YouthLead

Overview

Why do you want to join youthpower

How I want to make an Impact

To gain knowledge, experience, and exposure to issues affecting youth from different social, economic. religious and demographic factors. The opportunity will widen my understanding of how social determinants can affect the quality of life of the youths and craft strategies to address these for a greater impact.

Short biography

Godknows grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a qualified and experienced public health programmer, strategist, and mental health advocate. He is a competent researcher whose interests lie in the interface of public health and social categorizations, namely gender, wellness, and public health strategies. He has read for a Public Health Promotion Degree and holds a master’s in strategic management. With his enthusiasm for Global Public Health, he has also pursued a Post Graduate Certification in Global Public Health, Epidemiology and Disease Control. He is also a wellness coach and possesses skills in the management of Child Trauma through a Healing Play, a psychiatric concept. In addition to that, he also has sound knowledge in public health promotion, strategy, youth and adolescent health and rights, monitoring and evaluation, non-communicable disease management and prevention through behaviour change modification; social behaviour change communication, and evidence-based advocacy. In his spare time, he does voluntary work with youths in his community, motivational speaking, and highly involved in advocacy dialogues. To date, he has published several health research papers with the most recent one being accepted for publication at the World Congress of Non-Communicable diseases, 2020. He is also an Executive Committee member of the Health Promotion Association of Zimbabwe (HEPAZ) since 2015.

Assistance Offered

Research assistance, Government relations, policy and advocacy efforts, Business planning and strategy advice, Emergency assistance

Assistance OfferedResearch assistance, Government relations, policy and advocacy efforts, Business planning and strategy advice, Emergency assistance

Groups

All YouthLead Members and Alumni, YouthLead Ambassadors and Peer Advisors, Cohort 3, Mentorship Initiative Discussion Group, YouthLead Ambassadors and Peer Advisors, Cohort 4

Networks

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Where did you hear about us?

Friends

Country

Zimbabwe

Sectors of Interest

Topics of Interest

Sectors of Interest

Topics of Interest

Other Interests Agriculture Food Security; Economic Growth, Trade and Entrepreneurship; Democracy Human Rights and Governance; Environment: Public Health; Emergency Response and Humanitarian Assistance:

Education

Master of Science in Strategic Management, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe
Bachelor of Science in Health Education and Health Promotion, University of Zimbabwe
Certificate in Child Trauma Management: Jacaranda Program-Refuge Zimbabwe
COVID-19 Contact Tracing, John Hopkins University
Challenges of Global Health, Duke University

Languages spoken

My Connections

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Member

MY MOTTO: Make use of every opportunity to make a change that matters.

NETWORKS: All YouthLead Members and Alumni, YouthLead Ambassadors and Peer Advisors, Cohort 3, Mentorship Initiative Discussion Group

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My Connections

Maria Fernanda Montes Ribeiro

Team Leader in AIESEC in Brazil and International Relations Manager in AIESEC in Costa Rica. Founder of "Vote Nelas Fortaleza". Mobilizer for UNICEF Brazil. ISFiT Ambassador. Volunteer teacher. Researcher on gender issues.

MY MOTTO: Believing in youth to believe in change.

NETWORKS: All YouthLead Members and Alumni, YouthLead Ambassadors and Peer Advisors, Cohort 3

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My Connections