Hiba Hashim
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Program Manager
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston
12.2025 - Current
- Led $250k teen gambling prevention initiative, overseeing strategy, budget, and achieving program outcomes
- Managed and mentored cross-functional team of 10 to implement large-scale violence prevention campaigns
- Secured and managed over $697k in federal and state grant funding, facilitating program expansion
- Led large scale provider trainings and presentations at national & international conferences
- Applied proven digital marketing framework to new public health brands replicating high impact results
Program Manager, Communications
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston
08.2024 - 12.2025
- Launched youth media initiatives, including podcast, documentary, and 6-week social marketing curriculum, engaging diverse youth audiences
- Designed and executed citywide out-of-home violence prevention campaigns, reaching over 1.5M impressions and raising community awareness
- Grew social media presence by +15.6M impressions and +2.5M engagements with a 784% growth in 1 year
- Authored paper in Journal of Adolescent Health on commercial digital marketing strategies, contributing insights to adolescent health discourse
Communications Specialist
ICF
Reston
02.2023 - 01.2024
- Revived Real Warriors mental health campaign, generating over 1.5M impressions through engaging visual and written content.
- Managed daily social media operations for 500K+ followers, scheduling and publishing content while optimizing websites and CMS landing pages to enhance SEO performance and user engagement.
- Produced engaging content to attract audience for digital platforms and social media channels.
- Developed communication strategies for diverse client projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support client initiatives.
Public Health Specialist
UW-Madison Covid Response Corps
Madison
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Launched the VaxxWaushara rural vaccination campaign increasing vaccination rates from 42% to 97% through pop-up clinics, community outreach events, and social media campaigns
- Coordinated community health initiatives to promote Covid-19 prevention strategies.
- Created public health advocacy content, including blogs, press releases, Facebook Lives, and street interviews, to engage the community and raise awareness through various media outlets
- Developed educational materials on public health guidelines for diverse audiences.
- Facilitated training sessions for volunteers on effective public health outreach techniques.
Education
MPH - Health Equity
Simmons University
Boston, MAB. S. - Psychology and Global Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WisconsinPMP - Project Management
Project Management Institute
RemoteSkills
- Project management
- Grant management
- Budget management
- Contract Management
- Grant writing
- Program evaluation
- Community engagement
- Strategic communication
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Google Analytics
SKILLS
Language | Urdu fluency, Spanish beginner
CONFERENCES
- IAFOR, Social Media as Peer: Leveraging Digital Marketing in Public Health, London, UK July 2025
- Presented commercial digital marketing strategies, platform algorithms, and AI can be leveraged as behavioral interventions to increase healthy relationship norms
- Safe States, Likes, Listens, and Lessons: How to Build Digital Campaigns for Healthy Relationships, Atlanta, GA Aug. 2025
- Lead interactive breakout sessions on social media and podcast strategy for injury and violence prevention (IVP) professionals.
- ATSA, Media as a Super Peer and the Power of Critical Relationship Tools, Orlando, FL Sept. 2025
- Presented original paper on adolescent social media use and digital dating abuse trends.
- Delivered a skills-based session to equip providers with practical media literacy, communication, and decision-making strategies for violence prevention.
Timeline
Senior Program Manager
Boston Public Health Commission
12.2025 - Current
Program Manager, Communications
Boston Public Health Commission
08.2024 - 12.2025
Communications Specialist
ICF
02.2023 - 01.2024
Public Health Specialist
UW-Madison Covid Response Corps
05.2021 - 12.2021
MPH - Health Equity
Simmons University
B. S. - Psychology and Global Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
PMP - Project Management
Project Management Institute