CV IN ENGLISH

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José David Jaramillo Airó
Bogotá- Colombia .
E-mail: jdjaramillo1@etb.net.co
Nationality: Spanish / Colombian
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My work is performed upon academic knowledge, and life experience. Confer value to group work within research, in which I generate leadership conditions, keeping a wide angle and compromising myself to maximize the analytical skills, as well as the resources. North east Africa and Latin America have been the focus of my research over the last three years.

• Languages spoken.
Spanish (Native Speaker)
English (Second Language, fluent speaker)
French (Fair knowledge)

• Work Experience
• March 2008- December 2009: General Control Office of Colombia. Job Position: leader on health corruption research within Latin American countries.
• September 2006- Currently: FUNDESIC. Founder & General Director. Local NGO which gives support to people living with HIV, as well as those with learning disabilities. It works on the prevention area, in order to reduce the rate of infection, by giving people the tools and knowledge on the ways to stop infection from being spread. FUNDESIC has done research in Colombia and in Africa, where AIDS has had a significant impact within development.
• November 2005- September 2006: Carrera Septima Publishing Group. Consultant & Editor.

• May - November 2005: Advantage Healthcare. Brighton UK. Health Care Assistant. I worked in general hospital wards. Also worked in special care wards, treating patients with HIV. In addition gained experience through working in high security psychiatric wards. Part- time work.

• July 2004- November 2005. Reliance Care. Brighton UK. Support Worker. My duty was to look after people with learning disabilities, assisting them in their daily activities. Part- time work.

• February 2004-July 2004. MENCAP. Support Worker. Used previous educational training plus further training to be able to work with people who had severe learning disabilities. Part- time work.

• February 2003, September 2003. Colombian Association of sports and social clubs. Bogota, Colombia. Logistic Coordinator. Second National Interclub Sports Games 2003.
Duties & Responsibilities: To plan and coordinate the logistical aspects of a multi sport event gathering 1500 sportsmen on ten days of competition.


• Summer Jobs.
• 2000. RUMBOS Program. Program directed by the Colombia’s presidency. Worked as analyst of multiple investigations conducted by researchers of the program in relation to Prevention of Drugs Abuse in Colombia. Direct boss. Augusto Perez, Director of the Program. Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1999. Worked as assistant of the National Counsellor for Social Policy in Colombia. In this position my duty was to research on the Interfamilial violence, child abuse and hand in reports to him, in order for him to have a different view. Direct boss Mauricio Perfetti, General Counsellor for Social Policy in Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia

• Academic jobs.
Under the category of student in medicine as anthropology. In the following hospitals had different placements

• University Hospital of San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia. 1995
• Insitute Cancerologico de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. 1996
• Instituto Neurológico de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. 1996
• Field work on the south Pacific Coast of Colombia, researching in Anthropological investigations, Malaria investigation for my final Dissertation. June- July 2002
• Field work in an open Market in Bogotá, Colombia. Ethnography was written. October 2001.

• Education

• 2003-2005. University of Sussex. School of Sociocultural Studies.
Brighton, United Kingdom
Degree achieved: MA in Medical Anthropology.

Dissertation: “Hope and Dreams make life worth living. Account of AIDS in Bogotá.”
Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Simon Coleman PhD.

The content of the MA is concerned with cross-cultural understandings of medicine, health and healing, with the experience of pain and illness, and with the political economy of health.
The anthropology department at Sussex University received a research rating of 5/5 in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, recognising research of international standing. It was also awarded a grade of ‘Excellent’ in an earlier assessment of teaching quality. Due to being a part –time student, the MA was completed in two years.

MA Medical Anthropology, Programme structure
Autumn term: Introductory course, Medical Anthropology, and Understanding Processes of Social Change.
Spring term: Cultural Understandings of Health and Healing, and a special topic option, in which I choose Anthropology of Childbirth and Reproductive Health.
Summer term: I undertook a supervised work on a 20,000-word dissertation.


• 1998-2003 Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. Carrera 1 N° 18A 10 Bogota, (Colombia)
Degree achieved: Anthropologist. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.

Final Dissertation: “Cultural Determinants of the Malaria and it’s alternative treatments in the coast of Juanchaco, Ladrilleros and La Barra, Colombian pacific coast”.
Careers General Average. 4.0/5.0
Monitor in different undergraduate courses during the career.

• 1997-1998 University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Certificate in Economics and Economic History. This course made special emphasis on Africa and South East Asia. Final Mark. 7.0 London, UK.

• 1993-1997. Universidad Javeriana. School of Medicine. General Average. 4.1/5.0. Bogotá, Colombia.

• 1993. Anglo Colombiano School. Bachelor in Sciences, International Version. Bogotá, Colombia.


Research and lectures presentation.
I have presented the following research and lectures at the following venues:

• 20 April 2006 “Towards an Anthropology of development having present our reality. An acknowledgement of the Colombian and African experience”. Lecture presented at the Anthropology Undergraduate program release event. Universidad del Rosario. Bogota, Colombia.
• 6 March 2006. “The field of Medical Anthropology in the Latin and African context”. Lecture for prospective anthropology students. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.

• 1 December 2005. "Hope and dreams make life worth living. Narratives of VIH in a sample of the Foundation Eudes ". Forum quality of life and VIH/ AIDS. Secretary of Interior Health of Cundinamarca and Fundacion Eudes. Bogotá, Colombia

• February 1995. "Errors in the taking of the arterial tension under double blind pattern in a random sample at School San Bartholome de la Merced., Bogota ". Colombian congress of medicine students. Ascofame. Neiva (Huila, Colombia


• Skills.
Working Knowledge of SPSS, and MS Office pack .
Management Skills and ability to motivate the people who surround me
Teamwork experience
Fluent speaker of English, Spanish (native language)
Excellent organisational ability
Enjoy challenges through hard work.

• Activities and Interests
Taekwondo ITF
Modern Literature,
Equestrian Champion 1992

• References.
Academic Reference: Dr. Maya Unnithan PhD.
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Arts C 252
University of Sussex
Brighton,BN19RH
E: M.Unnithan@sussex.ac.uk

Prof. Simon Coleman PhD.
Professor of Anthropology (Anthropology, Sussex Centre for Migration Research
Arts C 206
University of Sussex
Brighton,BN19RH
United Kingdom
E: S.M.Coleman@sussex.ac.uk




Personal Reference:

Dr. Ruben Serna Uchima
Administrative Coordinator Colombia
Interamerican Development Bank
E: rubens@iadb.org

Dr. Ramiro de la Vega Angulo
Universidad de los Andes Executive Board member
E: ramde@uniandes.edu.co