Onaopemipo Salami

Onaopemipo P. Salami is a seasoned Public Health Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist with over a decade of experience in designing and implementing robust frameworks for program evaluation. His expertise spans statistical analysis, data visualization, and real-time monitoring across diverse projects, including those funded by global organizations like the World Bank and AfDB.

Leen Daoud

Leen Daoud is a public health expert with a strong emphasis on disease surveillance, strengthening immunization systems, and health system strengthening. Currently serving as a Technical Officer at EMPHNET since 2020, Leen contributes to enhancing healthcare systems’ readiness to respond effectively to various public health challenges. Her areas of focus include NTDs, immunization, surveillance, RCCE […]

Jerome Nyhalah Dinga

Founder/CEO of Michael Gahnyam Gbeugvat Foundation; a nonprofit organization to meet the health aspirations of persons with special needs/disabilities (PWD). The organization uses a holistic, inclusive approach that acknowledges the diversity of needs and experiences, research and data collection, and policy advocacy to address the physical, mental, and social challenges of PWD.

Arianna Rubin Means

Dr. Means is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, where she specializes in implementation science and mixed methods needed to inform programmatic and policy decisions.

Olaitan Omitola

Olaitan Omitola has a background in parasitology with a focus on tropical diseases such as malaria and the neglected tropical diseases. Olaitan is particularly interested in research focused on vector biology and vector-targeted control startegies.

Molly Mort

Program Officer on the NTD team at the Gates Foundation working on the Product Development/Operational Team.

Moudachirou Ibikounle

Moudachirou Ibikounle is a full professor of parasitology at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin. Moudachirou’s works are focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases especially on Schistosomiasis, Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis, Lymphatic Filariaris and Onchocerciasis epidemiology, control and elimination.

Gertrudis Ribado Meñe

Gertrudis Ribado Meñe is always willing to learn something new; only with continuous learning self-improvement is achieved; available to teach others and watch them grow.

Olusola Olaleye

A graduate of Microbiology (first and Masters degree). Olusola has 8 years experience as a research officer with Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis Research . She has laboratory and field experience in neglected tropical diseases.

Gideon Kye-Duodu

Gideon Kye-Duodu is a lecturer of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ho, Ghana, with trainings in the areas of implementation research, field epidemiology, biomedical science, systematic reviews and innovative thinking in research, teaching and learning. Gideon’s broad research areas of interest are infectious […]