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Christopher Masah

Registered Nursing Officer (RID TB Nurse)- Public Health Team

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christopher.masah@burnet.edu.au
Christopher Masah

Background

Christopher is a Registered General Nursing Officer who had been working with different non-government and government organizations including the mining sectors for more than six years. He is also a certified TB & HIV nursing officer having acquired certificates in DRTB and DSTB, and pre and post counselling and testing. He joined Burnet since 30th June 2022 as a public health nurse under the RID-TB program, working in Daru.

Awards

  • 2021- Jim Robinson Jnr HSES Award Winner from Oilsearch Limited
  • 2014- Highest grade for Bachelor of Nursing Course

Positions

  • 2022: Registered General Nursing Officer (TB Nurse), Burnet Institute
  • 2021- 2022: Nursing officer Acute Care – Medivac Team - Moro OSL-Santos Clinic
  • 2021: Nursing Officer: International SOS Lihir
  • 2020- 2021: Nursing Officer: NCDC Health (Specialised TB Officer) + Certified HIV/AIDS Pre & Post testing & Counselling
  • 2017- 2019: Nursing Officer: Family Health International 360 (Fhi360) (Specialised TB Officer) + Certified HIV/AIDS Pre & Post testing counsellor
  • 2016- 2017: Nursing Officer (Medecins Sans Frontieres France (MSFF)
  • 2015- 2016: Officer In Charge – Kiba Clinic Hargy Oil Palms Ltd (WNBP)

Burnet publications

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01 Sep 2024

Continuous quality improvement in a community-wide TB screening and prevention programme in Papua New Guinea

Public Health Action

Tess Keam, Naomi Pank, Ar Kar Aung, Alexa Murray, Kailiang Huang, Jane Greig, Geoff Chan, Christopher Masah, K. Kaison, Scott Umali

01 Sep 2024

Continuous quality improvement in a community-wide TB screening and prevention programme in Papua New Guinea

Public Health Action

Tess Keam, Naomi Pank, Ar Kar Aung, Alexa Murray, Kailiang Huang, Jane Greig, Geoff Chan, Christopher Masah, K. Kaison, Scott Umali

01 Sep 2024

Continuous quality improvement in a community-wide TB screening and prevention programme in Papua New Guinea

Public Health Action

Tess Keam, Naomi Pank, Ar Kar Aung, Alexa Murray, Kailiang Huang, Jane Greig, Geoff Chan, Christopher Masah, K. Kaison, Scott Umali

Current projects

Systematic Community-Wide Engagement and Elimination Project for Tuberculosis (SWEEP-TB) in Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea

Systematic Community-Wide Engagement and Elimination Project for Tuberculosis (SWEEP-TB) in Daru, Western Province, Papua New Guinea

This community-centred public health project will screen all residents of Daru, Papua New Guinea to detect, treat and prevent tuberculosis.

Past projects

RID-TB: Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant TB in Western Province, Papua New Guinea

RID-TB: Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant TB in Western Province, Papua New Guinea

We're a partner in a multi-stakeholder response to the major tuberculosis epidemic in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

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