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Zeshi Fisher

Technical Officer

Background

Zeshi is a midwife with expertise in community and tertiary education, health service quality improvement, program design and management, community development, organisational governance, impact measurement and health management information systems. She has a strong background in working with non-government, government, and international donor partners.

Zeshi leads and provides technical support to midwifery, sexual reproductive health, and measurement-related projects within the GWNH Working Group, with a focus on the Asia Pacific Region.

Appointments

  • 2022 – current: Member, International Consortium on Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights
  • 2021 – current: Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
  • 2015 – current: Board Member, Barefoot Initiative
  • 2017: International Programs Committee Member, Sight for All

Positions

  • 2020 – Current: Technical Officer, Global Women’s and Newborn’s Health, Burnet Institute
  • 2020 – 2021: Individual consultant, World Health Organization
  • 2019 – 2020: Impact and Design Manager, KIT International
  • 2015 – 2019: Program Manager, Birthing Kit Foundation Australia
  • 2016 – 2018: Topic Coordinator and Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University
  • 2013 – 2016: Registered Midwife, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA Health
  • 2011 – 2013: Maternal Child Health and Family Planning Advisor, CCT-Health, Timor-Leste
  • 2010 – 2011: Community Health Educator, SIPPA, Solomon Islands
  • 2006 – 2010: Registered Midwife, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, SA Health
  • 2004 – 2008 Community Development Volunteer, Barefoot Initiative/APDA, Ethiopia

Qualifications

  • 2013: Certificate of Sexual Health – Theory
  • 2009: Master of Health and International Development
  • 2005: Bachelor of Midwifery

Awards

  • 2006: Recognition of Midwifery Excellence Award, Australian College of Midwives, SA
  • 2005 Australian College of Midwives Prize for Midwifery, Flinders University

Projects (1)

Current (1)

  • Transformative Agenda for Women, Adolescents and Youth in the Pacific: Strengthening Health Management Information Systems