Lawrencia Mushi (PhD) is a lecturer, researcher and consultant in the School of Public Administration and Management (SOPAM) in the Department of Health Systems Management at Mzumbe University.  She holds a bachelor degree of Public Administration in Health systems management of Mzumbe University and a master’s degree in Urban Management and Development of Erasmus University in the Netherlands. She has eleven years teaching experience in the areas: Health Systems Management, Health Care Financing, Health Systems Research, Health Monitoring and Evaluation and Strategic Management of Healthcare Organizations.  She has published both review and original research papers focusing on the cost of dialysis in Low and Middle- Income Countries, downward accountability in a decentralized system of governance as well as papers related to the entrepreneurship field. Her research area of interest includes: cost of illness in Low and Middle-Income Countries, Management of urban governance, primary health care, health care financing, monitoring and evaluation of health care programmes.

1. 2011 – 2015: Doctor of Economic Sciences (Dr. rer. pol) Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald – Department of Business Administration and Health Management.
2. 2007 – 2008:       MSC Urban Management and Development (Management of Urban Governance) – Institute for Housing and Urban Management Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Modules

Core period

• Urban Development in a Globalizing World
• Urban Policy, Planning and Finance
• Urban Management and Governance
• Public Private Partnership
• Research Methods and Techniques
• Economic and Financial Analysis
• E-Governance
• Land policies

Specialization

Managing Urban Governance

• Citizen and Local Democracy
• Local Government Management
• Urban and Regional Development strategies
• Tools for Strategy Developmnt and Implementation

Thesis

The Impact of Decentralization on Downward Accountability: Exploration of Accountability in Local Government

3. 2002 – 2005: Bachelor of Public Administration in Health Service Management – Mzumbe University, Tanzania.

Courses

• Introduction to Public Administration
• Principles of Management
• Health Service Management
• Health law
• Epidemiology
• Health Economics
•  Health Financing
• Health Systems Research
• Industrial relations
• Organization Behavior

4. 1999 – 2001     Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education – Forest Hill

1. Development of Facilitators guide for Hospital Management Training for Regional Referral Hospitals in Client: Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Role played: Consultant (2015).
2. Training of District and Regional HIV and AIDS coordinators on Tanzania Output Monitoring System on HIV and AIDS for non medical intervention April to May 2007. Client: TACAIDS. Funded by WORLD BANK.
3. Data Quality Assessment (RDQA) in Tanzania. June 19-21 2017. Two month field work in Dar es Salaam (Sinza Hospital), Mwanza (Igoma health centre), Sengerema  (Sengerema DDH), Geita (Geita Regional Hospital), and Kigoma (Nyarugusu health centre).

1. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America, 28 September – October 2, 2015. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).
2. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America, 28 December 7 – 11, 2015. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).
3. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States July 11 – 15, 2016. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).
4. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America, September 12 – 16, 2016. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).
5. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America, 27 February – March 3, 2017. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).
6. The use of Monitoring and Evaluation for Quality and Programme Improvement in Health Sector. This course was organized by Centre of Excellence in Health Monitoring and Evaluation http://coehme.mzumbe.ac.tz/ Mzumbe University (MU) September 4 – 8, 2017. Course was held in Edema Hotel- Morogoro. (As main Instructor).

1. Editorial workshop- Academic English Writing. January 16-18 2018. Mzumbe University
2. Data Management and Analysis in the Health Sector. This was conducted through the collaboration between Mzumbe University (MU); Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America, September 11 – 15, 2017. Course was held in Nashera Hotel- Morogoro.
3. Antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV Testing Services (HTS), and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Rapid Data Quality Assessment (RDQA) in Tanzania. June 19-21 2017. Two month field work in Dar es Salaam (Sinza Hospital), Mwanza (Igoma health centre), Sengerema (Sengerema DDH), Geita (Geita Regional Hospital), and Kigoma (Nyarugusu health centre).
4. Peer review Training from 18-19 July 2016, Nashera Hotel Morogoro, Tanzania.
5. Computer Application course. 18/4-18/4, 2005.
6. 2014 – Jan. 2015: English Conference Skills for Postgraduates and Researchers – Level C1, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
7. Enhansing Teaching skills Course. 15/3-19/3, 2010.
8. Good Governance Course for MUSO leaders, 12/8-15/8/, 2003.

1. Mushi, L., Krohn, M., and Flessa, S. Cost of dialysis in Tanzania: evidence from the provider’s perspective. Health Economics Review (2015) 5:28 DOI 10.1186/s13561-015-0064-4
2. Mushi L_, Marschall, P and Fleßa, S_. The cost of dialysis in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research (2015) 15:506
3. DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1166-8
4. Krohn, M., Strake, S., Götz, O., Mushi, L., Fleßa, S. Personnel time consumptions in case of selected dialysis methods- a study at tertiary hospital. Nieren-und Hockdruckkrankheiten, Jahrgang 43,Nr. 5/2014, S.209-216
5. Manyanga, D. and Mushi, L. Pay for Performance in Providing Quality Immunization Services: Effect of Pay for Performance in Providing Quality Immunization Services: The Case of Temeke Municipality In Tanzania. Lambart Academic Publishing. 2012.
6. Kato, M.P. and Mushi L.D. Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure. The accountant Journal, 28 (1), 11-26. 2012.
7. Kato, M.P. and Mushi, L.D. Social Entrepreneurship: How Social Entrepreneurs Pioneering Social Change – the Evidence from Tanzania. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development 3(10), 143-150. 2012
8. Lawrencia D. Mushi and Henry A. Mollel. Downward Accountability in the Decentralized System of Governance: Experience of Selected Wards in Mvomero District Council in Tanzania, Journal of Policy and Leadership, Vol. 1, Issues No. 2, 77-89. 2012.
9. Kato, M.P. and Mushi L.D. Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure: Assessing How an Entrepreneurs’ Prior Business Failure Affects His/Her Ability to Start a New Business Venture. VDM Verlag. 2010.

1. April 2010: Enhancing Decentralization and Governance in Tanzania, Faculty of Public Administration and Management, Tanzania.
2. 16^th – 17^th March 2015: Yearly Conference for German Society for Health Economics, Bielefeld, Germany.
3. 11th  – 15th December 2017:Annual Monitoring and Evaluation best practice conference. Seascape Hotel, Tanzania.

I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes my qualifications, my experience, and myself. I understand that my wilful misstatement described herein may lead to disqualification or dismissal, if engaged.

                               Date: 03^th  March 2018
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