| About Eni: |
Eni Bakallbashi is interested in the role of
social enterprise in health care and exploring economic avenues for public-private partnerships to increase health care in both
industrialized and developing countries.
Influenced by her father’s work as a doctor,
Eni has cultivated an understanding about
health care mismanagement practices and access in the larger
context of economic development.
After receiving a BA in Economics from Georgetown University Eni
worked at the World Bank Group where she was named ‘Best Junior
Professional Associate’ for outstanding work across the Health, Nutrition
and Population (HNP), Education (ED) and Social (SP) sectors. She
also received a ‘Spot Award’ for special effort and contribution to the
completion of a review on World Bank’s output health and overall outputs.
Her regular duties included monitoring the financial portfolio and
performance of World Bank funded projects and improving the World
Bank’s impact on health operations by increasing financial resources
for health care access by marginalized and vulnerable groups in
Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Being multi-lingual, Eni has volunteered as a translator and adviser
for the Whitman Walker AIDS Clinic in Washington, D.C., a pro bono
legal service group advising people living with HIV/AIDS
This summer, she will be in Cameroon supervising research for the
Multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Project I, a project that seeks to mitigate
and prevent HIV/AIDS through community intervention and
education. Eni will conduct data analysis and focus groups to develop
strategies to more effectively monitor and evaluate health services to
rural and vulnerable populations. |
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