Innovative Approaches to Expanding Health Care Services in Nigeria:
A Discussion with the Hon. Minister of State for Health
September 21st 2011 11.00 am – 2pm
Africare, 440 R Street
NW Washington, DC 20001
Agenda
11.00 am – 11.15 am
Welcoming Remarks
11.15 am - 11.20 am
Ms. E. Diane White, Chief Operating Officer (Acting), Africare
Introduction of the Honorable Minister of State for Health of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria
11.20 am – 11.45pm
Dr Kechi Achebe, Deputy Director Office of Health and HIV/AIDS, Africare
Innovative Approaches to Expanding Health Care Services in Nigeria
11.45 am - 12.00 pm
Dr Muhammad Ali Pate, the Honorable Minister of State for Health in Nigeria
Overview of key US NGO activities in Nigeria
12. 00 pm – 12.35 pm
Nkata Chuku, MD, MSc. Director of Health Policy & Systems Management
FHI 360/ Nigeria
Moderated Discussion
12.35 pm - 12.50 pm
Dr Egbe Osifo-Dawodu, Partner Anadach Group
Expanding Health Care Services in Developing Countries – Best
practices
John Pollock, Senior Fellow, Health Reform & Finance/ Global Technical Lead
for Health Delivery & Financing Systems Strengthening
Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
1.
12. 50 pm – 1p.m
Dr Paul Waibale, Senior Technical Advisor MSH/Project Director for the
Nigeria Prevention organizational systems AIDS care and Treatment project
(ProACT), MSH/USAID Nigeria
Closing Remarks/Transition to Reception
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Dr Egbe Osifo-Dawodu, Partner Anadach Group
Dr Kechi Achebe, Deputy Director Office of Health and HIV/AIDS, Africare
Reception and Networking
Biography of Speakers
Hon. Dr Muhammad Ali Pate
Dr Muhammad Ali Pate was appointed the Honourable Minister of State for Health in Nigeria in July 2011.
His appointment follows a successful run as the Executive Director and Chief Executive of the National Primary Health
Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) where he led strategic policies and programs to restructure and strengthen
primary healthcare in Nigeria to improve access to basic health services, improve quality of care, strengthen community
engagement and develop a high-performing health workforce.
NPHCDA under Dr. Pate’s leadership led integrated programs that achieved an unprecedented reduction in polio cases
by over 90%; reduced the maternal and child mortality rate through the deployment of over 4,000 midwives to rural
areas under the midwives service scheme (MSS). As well as introducing new vaccines into the National immunization
policy 2009 (Haemophilus influenze type b, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and rota virus), he created an enabling
environment to attract partners to the Agency - including political leaders at all levels, traditional and religious leaders,
development agencies, faith-based organizations, foundations and the organized private sector.
Dr Egbe Osifo-Dawodu
Egbe is a founding partner at Anadach Group. She was previously an Adviser at the new Innovation Practice at the
World Bank Institute. In the newly formed group, she led the pilot innovation fair on fragility and conflict in South
Africa. Having won one of the first innovation awards in the World Bank Group (the precursor to the development
market place), she feels she has come full circle to now focus on innovative approaches to health care.
Prior to joining the innovation practice, as one of the core members of the Nelson Mandela Institution's management
team she helped develop and start the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja - a Pan African University
with Graduate Students from over 20 African Countries. She previously managed the Human Development Group at the
World Bank Institute where she was responsible for the World Bank's capacity building programs in health, education
and social protection. She has a relatively unusual background in the World Bank Group having led and worked on
both health policy dialogue and projects with Governments at the World Bank, and with the private health sector projects
at the International Finance Corporation. In addition, Egbe also worked with Booz, Allen and Hamilton on health issues
in the US and South Africa.
Egbe has over 23 years experience in the health care covering policy, provision and health care financing in Africa, Asia,
Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Latin America. She has also taught international health management and
finance at local universities in the Washington DC area. Egbe is a qualified medical doctor (from the University of
Ibadan) and a member of the UK Royal College of Physicians. She holds an MBA from Cranfield School of
Management and an MSc from Oxford University. She has also attended courses on the business of entertainment at the
University of Southern California and University of California Los Angeles and was a co founder of the Nollywood
Foundation based in California.
Ms. E. Diane White
Ms. White is an army brat who grew up all over the world including North Africa and Europe. She has a Harvard
MBA and Masters in International Studies from John Hopkins. She has been working in the field of international
development for 20 years, first recruited through the World Bank’s highly competitive Young Professional’s
Program and most recently as the senior manager of a market access program targeting small African (mainly
women) owned enterprises at the African Development Foundation.
She is an entrepreneur having co-founded and led a chain of decorative home stores in Washington, DC,
Philadelphia and New York and was named retailer of the year by the National Retail Federation, the largest retail
trade association in the world.
She has taught entrepreneurship at Trinity College and before coming to Africare, worked as senior advisor to the
Calvert Group, one of America’s leading socially responsible investment companies. She is co-author of the Calvert
Women’s Principles, the first corporate code of conduct to empower and advance the status of women globally.
These Principles have recently been spun off to the United Nations Global Compact and UNIFEM for global
application.
Dr. Kechi Achebe
Dr. Kechi Achebe (nee Anah) is the Deputy Director for the Office of Health & HIV/AIDS, for Africare. She joined
Africare in January 2004 bringing over 10 years of experience in program coordination, design, implementation
and overall management of health programs in developing countries to an organization focused on improving
quality of life in Africa.
Dr. Achebe also serves as the project Director for Africa’s PEPFAR-funded comprehensive HIV/AIDS project,
which provides prevention and treatment education, counseling and testing, care and treatment (including the
provision of ART, management of TB/HIV and provision of support) services to people infected and affected by
HIV, including orphans & vulnerable children (OVC), in South Africa. As the principle investigator to all of
Africare’s Care and treatment project, she provides technical expertise, leadership and supports the strategic
direction and effective implementation of state-of-the-art community based HIV projects, which includes
prevention, counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), pediatric and adult
AIDS treatment (ARV services), the management of TB/HIV); and the provision of care and support to HIV
positive people.
Prior to joining Africare, She served in various capacities with Pathfinder International, BASICS II and the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A licensed medical practitioner, Dr. Achebe earned her medical degree from
the University of Benin in Nigeria. She was awarded a Masters in Public Health in International Health (with
emphasis in Infectious and non-communicable diseases) and certificate in Finance and Management in
International Health, all from Boston University. Additionally, she was awarded a research fellowship in
Infectious disease epidemiology at the Boston Medical Center, in Massachusetts.
Dr. Achebe serves as a member of the Civil Society (CS) advisory team for the board of UNITAID, and is also a
member of various professional groups, including the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
(IAPAC), STOP-TB/WHO, Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, amongst others.
John Pollock
John Pollock serves as the Global Technical Leader for Health Delivery & Finance Systems Strengthening
(HD&FSS) for management Sciences for Health. Mr. Pollock leads and directs the conceptualization,
standardization, development, and implementation of MSH Health Delivery Systems strategies and interventions,
working to strengthen MSH’s projects and program results.
Among his global responsibilities, Mr. Pollock maintains and disseminates state of the art practices in HD&FSS
within current projects and in new project design. He also provides strategic leadership to the development of a
global network of MSH professionals supporting HD&FSS activities. He oversees the development and
documentation of successful and innovative tools for HDSS projects and results. He serves as a principal technical
advisor in HD&FSS for MSH. He synthesizes knowledge and expertise from all field projects and identifies best
practices applied in projects and in project design.
He also serves MSH as Project Director for the AIDSTAR II IQC and provides supervision, operational support,
strategic guidance, and technical assistance to the Zambia Prevention, Care, & Treatment - ZPCT2 - Project. Mr.
Pollock earned an MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Dr. Paul Waibale
Paul Waibale is a public health physician and epidemiologist working as the Project Director/Senior Technical
Advisor for the MSH Nigeria Prevention Organizational Systems AIDS Care and Treatment Project (ProACT).
Paul’s 20-year work experience with the Ministry of Health and later John Snow Inc. in Uganda, African Medical
Research Foundation (AMREF) in Tanzania, and now MSH in Nigeria gives him a good appreciation of health
systems strengthening needed to transform the health of people in developing countries.
Most recently, Paul’s work in Nigeria is strengthening state ministries of health to align partners and resources
around common health and HIV/AIDS plans.
Dr. Nkata Chuku
Nkata joined FHI Nigeria in June 2007. A health systems specialist with a first degree in Medicine from the
University of Lagos and a Master's degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing jointly awarded by from the
London School of Economics and Political Science and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Nkata was a general medical practitioner before moving full time into public health. He has worked as a member
of the ministerial technical committee on health financing for Nigeria, consultant to the DFID-funded PATHS1
program, and consultant to the Ministry of Health, DFID and HLSP on several assignments.