Christian Mazimpaka

Christian Mazimpaka is a Summer in the Field Fellow, 2024, and a DrPH Candidate in the Public Health program at Boston University. He also serves as an Evaluation Coordinator at BUSPH’s School Health Institute for Education and Leadership Development (SHIELD).

For his Summer in the Field Fellowship, Christian will complete an internship studying the coverage and integration of Rwanda Mass Drug Administration (MDA) program for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis into the primary care system and recommendations for program sustainability. He will employ the WHO Building Blocks Framework, focusing on six core components: service delivery, health workforce, information systems, access to essential medicines, health system financing and leadership/governance. Christian will collect quantitative data from program reports and program planning documents requested from the Neglect Tropical Diseases (NTD) program at the Ministry of Health and Rwanda Biomedical Center and collect qualitative data through key informants with NTD program stakeholders in Rwanda.