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Gerlinda Lucas

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Dr. Gerlinda Lucas is serving in Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE as Deputy Director of Administration. Her main role is monitoring and evaluating the HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria program of the hospital that is funded by Global Fund. She also took part in launching a community outreach project through a mobile clinic, currently providing basic primary health care and health education to the most depressed area in Phnom Penh. In the past, Dr. Lucas served as Medical Project Supervisor in Kabul, Afghanistan, through HOPE worldwide- Afghanistan from April 2005 to March 2006. In Kabul, she helped to lead the Quality Care Improvement and Management Restructuring Project at Malalai Maternal Hospital funded by the UK Embassy to Afghanistan and supervised various medical projects in the country. Additionally, Dr. Lucas worked in Dubai U.A.E as a Nutrition Consultant to a private clinic and, prior to that, worked in the private sector and lived in Moscow, Russia. She acquired her degree from Russian Peoples Friendship University, Moscow, Russia, becoming a Doctor of Medicine in 1997.
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