Resume

Raisa Alexis N. Santos, MPH

r.santos9216@gmail.com ▪ (347)-850-5431▪ LinkedIn ▪ Staten Island, NY

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health – May 2022

Master of Public Health (MPH) in Sociomedical Sciences with a concentration in Global Health

Brooklyn College/CUNY – May 2019

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Creative Writing ▪ Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Chemistry

Blogging: WordPress ▪ Google Docs ▪ SEO

Microsoft Office: MS Word ▪ MS Excel ▪ MS Powerpoint

Design: Adobe Creative Suite ▪ Adobe InDesign ▪ Adobe Photoshop ▪ Canva

Social Media Management: Twitter/Bluesky ▪ Instagram ▪ Facebook ▪ LinkedIn ▪ Hootsuite ▪ Social Media Outreach/Analytics ▪ Mailchimp

Writing: Creative Writing ▪ News Reporting (Health Policy and Global Health) ▪ Stakeholder Reports ▪ AP Style ▪ Copyediting

Misc: Project Management ▪ Data Entry ▪ Event Planning ▪ Fundraising ▪ Research ▪ Format Editing ▪ Content Creation ▪ SPSS

VillageReach ▪ Seattle, Washington (remote) – September 2022 to Present
Communications Officer

Lead three successful promotion plans for Annual Report (2023 – 2025) and 25^th anniversary collateral including executive level messaging, social media across platforms, organizational social press kit and newsletter email
Coordinate and execute country-level (Malawi) communications strategy, including blog posts, social media messaging and Annual Report
Produce strategies to promote organizational collateral across VillageReach platforms through use of social media messaging, graphics and blog posts
Manage communication editorial calendar to track collateral workflow and production
Oversee VillageReach social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Youtube and Bluesky), website, and Google Ads account; compile monthly digital analytics through PowerBI dashboard and apply data to social media strategies
Review research articles, blog posts, and other VillageReach collateral to ensure alignment with organizational brand and mission
Develop quarterly external newsletter and weekly internal newsletter featuring organizational highlights and updates
Create and update program pages on VillageReach website in collaboration with program leads
Ghostwrite executive level collateral, including op-eds, newsletter introductions and blog posts

Health Policy Watch ▪ Geneva, Switzerland (remote) – October 2020 to September 2022
Reporter

Reported five times a week on global health policy related events, press briefings, and news, producing 157 stories to date
Scanned and analyzed news landscape, preprint and new literature, and media briefings to produce stories under daily four-hour deadline
Significantly increased following on Twitter by 30% through management of social media account
Designed 16 promotional materials through Canva and Adobe Photoshop for events such as the annual Geneva Health Forum, social media, and mailing lists, increasing event attendance, and story readership and views across 190 countries
Interviewed 3 global health experts, including STOP TB Executive Director Lucica Ditiu, on timely global health issues of mental health, and tuberculosis, producing 4 stories with significant readership and impressions on social media
Trained 3 interns on social media presence and story production to effectively increase daily coverage of global health news
Analyzed social media analytics of Twitter and WordPress to create 4 stakeholder reports for partners and donors, effectively securing annual grant from Wellcome Trust

Roots of Health ▪ Palawan, Philippines (remote) – June 2021 to August 2021
Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow

Cleaned and analyzed 119 quantitative and 23 qualitative data sets for study to assess contextual factors associated with teen pregnancy in Palawan, Philippines, producing two co-written stakeholder reports for quantitative and qualitative data analysis

“The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on mental and psychosocial health in the Philippines: A scoping review” – February 2024

AP Stylebook Workshop Certificate – January 2024