ASHA

Purpose

The Aurum health and science advisory unit of the Aurum Institute aims to:

Fulfil Aurum’s vision and mission through short-term projects
Provide global health and science expertise to countries and organizations, for example:

Grant writing support
Technical assistance to programs and countries for implementation and start up
Program evaluations
Program closeouts

3.Generate new business and partnerships in Africa and beyond

South – south partnerships
Capacity building and skills transfer from within Africa

ASHA can leverage a diverse team to respond rapidly to programmatic needs in the health sector

Program implementation (TB, HIV, NCD, NTD)

Planning interventions
Implementation start-up
Evaluations
Policy and guideline development

Research operations

Statistical support
Database development and support
Study start ups
Clinical trial management

Quality improvement activities

Material development
Quality advisor training
Improvement projects
Root cause analyses
Change packages

Technical and health management Training

Material development
Training delivery and logistics
Train the trainer approaches
Continuous skills assessments

Grant support to NGOs

Proposal writing
Grant start up, including monitoring and evaluation systems
Closeout support personnel and reports

ASHA’s flexibility lies in its access to a diverse pool of resources

International team with diverse background
Experience across TB and HIV endemic countries
Immediate deployment to needs for countries in the region and beyond
Language ability in English, French, Portuguese, German, and many African languages
Research, evaluation and implementation experience tied into one
Cost effective support from TA located in Africa
Country experience, knowledge and relationships with MOH and local partners

Staff pool:

Biostatisticians
Health economists
Epidemiologists
Research program specialists
Research pharmacists
Monitoring and Evaluation
experts
Database developers
mHealth experts
TB and HIV health experts
Occupational health experts
Health care trainers
Quality improvement advisors
Infectious disease specialists
Health access experts
Grant management experts

Examples of past projects

Guideline development for various countries
Education/communication material development, including animated content
Management development course
COVID-19 workplace preparedness
Surveillance amongst workplace employees in various industries for COVID-19 response
Contact tracing and investigations systems for Tuberculosis and COVID-19
Developing and running national Think Tanks to coordinate country responses
Developing DHIS 2 instances and REDCAP databases
Evaluation of health projects
mHealth initiatives
TB and HIV program delivery
Clinical and implementation science research