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Julie Klement brings more than 27 years of hands-on technical and managerial experience with international public health and humanitarian assistance programs. Her broad-based health, population, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS expertise includes work in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Russia, Newly Independent States, and Eastern Europe. In addition, she has worked with an extensive international network of private voluntary organizations, US and other governmental organizations and agencies, international and multilateral organizations, and universities. Ms. Klement, a senior retired Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had a distinguished 20 year career that included senior management positions in the Office of Health and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), the ANE, ENI, and LAC regional bureaus, and field experience in SE Asia.
At QED, Ms. Klement is currently Director of the five-year, USAID-funded the Global Health Technical Assistance (GH Tech) Project. In this capacity, she leads a team that provides a range of technical assistance in population and reproductive health, nutrition, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, for program assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation, and support to the Bureau for Global Health offices, regional and other bureaus, and field missions of USAID. Since April 2004, Ms. Klement has served as a member of QED’s senior management staff.
Before joining QED, Ms. Klement served as Deputy Director of the USAID-funded Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Health (BASICS II) Project and the Project Director for the USAID-funded Monitoring, Evaluation and Design Support (MEDS) Project.
Ms. Klement has demonstrated ability in successful public and private organizational liaison and coordination, policy dialogue, organizational development and restructuring, strategic planning, project design, and regional and country program management and implementation. Ms. Klement is professionally recognized as an accomplished leader with strong program, financial/budget, and administrative management in public health, reproductive health, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS programs. Ms. Klement has an MS in Human Nutrition from the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons; and an ABD in International Public Health from Columbia University, School of Public Health.
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