998. On assignments to WHO (Indonesia and Philippines), UNICEF (Indonesia, Thailand and Pakistan), and USAID (Indonesia, Tanzania, and numerous other countries in Africa and Asia), he has served as a Team Leader, Project/Program Manager, and Senior Technical Advisor helping international development assistance agencies and their MoH and other implementing partners to build sustainable epidemiological, leadership and management capacity for evaluating and improving the programming and performance of their disease/injury prevention and control strategies, especially for protecting and promoting Maternal, Neonatal, and Under-Five Child Health.
In December 2004, he completed a 3-year contract with Management Sciences for Health (www.msh.org) for a USAID-supported program of technical assistance for decentralization and improvement of the performance of essential public health services in Indonesia. Since January 2005, he has been serving as a short-term consultant to WHO and MoH/Indonesia (for Tsunami Response) and as a short-term consultant to USAID, MSH and MoH/Vietnam (for HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment) while based in Singapore.
Dr. Bob has taught Public Health and Preventive Medicine courses in various subject areas at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia where he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of International Health and at George Washington University's School of Public Health and Health Services where he served as an advisor to the Chair of the Department of International Health on Curriculum Development and as an advisor on Graduate Student Theses. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Sydney's George Institute of International Health.
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