CURRICULUM VITAE
Susan L. Rhodes, MA, MPH
[email protected]
PROFILE:
Accomplished and skilled cross-cultural and international educator and classroom teacher—newly trained in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages (TCSOL) pedagogy and practice. Experienced in designing lesson plans, assessment tools, and activities for both fluency and accuracy to be used for teaching core classes and electives to high school, college, and adult learners.
TESOL AND TCSOL TEACHER
Classroom Teaching Experience
Current TESOL and TCSOL Experience:
Recent TESOL Experience:
Past TESOL and TCSOL Experience:
Education
Certificate in Teaching English (CTE), The New School for Public Engagement, New York, NY; January 2014.
Certificate in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teachers College, Columbia University. Certificate due May 2014.
MPH, Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
MA, Chinese Language and Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Institute, Columbia University
BA, Chinese Language, Queens College, City University of New York (including Junior Year at Princeton University), magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships:
Recent Staff Position (October 2010-January 2013)
GLOBAL MASTER’S IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE SECRETARIAT, EARTH INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
The GMDP Secretariat oversees a network of twenty-three universities in sixteen countries and on six continents that are offering a new two-year Master’s program preparing “generalists” to work in sustainable development.
Associate Director (January 18, 2011-January 1, 2013)
Interim Acting Associate Director (October 12, 2010-January 17, 2011)
Consulting (2009-10)
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
International non-profit agency that trains TB Control staff from developing countries in TB diagnosis and treatment and management skills
Writer
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC), New York, NY
The IRC is an international relief agency that responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises (natural disasters and conflict situations) and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Trainer and Facilitator
LAPA (LAURENCE A. PAGNONI ASSOCIATES), New York, NY
LAPA assists and supports community-based organizations raise funds with fiscal management.
Grant Writer
WORLD LUNG FOUNDATION, New York, NY
International service organization to improve lung health in developing countries
Curriculum Developer
ENGENDERHEALTH, New York, NY
International NGO that improves lives through family planning, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and gender equity programs
Curriculum Designer
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
Trains TB control managers in developing countries
Curriculum Developer and Trainer
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION
CENTER FOR HEALTH (I-TECH), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Develops curriculum and builds capacity for health care workers to provide care and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients
Training Development Specialist
Staff Position: 2007-2009
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL, INC., New York, NY (2007 - 2009)
International non-governmental development organization, dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in developing countries
Regional Technical Advisor for Bangladesh and Training (2009)
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL, New York, NY
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
ENGENDERHEALTH, New York, NY
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BAGNOUD CENTER, University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, NJ
INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (IAVI), NewYork, NY
LAURENCE A. PAGNONI ASSOCIATES (LAPA ASSOCIATES), New York, NY
Staff Positions: 1996-2009
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AIDS CARE AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS (ICAP), MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (2004-2005)
Division of Mailman School of Public Health, designs and delivers training in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Africa and the Caribbean
Director, Training Unit
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE, BUREAU OF HIV/AIDS, New York, NY (2002-2004)
HIV Training Institute (HTI) offers training to more than 4,000 staff of over 80 separate agencies that provide services to New York City’s HIV/AIDS-infected and affected populations
Director, HIV Training Institute (HTI)
POPULATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, (1998-2002)
New York, NY Works with media outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, to promote sexual and reproductive health, female empowerment, and HIV prevention Senior Program Officer, International Programs (1999-2002) As deputy to the Vice President, International Programs:
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BUREAU OF (1996-1998)
TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL, New York, NY
City agency with a staff of 800, who delivered TB testing and treatment through chest clinics, conducted public education, carried out contact investigations, and informed the medical profession and the public on TB and HIV.
Director, Education & Training Unit (1998)
Deputy Director, Education & Training Unit (1996-1998)
CHINA/ASIA FIELD ~ PROGRAM EXPERIENCE
THE CENTER FOR U.S.-CHINA ARTS EXCHANGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
A non-profit NGO with a mission to design and implement professional exchanges in the arts between the U.S. and China
Associate Director
THE ASIA SOCIETY, New York, NY, and Washington, DC
International non-profit, NGO, whose mission is to educate American audiences on the arts, politics, and cultures of Asia through public programming
Assistant Director, Education & Communications Dept.
Administrative Associate, The China Council
PUBLICATIONS: EDITING & WRITING
Susan L. Rhodes, MA, MPH
[email protected]
PROFILE:
Accomplished and skilled cross-cultural and international educator and classroom teacher—newly trained in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages (TCSOL) pedagogy and practice. Experienced in designing lesson plans, assessment tools, and activities for both fluency and accuracy to be used for teaching core classes and electives to high school, college, and adult learners.
TESOL AND TCSOL TEACHER
Classroom Teaching Experience
Current TESOL and TCSOL Experience:
- Borough of Manhattan Community College; 25 Broadway; New York, NY
- Columbia University; New York, NY
- Fall 2013, Beginning Chinese, student
- Spring 2014, Intermediate Chinese, student teaching
Recent TESOL Experience:
- EC New York, Inc.; 1450 Broadway; New York, NY
- English Language School of the United Nations, New York, NY (January 2013-present); teach high intermediate classes to family members of United Nations diplomats and consular corps.
- Adult Literacy Program, Aguilar Branch, New York Public Library, New York, NY (January 2013-May 2013); taught high beginners to low intermediate adult community members from a wide variety of countries residing in New York.
- International Rescue Committee, Refugee Resettlement Program, New York, NY (January 2013-May 2013); taught survival English to newly arrived refugees from Myanmar, Afghanistan, China, and various other countries.
Past TESOL and TCSOL Experience:
- Taught English in the Foreign Languages Institute (college-level), Summer 1991, Beijing, China
- Chinese language classes; Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY
- Sophomore English classes; Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY
- Chinese and Japanese Literature in Translation, The New School for Social Research
- Chinese language, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Education
Certificate in Teaching English (CTE), The New School for Public Engagement, New York, NY; January 2014.
Certificate in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), Teachers College, Columbia University. Certificate due May 2014.
MPH, Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
MA, Chinese Language and Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Institute, Columbia University
BA, Chinese Language, Queens College, City University of New York (including Junior Year at Princeton University), magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Fellowships:
- National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships
- Carnegie Corporation grant to study Chinese language at Princeton University
- Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
Recent Staff Position (October 2010-January 2013)
GLOBAL MASTER’S IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE SECRETARIAT, EARTH INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
The GMDP Secretariat oversees a network of twenty-three universities in sixteen countries and on six continents that are offering a new two-year Master’s program preparing “generalists” to work in sustainable development.
Associate Director (January 18, 2011-January 1, 2013)
Interim Acting Associate Director (October 12, 2010-January 17, 2011)
- Worked with each program’s coordinator and faculty to design materials to address curricular gaps, including on-line courses, course modules, and case studies; served as liaison between the Secretariat and the MDP Evaluation Task Force to identify methods of accreditation and quality assurance; and worked with the Director and Communications Administrator to develop the MDP Web site and populate its Repository with resources
Consulting (2009-10)
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
International non-profit agency that trains TB Control staff from developing countries in TB diagnosis and treatment and management skills
Writer
- Contributed “Keeping E-mail Communication Professional,” for the December 2012 issue of the International Management Development Programme’s newsletter, The Health Manager: http://www.union-imdp.org/health-manager-recent-issues
- Facilitated “Designing a TB Training Program” and the Action Planning process for TB Control mid-level managers as part of a Human Resources Development and Management training in their International Management Development Programme course, Bangkok, Thailand, December 13-18, 2010
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC), New York, NY
The IRC is an international relief agency that responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises (natural disasters and conflict situations) and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives.
Trainer and Facilitator
- Worked with Health Unit staff to plan and develop materials for workshop for global staff
- Facilitated one-week workshop in Hammamet, Tunisia; September 2010
LAPA (LAURENCE A. PAGNONI ASSOCIATES), New York, NY
LAPA assists and supports community-based organizations raise funds with fiscal management.
Grant Writer
- Revised successful grant proposal from The Condom Project to UNFPA
- Revised $570,000 grant proposal submitted to the U.S. Department of State
WORLD LUNG FOUNDATION, New York, NY
International service organization to improve lung health in developing countries
Curriculum Developer
- Assisted in development of training: “Mass Media and Communications”
ENGENDERHEALTH, New York, NY
International NGO that improves lives through family planning, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and gender equity programs
Curriculum Designer
- Edited curriculum on condom distribution for Ethiopian Health Care Workers
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
Trains TB control managers in developing countries
Curriculum Developer and Trainer
- Designed and conducted communication skills training; July 2009, Bangkok, Thailand.
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION
CENTER FOR HEALTH (I-TECH), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Develops curriculum and builds capacity for health care workers to provide care and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients
Training Development Specialist
- Conducted Instructional Design Review on nurse specialist curriculum for India
Staff Position: 2007-2009
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL, INC., New York, NY (2007 - 2009)
International non-governmental development organization, dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in developing countries
Regional Technical Advisor for Bangladesh and Training (2009)
- Supported program development, implementation, and documentation (ORBIS/Bangladesh)
- Developed and piloted training on new M & E system (ORBIS/Bangladesh)
- Developed roll-out of new M & E system to 30 international staff in five country offices
- Designed and facilitated Training of Trainers for nine ophthalmologists chosen to lead a Center of Excellence at Ho Chi Minh City Eye Hospital, Vietnam
- Participated in Quality Improvement initiative for international partners
- Co-facilitated Behavior Change Communication training for 20 field staff; ORBIS/China
- Designed and delivered training for ORBIS Program Managers in five Country Offices (Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam) on their priority responsibilities
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL, New York, NY
- Program development for five country programs
- Program and Training evaluation; Shanghai and Dali, China
- Designed & delivered pilot staff training for Program Mgrs; Dhaka, Bangladesh
INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, Paris, France
- Developed standardized and systemized training materials for Leadership Management Training in: staff management, human relations, and budget design
ENGENDERHEALTH, New York, NY
- Developed curriculum materials and promising practices documents for linking HIV/AIDS services with Sexual and Reproductive Health services
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BAGNOUD CENTER, University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, NJ
- Participated in virtual team to adapt generic CDC curriculum for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS for use in Zanzibar
INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE (IAVI), NewYork, NY
- Researched, analyzed, and wrote feasibility study for the introduction of HIV clinical trials in People’s Republic of China
LAURENCE A. PAGNONI ASSOCIATES (LAPA ASSOCIATES), New York, NY
- Grant writing for Ryan White HIV/AIDS grants for NYC community-based organizations
Staff Positions: 1996-2009
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AIDS CARE AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS (ICAP), MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (2004-2005)
Division of Mailman School of Public Health, designs and delivers training in HIV/AIDS care and treatment in Africa and the Caribbean
Director, Training Unit
- Enlisted participation of experienced doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and counselors for short-term lectures and precepting at program sites
- Worked with Clinical Unit and M & E Unit of ICAP to ensure up-to-date, high-quality training for medical and social service providers
- Implemented training plan for HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs in a range of resource-poor countries
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
MENTAL HYGIENE, BUREAU OF HIV/AIDS, New York, NY (2002-2004)
HIV Training Institute (HTI) offers training to more than 4,000 staff of over 80 separate agencies that provide services to New York City’s HIV/AIDS-infected and affected populations
Director, HIV Training Institute (HTI)
- Supervised staff of 20-22
- Developed policy and curricula for HTI
- Designed field-based training, conferences, educational videos, with other departments and Bureaus in the DOHMH and with CBOs
- Represented Bureau at domestic conferences
- Participated in revision of K-12 HIV curriculum for the NYC DOE
- Delivered presentations to professional and public groups
POPULATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, (1998-2002)
New York, NY Works with media outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, to promote sexual and reproductive health, female empowerment, and HIV prevention Senior Program Officer, International Programs (1999-2002) As deputy to the Vice President, International Programs:
- Interacted with NGOs and government agencies in fields of sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and environmental protection
- Developed and conducted training workshops on HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention, and programmatic initiatives
- Provided editorial input on departmental reports, PCI publications, grant requests and reports, and Web site
- Produced handbook and training modules on PCI’s methodology
- Developed and conducted in-country workshops on PCI methodology, script design, gender sensitivity, cultural competency, and HIV/AIDS awareness
- Worked with researchers, training consultants, and in-country representatives to identify community and audience needs
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BUREAU OF (1996-1998)
TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL, New York, NY
City agency with a staff of 800, who delivered TB testing and treatment through chest clinics, conducted public education, carried out contact investigations, and informed the medical profession and the public on TB and HIV.
Director, Education & Training Unit (1998)
Deputy Director, Education & Training Unit (1996-1998)
- Managed department of 21-23
- Developed, designed, and conducted HIV/AIDS training for staff and public
- Conducted TB education to support contact investigations
- Wrote and edited Bureau publications, Web page, educational materials, video series; collaborated with other Bureaus (TB and STD) on relevant joint projects
- Oversaw development and dissemination of foreign-language materials on TB
CHINA/ASIA FIELD ~ PROGRAM EXPERIENCE
THE CENTER FOR U.S.-CHINA ARTS EXCHANGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
A non-profit NGO with a mission to design and implement professional exchanges in the arts between the U.S. and China
Associate Director
- Designed and implemented professional exchanges in the arts between the United States and China
- Designed and hosted special events in the arts in both Asia and the
- Wrote grant proposals, met with donors, reported and oversaw grant-
- Supervised staff and managed activities of the office and exchange
THE ASIA SOCIETY, New York, NY, and Washington, DC
International non-profit, NGO, whose mission is to educate American audiences on the arts, politics, and cultures of Asia through public programming
Assistant Director, Education & Communications Dept.
Administrative Associate, The China Council
- Supervised administrative and educational staffs and managed office
- Wrote and edited briefing materials for journalists and educational materials
- Assisted in the organization and implementation of public education events
PUBLICATIONS: EDITING & WRITING
- “Tips for Effective E-Mail Communication,” The Health Manager, a monthly online magazine that focuses on management education for health professionals
- The Columbia Clinical Manual: Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Resource-Limited Settings, Miriam Rabkin, Wafaa El-Sadr, Elaine Abrams, The International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; 20005.
- The Children of Africa Confront AIDS: From Vulnerability to Possibility, Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard, Ohio University Press & Swallow Press, 2003.
- Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action, Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers, Sage Publications: London and New Delhi, 2003.
- Soap Operas for Social Change: A PCI Methodology for Entertainment-Education, Population Communications International, 2000.
- Global Intersections, online news service on Population and the Environment, Population Communications International.
- On Air, quarterly newsletter, Population Communications International.
- Clinical Policies and Protocols, Third edition, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, NYC Department of Health; September 1998.
- TB Times, Newsletter of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, NYC Department of Health; July 1996 to October 1998.
- The Making of Modern Tibet, A. Tom Grunfeld, Zed Books, Ltd., and M. E. Sharpe Inc.: London and New York; modern history book for non-specialists; 1987.
- The China Difference, Ross E. Terrill, Harper Colophon Books, paperback edition, New York; 1980.
- Focus on Asian Studies, published by The Asia Society, journal for elementary and secondary school teachers; edited ten issues.
- Vietnam: A Teacher’s Guide, special issue of Focus on Asian Studies, published by The Asia Society—a teaching guide for Educational Television’s series on Vietnam.
- Briefing packet series, China Council of The Asia Society; publications for journalists, scholars, and business people on Chinese economics, sociology, and culture.