Qand Safaa NPO candidate 2022-2023
I never expected that it would be possible for just a place and some people to make you someone else more creative and more ambitious, to set new goals for you, to meet people who are inspiring, ambitious, passionate, and dreamers from different places despite the distance that separates us, but our dreams and energies have gathered us spiritually and to make us discover that creativity and development have no limits!
There is a phrase that says: “It is a great loss to go to the end of the year with the same mind that you started with”.
Motivationalletter
Two years ago I was writing my first motivation letter for the Public health local officer position. I was more than excited to learn and contribute to the IFMSA impact. It was only three years ago, but it seems like an eternity when thinking about all the activities, experiences and people..
It says that success is contagious, whenever you are among successful people you will find yourself struggling to be like them and you will be,
So much has changed since thenstrugles, along with pandemic we were fighting . During these years, we have found out to what extent words shape our reality. The words we speak, the messages we get daily from the people surrounding us, news, social media.
This experience gave me a different motivation, it made me sure that I have a lot to offer within this wonderful association, that I have the ability to continue what my colleagues started and strive to develop.
Looking back at my not-so-obvious IFMSA journey I see how each experience has prepared me for the next and how each taught me alot. I have started my journey as a general member then Rusafa LPO I have then walked a path from local to the National Assistant.
I'm still aspiring to continue my journey with it, very excited about what is to come, my passion is to give everything I have and to develop this standing committee together and see it always at the highest levels!
Dear IFMSA-Iraq family and SCOPHeroes, My name is Qand Safaa, with pride and passion to present to you my application for the Nationa officer on public health for the term 2022/2023. Working with the National team gave me respect for the team spirit for all the hardships and challenges we had in the last term, we stayed together as a family not just as a random team, and we supported each other. Working alongside the rest of the team taught me something very important. So I will do my best. Orange loph, Qand Safaa.
SCOPH National & Local team Empowerment
PlanofAction
Deliver orientation sessions at the beginning of the term for the members of all LCs to elaborate on the SCOPH workflow and explain SCOPH’s vision, mission, goals, and our priorities in coordination with the LPOs. Deliver Educational meetings once or two every month in collaboration with the CB team and by coordination of the DACB regarding proposal writing, presentation skills, team building, leadership skills, project management, and advocacy.
Empowered teams often have high morale. A highly qualified team can produce more effective and efficient results. and the empowered team can be an excellent resource for productivity.
SCOPHCB
A goal without a plan is just a wish
SCOPH & CBD Workshops SCOPHCB
In coordination with the CBD team and DACB, and the RAs for SCOPH & CB hold national and international SCOPH workshops ( AMOC, OPHLT, and TPHT ) during Pre NGAs to make sure that the new generations have good management skills and build their capacities at many levels.
Conduct SCOPH break camp (a national camp in which we will conduct CB training and SCOPH sessions) at the end of the term that focuses on all our priorities to increase members' awareness about SCOPH projects. Develop SCOPH activities by making national and international collaborations with EMR NMOs and other SCs and CBD.
SCOPH national camps
SCOPHCB
Make sure to engage our PHLT graduates in our campaigns and projects to benefit from their expertise and improve the quality of these activities and this will be through creating an email server in which we will share all our activities.
The implementation will be based on a needs assessment to find out to what extent public health topics have been implemented in the medical curriculum.
In coordination with SCOME start working on SWG for writing public health in the medical curriculum manual that will help in facilitating the implementation of this matter.
Holding a workshop on advocacy in all the local committees, to get the local officers, in cooperation with SCOME, to start communicating with their universities and advocating for the integration of public health topics into the curricula. Ensure reaching the ministry of higher education and ministry of health by collaborating with VPE and NOME to get their agreements in starting to take an action towards including public health in the medical curriculum.
and our role as a standing committee on public health is as follows: curriculum
Publichealthinthemedical
There is a parallel urgency for medical curricula to recognize the importance of the complex interrelated socio-ecological root causes of health, well-being, and illness. To reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases and increase health equity, medical education must integrate core public health knowledge and competencies.
In coordination with NEO and other NPOs Start receiving incoming students from the NMOs whom we’ve signed contracts with. Coordinating with the LPOs and SCOPE NT to work on activating the PHex in their LCs by finding a suitable institute(s) to host the exchange. The selection process will be in coordination with the NEO.
PublicHealthExchange
Make sure to work on further contracts with other NMOs.
IFMSA-IraqSCOPHpolicies
Complete the mental health policy and work on the implementation of it with other NGOs in coordination with the VPE.
In coordination with the VPE Working on the implementation of the existing policies by making external collaborations with other NGOs.
IFMSA-Iraq SCOPH policies
Conduct Policiyum camp to make sure that all of our members are familiar with the concept of policies and how to write them.
Improving the database information regarding our priorities in coordinating with the PCs.
SCOPHsustainability:
In coordinating with the GA, ensure that the SCOPH database contains all necessary documents including the activities proposals, NT reports, manuals, national meetings minutes, and other info.
Improve SCOPH Database
Ensure developing resources & materials regarding SCOPH priorities.
SCOPHsustainability:
Ensure to align all the work with SCOPH strategy and regulations to ensure the quality of workflow and the good implementation of them.
Handover is the most essential thing that keeps the workflow on the right side, a good handover should be given to the next NPO, Assistants, and LPOs through an accurate procedure that contains all the information needed in these positions and keep in touch with the previous NT.
Handover
SCOPH Strategy and Regulations
Meetings and Follow-up
SCOPHsustainability:
In coordination with DAME make sure to check for each LCs issues and try to solve them effectively. Make a regular follow-up by holding meetings with LPOs and assistants to ensure that the work is at the same level for each of them and in each LC and to know their needs and if they require any kind of assistance.
Ensure to conduct monthly meetings with the assistants and LPOs and SCOPH PCs to have a view of our updates, workflow, and the challenges that we faced.
This needs assessment will be analyzed in coordination with the assistants and PCs to determine the local priorities based on the member's engagement and the capacities of this LC in coordination with the PCs and the LPOs.
Activities Enrollment
Local Priorities
Make sure to work and implement our priorities based on the needs assessment that will be shared with all LCs at the beginning of the term.
SCOPHsustainability:
Enroll our projects and activities in the IFMSA database in coordination with the assistants and PSDD.
This form will be evaluated each month to get in touch with anyone who needs any type of help.
Mentalhealthfriendlyenvironment
The EB, national teams, and their members should fill this to evaluate their mental health situation in which the evaluation with EB and TOs will be in coordination with the SecGen, and regarding national assistants and local officers will be in coordination with VBI.
I will receive the mental health watch from the previous NPO and I will work to implement it in coordination with the VPI.
Mental Health Watch
It’s a form that includes questions related to mental health as these questions were already developed in coordination with psychiatrists.
Ensure a healthy work environment within our team by taking the opinions of the assistants and the local officers regarding the workflow, if they face any problem within the SC, any matter that they are not comfortable with, or any type of circumstances and this will be done through creating an anonymous form that will be filled by the national and local team in any time that they feel they need to do that and it will be evaluated each month. After the evaluation of this form, I will work to support anyone who faces any issues with their tasks and work on solving them, giving them a break, and so on.
Work environment
Mentalhealthfriendlyenvironment
In cooperation with the DA deliver SCOPH Advocacy Sessions in each local committee to encourage new and enthusiastic members within the local committee and introduce them to SCOPH and engage them more in our work by coordinating with the LPOs. Revitalizing the buddy groups and making them more interactive, including several activities to strengthen the relationships of the local officers and the national team with each other to ensure the creation of a comfortable and family-like work environment.
In coordination with the DAME encouraging all local officers to create a group that includes all enthusiastic members who have new ideas and desire to work and participate in all activities and to emphasize the participation of all opportunities, whether at the local, national, or international level to develop their skills, experiences, and ideas and work to implement them.
MembersEngagement
Make sure to involve all the team to be part in the decision-making process. Sharing opportunities(e.g. national activities, SWGs, and other volunteer activities within and outside IFMSA that might be chances for the development of the skills, knowledge, and experience of the team) to the national team members and encourage them to participate in national and international events so they can relay these experiences to their local team members.
MemberEngagement
Involve enthusiastic members who have an interest in SCOPH to attend one of the national team meetings as observers so that they have a clear vision of how the work is progressing and planning it. Encouraging the local officers to share our manuals, regulations, and strategies with the new and motivated members and explaining them to ensure they get aware and knowledgeable about SCOPH and its structure.
ExternalAffairs
In cooperation with the other NMO’s NPOs to conduct international camps with other NMOs. Make sure to coordinate with other NMOs to share different opportunities to exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
In cooperation with the VPE make new partnerships with other NGOs and externals especially embassies that deal with public health topics and issues to establish new SCOPH opportunities to improve the skills and get engaged in new ideas. Working on establishing permanent collaborations with existing partnerships such as The station, The Platform, and Go green.
SCOPHwork
Make sure to actively represent IFMSA-Iraq SCOPH sessions and plenaries in the GAs(General Assemblies) and EMRs
Make sure to attend all the TO meetings to discuss the updates and issues in all the NMO to work on improving and solving them.
TO tasks
Keep in touch with the Regional assistant to have an active role in the decision-making process.
Publication and Scocial Media
SCOPHwork
Ensure that the SCOPH Calendar includes all national SCOPH days as well as all our activities by adding them to the calendar before a sufficient period of any activity to make the local team and the members more oriented and prepared well to apply for it.
Conduct online awareness campaigns and share posts regarding public health activities in collaboration with MMPSDD.
In coordinating with the GAs we will work on any task regarding designs, content creation, and publications.
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