Jose Tique, MD, MPH

José Tique is a Medical Epidemiologist with 14 years of experience in management and implementation of HIV related clinical programs at government and non-government institutions. His main areas of expertise include the application of clinical quality improvement methods to improve quality of services, programmatic development, implementation and evaluation, health services research and development of HIV related policy and guidelines. His current work as the National Technical Director at Friends in Global Health, a nongovernment organization affiliated to Vanderbilt University Medical Center that works in Mozambique, is focused in strategic planning, operationalization of programmatic interventions, program evaluations, grant writing, and multidisciplinary staff supervision. Prior to taking this position, he worked for the Mozambican Ministry of health’s National HIV Program as the Senior National Quality Improvement Technical Advisor. Here, he led the development and nationwide implementation of a novel standardized HIV care and treatment quality improvement strategy implemented at more than 450 health facilities (40% of all health facilities providing antiretroviral therapy in the country), laying the groundwork for improvement even at resource constrained sites by establishing a QI framework. He is a former recipient of the Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program scholarship for a Master’s in Public Health at Vanderbilt University. He also worked as a Faculty at the Community Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, were helped develop the curricula for a newly introduced on-line Masters in Public Health program, while also teaching classes within the Master in Public Health program.