Patrick Gallagher

Global development professional who is passionate about employing MEL for organizational learning and stakeholder accountability. 14 years of experience in MEL, capacity building, and disease surveillance and epidemiology in the public health, nutrition, food security, agriculture, land, WASH, and education sectors at community and national levels for USAID, USDA, DFID, and foundation-funded projects. Key Qualifications: • 14 years of experience in global MEL, including theories of change, results frameworks, indicator design, data systems design, study design, sampling, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and data collection, management, quality assurance, analysis, visualization, and reporting. Proudly and persistently promoting collaborating-learning-adapting (CLA) management for continuous program improvement. • Master’s degree in public health epidemiology. • Experience conducting MEL on projects funded by USAID, USDA, DFID, and foundations. • Experience designing, conducting, and managing performance and impact evaluations and monitoring for projects in the health, nutrition, food security, agriculture, land, and education sectors ranging from $60K to $55M. • Expertise in MEL-related tech tools: DHIS2, SurveyCTO, Commcare, R, Tableau, and several others. • Experience building capacity among evaluation data collection teams of up to 40 people, as well as frequent mentoring of M&E specialists, technical leads, and senior managers. • Experience driving M&E-related business development strategy and execution. Sole, lead, or co-lead writer on 10 successful awards totaling $60M+ for projects in the education, nutrition, health, agriculture, and food security sectors. • 5 years of resident field experience in developing nations (Botswana, South Sudan, Zimbabwe). Short-term work in several other countries.