godknnows_gk

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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.
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Zimbabwe
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
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Presidenta de la red de alumni de Junior Achievement Argentina 2020 - 2022 / Miembro del hub de Buenos Aires de Global Shaper
MY MOTTO: If you are doing your best, you are already making the world a better place!
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