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Episode 11-Interview with Tatenda Diura
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In this episode we chat with Tatenda Diura, a humanitarian worker from Zimbabwe.
We discuss:
- A brief introduction of her background, her current work and where she is based, and what she specializes in, in her work
- What is safeguarding and how long has she been doing this work?
- Her background and journey to public health , what she studied, her internship experience in Zimbabwe
- How she found out about public health and how she ended up doing her Masters degree in public health
- What influenced her career decisions at every juncture in her journey
- How she used resources available to her to search for jobs
- How she navigated the catch 22 of jobs requiring experience and experience being gotten through jobs and got her first job after her Master’s degree
- How she has leveraged changing organizations and roles to grow in her career
- The principle of do not harm and how it is the cornerstone of safeguarding work in humanitarian settings
- Examples of the kind of work she does in safeguarding
- Behavior Change Communication and how her sociology degree is now relevant in her work
- What a survivor centered approach in humanitarian work is and what that looks like
- The importance of understanding context in populations that we serve in public health
- How heavy humanitarian work can be at times
- What Tatenda’s likes the most about the work that she does
- What measures are in place in the humanitarian field to ensure that humanitarian workers maintain their mental, physical and emotional wellbeing
- Burnout in humanitarian work
- The risk of being desensitized doing the work and the importance of rest and unplugging between projects and assignments
- The importance of empathy and mot sympathy while doing work
- What keeps Tatenda going in the field, even with high turnover rates
- What does public health mean for Tatenda
- Vulnerable populations that Tatenda works with and how that is defined
- Words of wisdom
- How Tatenda has used LinkedIn to grow in her career
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