Caitlyn Bradburn

Welcome! My name is Caitlyn Bradburn and I am a training and curriculum design consultant in the public and global health spheres. Please contact me to explore ways we can work together.

I love creating interactive, engaging, and fun trainings for adult learners in the public and global health fields. I’m an enthusiastic trainer and instructor of adult learners with varying education and literacy levels.  My experience ranges from creating trainings for clinicians and community health workers, to field and management staff.

I have extensive experience, to the tune of 15+ years, in training program design, development, and facilitation. My areas of expertise include curriculum writing, training of trainers, and development of materials to support learning including job-aids, reference tools, and decision-making guides. I am an adept collaborator with cross-functional teams of global stakeholders, program managers, subject matter experts, instructional designers, and web programmers to develop high-quality, high-impact training materials for learners.

I am particularly passionate about Community Health Worker programs,  HIV prevention and treatment efforts, reproductive health, and leadership and capacity building.

Skills:

·     Training
·     Curriculum design
·     Facilitation of trainings, work planning, and strategic visioning
·     Training of Trainers
·     Creation of job-aids and on-the-job training/mentorship

Areas of interest:

·     Community Health Worker programming and training
·     Behavior and social change
·     Capacity building
·     HIV treatment, prevention, and counseling
·     Reproductive health and family planning
·     Adolescent health
·     Leadership and management development

Countries where I have worked:

·     Mozambique
·     Cameroon
·     Rwanda
·     Madagascar
·     South Africa
·     Malawi
·     Sierra Leone
·     Lesotho
·     Haiti
·     Navajo Nation
·     Uganda
·     Kenya
·     The Maldives
·     Thailand
·     The Bahamas
·     United States

I am accepting new contracts and work opportunities.  Let’s work together!

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Qualifications

  • 15+ years of progressive and social justice minded public health practice.
  • Skilled instructional designer with extensive experience in training design, curriculum development, facilitation, and capacity building for national, local, and community-based health interventions, systems, and programs.
  • Resourceful problem solver with demonstrated skills in community fieldwork, particularly in low-resource settings.
  • Proven success at communicating technical and sensitive topics with the homeless, prison inmates, sex workers, and youth living with HIV among other communities.
Independent Consultant
12/17-Present

Partners In Health:

      • Training lead for the COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative. Trained 1500 case investigators and contact tracing who made 10,000 calls per-day to encourage safe isolation, COVID testing, and monitoring of isolation and quarantine.
      • Redesigned and updated mental health training materials to allow for adaptation and adoption across the Partners In Health sites.

Americares: Hurricane Dorian Relief.  In partnership with the Ministry of Health and UNFPA, developed a Community Health Volunteer program in eight Dorian-affected communities across five Cays in the Abacos, Bahamas.

ICAP at Columbia University:

      • Worked with the OPTIMIZE team to design and write curriculum for training health care workers in African PEPFAR-supported countries on the introduction of Dolutegravir into national programs for HIV treatment and management. 
      • Developed training materials for health care workers on the introduction of LPV/r granules and pellets for pediatric HIV treatment. Developed caregiver-facing counseling cards on pediatric HIV treatment. 

ICAP at Columbia University – Eswatini: Revamped the Health Research Training Program to be handed over to the Ministry of Health for implementation.

RTI International: Global facilitator for the USAID Introduction to the Program Cycle,  a five-day introductory course to project management. 

UNICEF Maldives: Trained health care workers nationwide on adolescent HIV prevention. Designed and delivered a five-day interactive training and supported initiatives to engage young people in HIV prevention activities. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Haiti: Developed and led a three-day leadership and management training for 15 senior managers.

Lifelong AIDS Alliance:  Project and development support for the Seattle AIDS Walk and Dining Out for Life. 

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Blog

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Book Report: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman’s book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, chronicles the care and treatment of a Hmong child with epilepsy who is living in the United States. At every turn, there are clashes of culture, understanding, language, norms, and even understanding of what “health” might mean. No one is right and everyone is …

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Book Report: Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

Instinctually, many of us may think that motivation at work is driven by money. Or maybe power. Or, in the case of some of us (ah hem) the mission of the organization for which we are working. Daniel Pink, a smarty-pants lawyer-turned-motivation-researcher has spent four decades researching the idea of motivation. In his book, Drive: …

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Work Samples + Publication

I worked with Partners In Health to develop a system of mental health care across four cadres of healthcare workers in Haiti. The earthquake in Haiti made evident that long-term, durable mental health care was severely needed. I worked to develop several of these trainings in English and in French.

I worked with ICAP at Columbia University to develop training materials on the introduction of Dolutegravir for the treatment of HIV as a part of the OPTIMIZE project.  The trainings are for healthcare workers in PEPFAR supported countries across Africa.

My paper, Risky Business: Condom Failure as Experienced by Female Sex Workers in Mombassa Kenya was published in the Journal of Culture, Health & Sexuality in September, 2016. 

I was a supporting author on a paper called Implementation of the Navajo fruit and vegetable prescription programme to improve access to healthy foods in a rural food desert which was published in August 2020 in the Journal of Public Health Nutrition.

Contact

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