Expert Details
Research; Infectious Disease, Pharmaceutical/Supply Chain, Biontech, Bioinformatics, Clinical Trial Design, Consumer Behavior, and Marketing
ID: 733365
Nigeria
Expert was previously the project manager for five-year multi-country projects (Nigeria, Katchasitan, and the Philippines) funded by a Ministry of Foreign affairs towards strengthening quality- and patient-centered TB and TB/HIV services in the non-public sector in Nigeria. In this position, Expert has led the assessment of the quality of services of more than 30 private hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria, using the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) and the Amsterdam-based Pharmaccess Foundation Basic Safe care Standards.
Expert currently serves as co-investigator of the (Undisclosed) Inventory Study to assess the under-reporting of detected TB cases in Nigeria. In addition, he is a peer reviewer for the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and an Internationally certified health facility assessor (Safe care Quality improvement methodology) through the Amsterdam-based Pharmaccess Foundation. Previously, he was the State Technical Advisor/Clinical Care Specialist at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Kebbi State.
He possesses over seven years of working experience with government health facilities, one year of experience using Site Improvement through monitoring systems piloted in MSH-supported hospitals in July 2015, non-governmental organizations, and USAID/PEPFAR funded projects. As a member of senior management, he is experienced in project management, program planning, implementation, and monitoring in the areas of maternal and child health services, sexual and reproductive health services, Family planning/HIV integration, TB/HIV, PMTCT, PHDP, HIV testing and counseling, gender mainstreaming, nutrition, quality improvement, Basic ART services for Adults and Children, OVC and retention in care. In addition, he had worked with the Kebbi state government and directors of health, LGA Affairs, Women affairs, Primary Healthcare Development Agency, and others to transition comprehensive HIV, including sustainable HTC, maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition services for local state ownership.
Expert has co-supervised eight MSH staff, supervises 18 project volunteers and one intern, and builds more than 180 health workers through training, mentorship, QI meetings, CMEs, and SIMS supervisory and capacity building visits to deliver effective service PLHIV and malnourished children and adults in Kebbi state.
Expert's achievements include inputs on work plan development for FY 16, evaluation of innovative MSH SPEEiD model for improved early infant diagnosis, transition of 12 PMTCT sites and services and 4 QI meetings from USAID to Kebbi state government, improved TB case detection through innovative cough officer intervention and demand creation for gen expert, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy(IPT) outcome evaluation for 2000 PLHIVs and PMTCT data extraction for abstract development, development of innovative costed strategic health operational plans (2015-2016) for two hospitals, coordination of State Implementation of National Strategic Roadmap for Maternal, New-born and Child Health (including BeMONC) in conjunction with Kebbi State Ministry of Health as part of the 7th Country Program of UNFPA.
Expert is a prolific proposal writer, editor, and training facilitator with strong interpersonal and team-building skills. His accepted abstracts on the Quality of HIV care were presented at IAS 2016.
Expert currently works with the Amsterdam-based Pharmaccess Foundation to develop a mobile app that will ease Tuberculosis notification among private healthcare providers in Nigeria.
Consultancy services (Global Advisor)
Freelance writer
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2015 | Degree: Masters Degree | Subject: International management of health systems | Institution: University of Liverpool |
| Year: 2015 | Degree: Masters Certificate | Subject: Healthcare Leadership | Institution: Cornell University |
| Year: 2010 | Degree: MBBS | Subject: Medicine and Surgery | Institution: Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife Nigeria |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2020 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Project Manager/Principal Investigator | Department: Strategic Information |
Responsibilities:Oversee all Strategic Information (SI) activities for the grant across supported States and Countries. Support community organizations to monitor, document and analyze the performance of their TB services and activities and ensure data quality.Liaise with relevant technical advisers and counterparts responsible for state and LGA level SI function. Ensure monitoring, evaluation, and coordination with national data systems. Provide technical guidance to state team on monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes including the development of performance indicators, setting annual targets, monitoring project progress against annual targets, ensuring timely data collection, generating quarterly and annual reports. Participate in health system strengthening activities. Oversee the development and periodic review of program reporting protocols. Develop indicator matrices in line with indicator requirements for the project. Oversee the generation of all program reports including USAID Quarterly, Semi-annual, and Annual progress reports. Oversee the development of performance monitoring plans for the project. Ensure the institutionalization of data demand and use within the state program through the use of gap analyses, run charts, and site fact sheets. Represent the organization at meetings with funders, the Government of Nigeria(GON), and other stakeholders on M&E related matters. Provide strategic technical assistance to the government agencies and wider State response on theories, strategies, and approaches for monitoring and evaluation at the State level. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2016 to 2019 | Employer: KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation | Title: Director Strategic Information | Department: Infectious Diseases (TB, HIV, Hepatitis, Malaria) |
Responsibilities:Expert's role is both technical and project-management-oriented in nature, including the provision of long-term technical assistance for Global Funds. By using the Safe care and International Standard for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) quality assessment methodology, Expert works with DGIS project Team in the Netherlands and other countries (Kachasistan and the Philippines), PharmAccess Foundation as well as KNCV Nigeria Team to strengthen quality patient-centered TB, HIV, maternal and child health services, ensure work plan is developed, the project is implemented according to timelines and results, successes and lessons learned are documented.He has assessed 30 private hospitals in Lagos state for quality of Tuberculosis care, including HIV testing and Counselling, using the internationally accredited safe care methodology, which contains 170 quality of care standards. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2014 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: State Technical Advisor-Clinical Care Specialist | Department: Clinical Care |
Responsibilities:Achievements1. Transitioned 12 Prevention of Child to Mother Transmission (PMTCT) hospitals from USAID to Kebbi State Government for continued funding-October 2015 2. Having built the capacity of hospitals staff in Kebbi state in the use of Site Improvement Through Monitoring Systems(SIMS) tool for 8 months, the USAID team that visited 4 MSH supported comprehensive hospitals and 2 PMTCT hospitals in Kebbi state in March 2016 rated 5 of the hospitals exceeding expectations(including HTC) with scores above 90% while one of the PMTCT hospitals scored above 70% 3. Institutionalized the use of complimentary Quality improvement tools, e.g., SIMS tool, NigeriaQual Questionnaires, and facility mentorship logbook across the 28 USAID funded and MSH supported health facilities in Kebbi state. This has led to improvement in HIV services. 4. Designed an Excel monitoring and reporting tool for every SIMS capacity-building visit to hospitals in Kebbi state, used by M and E, Laboratory, Community, Supply chain, and clinical unit to report all SIMS supervisory visits and interventions and remedial actions. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2014 | Employer: Eldunamis Center | Title: Medical Officer | Department: Medicine and Surgery |
Responsibilities:Built capacity of nurses and midwives on the administration of long-term reversible contraception including IUCD and Implants, management of side effects, basic and emergency obstetric care, sexual and reproductive health including STI management, integration of Family planning, and HIV services.Conducted training needs assessment for SFH and managed the medical center’s quality portfolio, including establishing referral directory for complicated Long. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2012 to 2013 | Employer: Bob Hospital | Title: Medical Officer of Health (Emergency) | Department: Medicine and Surgery |
Responsibilities:Provides emergency services to a pool of health insurance patients. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2012 to 2013 | Agency: Nigeria/Akoko South East Primary Health care | Role: Medical Officer of Health | Description: Provides oversight to implementation of the primary healthcare package for the community including immunization, vaccine supply chain management, and nutrition support. |
| Years: 2011 to 2011 | Agency: Nigeria/Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti | Role: Intern Doctor | Description: Served as the first on call in O and G department, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery. |
International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 2016 to 2016 | Country / Region: The Hague, Netherlands | Summary: Private Public Mix Model Expert/Consultant- Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Membership: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Nigeria Cancer Society International AIDS Society (IAS) Nigeria Medical Association |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Capacity Development (DiploFoundation) Health Economics (World Bank Institute) Project Management Professional Certificate Health, Safety and Environment Certificate Basic Life Support American Cardiac Life Support Commonwealth Discovering Young Leaders Certificate Online Certificate in Health Planning and Epidemiology (American University of Armenia) Advanced Clinical Trials design and implementation research Certificate in Pharmaceutical marketing and medical equipment supply chain Diploma in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Genomic research |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Community Development Service Coordinator/MDG Local Government Focal Person NYSC, Ondo State Primary Health Care, Isua Akoko Presiding Officer Independent National Electoral Commission Program Coordinator Hospital and Prison Outreach, Ile-Ife, Osun State |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Ondo State Award for Community Development Projects, National Youth Service Corps- NNPC/Total-Elf University Scholarship National Merit Award Osun State Bursary Recipient Project Grant Award/Sponsorship by Honorable Chairman, Akoko South East Local Government for the 22 projects executed under the approval of the National Youth Service Corps/Millennium Development Goals, Ondo State-October Best Implementation/Humanitarian Service Provider (nonprofit category) |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Medical doctor, research scientist, expert witness, project manager Years: 11 |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has ~14 publications in TB, HIV, hepatitis, lung health, quality improvement, and gen expert, and microscopy diagnosis. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| - Gave expert witness in the case of a gunshot injury, paternity investigation, recency HIV testing (long term vs. recent infections), sudden death, poisoning, and other medical cases of public health and social importance - Expert consultant to various consulting/expert websites over the last 3 years, e.g., Zintro, GLG, Infomeo, Maven, etc. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Pediatric and Adult Nutrition, TB/HIV Collaboration, Basic and Emergency Obstetric Care, FP/HIV integration 2014-2015 Research Methodology Update Course National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Nigeria July 25-29, 2016 Private Public Mix Seminar, The Hague Netherlands 2-8 October 2016 International AIDS Society Conference South Africa 2016 Training on Research Methodology July 2016 • Training of General Health Care workers on Mobile App for Tuberculosis Screening (MATS) Tool • Training of healthcare workers on Patient charter for TB care • Training of Healthcare workers on quality of care using Safe care and ISTC Tools and Directly Observed Therapy Shortcourse(DOTS) • Tuberculosis Modeling Course organized by London School of Tropical Medicine at the World Union Conference, The Netherlands, 2018 • Malaria in Pregnancy Short Course, USAID e-learning |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Procurement of Project vehicle and facility enablers under the DGIS Project funded by a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Successfully procured anti-TB medications and antiretroviral therapy from UNITAID and Global Drug facility. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Marketing of Point of Care Diagnostics, medical equipment, laboratory reagents for molecular PCR machines, electrophoresis, CD4, Rapid HIV test kits, Malaria kits, Glucometers for private hospitals. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Facilitator for the training of State technical working group HIV treatment and care HIV Counselling and Testing Working knowledge of National and WHO HIV/AIDS Guidelines Ability to work effectively in a team Good managerial and leadership skills Computer proficiency in desktop publishing-use of Microsoft tools, SPSS, etc Strong communication and analytical skills and use of analytics and visualization software e,g advanced Excel user, Power BI, Tableau, R and Python, SAS, SPSS, Prism, etc |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fluent |
| Yoruba | Fluent |
| French | Intermediate |
Fields of Expertise
surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, infectious medical waste management, nosocomial infection, infectious disease transmission, bacterial pneumonia, malaria, AIDS therapy, human immunodeficiency virus, human immunodeficiency virus testing, continuous quality improvement, drug-resistant tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pediatric nutrition, public health, telemedicine, community health, hospital epidemiology, hospital medicine, patient risk management, patient care management, medical diagnostic imaging, quality improvement, iron-deficiency anemia, food component, tuberculous meningitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, clinical supply manufacturing, infectious disease, chronic disease, clinical trial, clinical trial design