As Africa responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have shifted health agendas and funding to focus on outbreak preparedness and management. However, how has the outbreak impacted pre-existing health concerns? How have responses differed regionally?
This webinar will present a comparative multi-country perspective of the effects of COVID across the African region. Panellists will discuss individual country policy responses, the impact of COVID on health services (such as outpatient visits, vaccinations and skilled birth visits) and approaches to tackling excess mortality.
This online public event is free and open to all. Register to view the event on Zoom, or tune into the Facebook livestream at 2:00 PM (BST). The event will be recorded and uploaded to the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa's Facebook and Youtube pages shortly after.
For all enquires please email Kojo Apeagyei
About the speakers:
Dr Mosoka Fallah
Dr Mosoka Fallah is a public health consultant and was recently made a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was previously appointed by the President of Liberia as Deputy Director for Technical Services in the newly established National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL). In that capacity, he provides supervision for the Divisions of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease, Public health and medical Research, Public Health Diagnostics among others. Now He is the Director General of the institute appointed by the President to spare head the day to day functions of NPHIL.
Dr. Fallah is the Principal Investigator for the largest Cohort study on Ebola Survivor in Liberia. During the Ebola crisis in Liberia he served as the Head of Case Detection in the Montserrado Incident Management System administering critical aspects of Liberia’s Ebola response. Dr. Fallah provides training for surveillance, contact tracing, case management, and community mobilization. He was instrumental in developing the training of trainers’ workshops for health workers across the national response.
Dr Solomon Kamurari
Dr Solomon Kamurari is the Head of Programmes at the Uganda UK Health Alliance. He is a medical doctor with vast experience and skills in Global Health Project Planning and Management.
Dr Helen Yifter Bitew
Dr. Helen Yifter Bitew is the Director for Academic Affairs, College of Health Sciences at Addis Ababa University overlooking the operations of over 120 academic programmes. She is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine at Addis Ababa University. She is a consultant Internist and Endocrinologist at the Tikur Anbessa Hospital. Her interests include medical education and the role of primary care to address issues related to non-communicable diseases, diabetes and diabetes complication.
Abiy Seifu Estifanos
Abiy Seifu Estifanos (@AbiySe) is the Chair of the Department of Reproductive, Family and Population Health in the School of Public Health at Addis Ababa University. He is a public health specialist with more than 10 years of experience in design, implementation, and evaluation of maternal and newborn health programmes, quality improvement interventions, and health systems strengthening. He teaches newborn and child health courses to graduate and undergraduate health sciences students, and conducts large scale observational, interventional and implementation research. He advises the ministry of health and health development partners in Ethiopia and the World Health Organization in Geneva on newborn and child health research, program design and evaluation.
Dr Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas
Dr Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas is a research Fellow at LSE Health and recipient of the AXA Future Research Leader Fellowship. Previously, as Fellow in Health Policy, he convened the Health Policy and Systems in Developing Countries course, and contributed to delivery of the Financing Health Care and Health Care Economic Evaluation modules for both regular and executive students.
Dr Banke-Thomas has experience in clinical medicine, programme design and implementation, impact assessment, operational research, monitoring and evaluation working across public, private and third sector. He has worked across different settings, both developed and developing countries. His work has mostly been centred around the intersection between research, policy, and advocacy for maternal and newborn health.
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