User talk:Eric kamba

Eric Kamba, MA,MSW, MPH

Eric Kamba was born in Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1988, he received his Master degree of arts in political science and administration from the University of Lubumbashi (Katanga). In the early 1990s, he worked as a Director and then Senior Director of the French-owned fuel company, SCP/ELF. During the same period, because of his commitment to change and the exercise of genuine democracy, he served as the Regional President of MNC- Kasai Oriental, an opposition political party. Subsequently, he became the political advisor to the Minister of Communication in Congo.

Mr. Kamba came to the United States in 1996 and became involved in human services, community organizing and public health issues. He received his Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health degrees from Boston University in 2004 and 2005.

Mr. Kamba has a proven record in the areas of social justice, empowerment, multiculturalism, power analysis, social change, strategic planning, and action tactics. He also has a solid grounding in needs/assets assessment, outreach and recruitment, leadership development, action research, and group dynamics.

Currently, Mr. Kamba is the Refugee Health Assessment Program Manager at Massachusetts General Hospital(MGH) which serves the Greater Boston area. In this role, he has been able to directly apply knowledge from both his public health and social work graduate education. He has worked in community-based health organization with a focus on the social determinants of health in the refugee and immigrant population.

Mr. Kamba has served as a mentor to many staffs and has engaged them in the ways to look comprehensively at the needs of refugees families.

His responsibilities have included supervision of medical students, program coordinators, patient navigators, interpreters and outreach staffs, program development and evaluation, organization of training, seminars, grant writing, data analysis, community relations, and program management. His commitment to improving health outcomes for refugees and immigrants is outstanding, and most certainly has been reinforced by his full of compassion, understanding and his personal experience standing up for human rights and Democracy in his home country, the Congo.

He is also the founding Executive Director of the Congolese Development Center, a non-profit organization that delivers services to members of African refugee communities in Massachusetts, promotes mutual assistance and capacity building within the African community, and contributes toward sustainable development in Africa by establishing partnerships to draw on the various forms of expertise of African refugees.

In both of these capacities, Mr. Kamba works with outside partners on developing new Refugee and Immigrant Health Program Initiatives that establish strategic connections between refugee and immigrant communities and other agencies.

Eric’s outstanding work with refugees and immigrants in two different low-income cities set him apart.

He is very well known and highly respected by human services professionals and community members throughout the city of Chelsea and Lynn in Massachusetts.

He’s worked closely with primary care practitioners to develop a culturally appropriate case management system, has organized the hospital’s home visiting program, and has coordinated mental health screening for refugee families.

He’s presented at conferences across the United States and has been a guest lecturer in numerous courses at both Boston University School of Social Work and Boston University School of Public Health,Boston College School of Social Work and Northeastern UniversityBouvé College of Health. The topics have ranged from strengthening refugee families, health center outreach, prevention of heart disease among women, domestic violence, the Green revolution, Refugee health and humanitarian aid.

Eric’s strong commitment to refugees and immigrants most certainly has been shaped by his personal experience as a political activist in his country, the Congo. In the face of political repression, he had the courage to stand up for human rights and democracy.

In January 2009, the National Association of Social Worker (NASW) appointed Mr. Kamba to serve as a member of the Social, Economic Justice and Peace Specialty Practice Section Committee. The Specialty Practice Section Committee is charged with providing content expertise for a national program to inform members about current trends in social work practice and linkages to policy issues impacting service delivery.

Awards

•In November 2009, Eric Kamba received a Partners in Excellence award for his outstanding community service

•In October 2009, Eric Kamba received the Boston University 2009 Hubie Jones Urban Service Award.

•In March 2009, Eric received the Greater Boston YMCA 2009 Black Achievers Award.

•In 2007 Mr. Kamba received an award from the National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases for establishing successful partnership and demonstrating scientific excellence in preventing the importation of disease into the United States during an overseas polio outbreak along with three other Refugee Health Assessment providers, Drs. Lewis, Carr, and Guglietta.

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