Timor-Leste
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Filomena Marques de Oliveira
Youth Leadership Program, United States, 2021
Filomena Marques de Oliveira has been working with World Health Organization Timor-Leste as a program assistant in the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) department since 2019. Her job is to provide support in eliminating the neglected tropical diseases in Timor-Leste, particularly Lymphatic Filariasis and Yaws.
During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, she supported the surveillance team by disseminating information on infection prevention control to teachers and lecturers; she also provided COVID-19 case management training for health workers in national and referral hospitals. In addition, she supported the COVID-19 vaccine campaign and implementation in Timor-Leste. Filomena is an alumna of the Youth Leadership Program.