Background

Dr Phone has had a long association with Burnet Institute Myanmar since 2007.

Appointed the Country Representative for the Myanmar Program in June 2013, Dr Phone is based in Yangon, Myanmar.

Previously, he was Program Coordinator with responsibility for overall management of Burnet Institute Myanmar’s programs.

He started his career as medical officer at public hospitals in district areas under the Ministry of Health, Myanmar after completing MBBS course from the University of Medicine 1 (formerly called Institute of Medicine 1) in Yangon.

His previous professional experiences included roles as the Business Unit Manager, GlaxoSmithKline and product manager in two multinational pharmaceuticals, Les Laboratoires Servier and GlaxoSmithKline.

Under a Humphrey Fellowship program granted by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, he studied at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Administration, Syracuse University, New York State in 2011-2012. He completed his diploma course in Leadership of International and Non‐government Organizations.

Qualifications

• MBBS - University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar

Projects (20)

Current (4)

• ANCP: Improving maternal and child health outcomes in Myanmar
  Addressing critical gaps in health service delivery and health care seeking behaviour.
• Collaborative Community Checklists for Immunisation (CCCI)
  Adapting the WHO Immunisation Checklist to increase the uptake of immunisation in Myanmar.
• Evidence and action for malaria elimination in Myanmar
  Engaging public, private, military and civilian partners for targeted malaria elimination testing in Myanmar.
• Optimal community-delivered malaria elimination models for the Greater Mekong Sub-region
  Developing an elimination model that is acceptable, operational, and cost-effective across GMS countries

Past (16)

• A study to improve the health and rights of Myanmar men who have sex with men
  This research evaluated the effectiveness of ‘Link Up’ services, in men who have sex with men.
• Adolescent reproductive health in Myanmar
  Adolescent reproductive health in Myanmar
• ANCP: Prevention and care for drug-resistant TB in Myanmar
  Implementation and evaluation of a model of drug-resistant TB care to facilitate scale-up in Myanmar.
• Effectiveness of repellent on malaria incidence in SE Myanmar
  A project to determine whether repellent delivered by volunteers will reduce malaria incidence.
• Enhancing education to reduce harms associated with drug use in Yangon, Myanmar
  This project is supporting harm reduction and health care for people who inject drugs and who use drugs.
• Harm reduction among People who Inject Drugs in Myanmar
  Aims to prevent the transmission of HIV among young people, students, migrant and transport workers.
• Ma Ma Oo - Maternal and Child Health Radio Series Myanmar
  Establishing a health radio program for effective community messaging regarding maternal and child health.
• Malaria services for Myanmar's most hard to reach populations
  Assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in isolated townships.
• Maternal Neonatal and Child Health support in Magway Region, Myanmar
  Improved MCH services via support to Township Health Departments and community based interventions.
• MNCH support in Myanmar's Northern Shan State
  This project involves Namhsam, Namtu and Manton townships.
• National TB Research Agenda Workshop for Myanmar: 4-5 September 2014
  Burnet Institute supported the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) Myanmar to design and implement a national TB research agenda workshop to set the TB research priorities and road map for implementation for the next five years.
• Pathways to post abortion care in Myanmar
  Understanding women's perspectives on accessing post-abortion care at public hospitals.
• Socioeconomic impact of HIV at household level in Myanmar
  This study sought to gain a deeper understanding of the socioeconomic impact of HIV in Myanmar by looking at individual and community groups.
• Strengthening Monastic School Education in Myanmar
  Building capacity and improving quality of the monastic school system via community involvement.
• WASH: Interventions for monastic schools in Myanmar
  Evaluating the impact of a water, sanitation and hygiene program across three states of Myanmar.
• Working with men to address HIV in Myanmar
  Reducing HIV-related risk, vulnerability and impact among men who have sex with men in Myanmar.

News Articles (8)

2019 (2)

• High-level support for Myanmar School Health Promotion Program
• Focus on adolescent health in Myanmar

2018 (1)

• Myanmar services in safe hands

2016 (1)

• New collaboration to address hepatitis C in Myanmar

2015 (1)

• Myanmar: Improving public health in a sustainable way

2014 (2)

• 2014 in Review: January - June
• Burnet launches three-year Myanmar program

2013 (1)

• Burnet signs MoU with Myanmar Ministry of Health