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This Expert's name is Shola Dele-Olowu, MD, MSc

This Expert's occupation is Doctor
This Expert's location is Nigeria
This Expert's nationality is Nigerian (Nigeria)

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Snapshot

Experience

10+ years

Languages

English

Countries of Work

Nigeria

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Innovative financing
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health-related surveys
  • Disease prevention
  • Immunization
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • PHC
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Forecasting/quantification
  • Inventory management
  • Logistics management information system
  • Procurement
  • Supply chain and commodity costing
  • Supply chain organizational capacity and workforce
  • System design
  • Warehousing and Distribution

Professional Experience

  • Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

    Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
    Multiple roles- Senior Program Manager then Deputy Director, Vaccines and Primary Health Care (PHC) Program. Technical team lead providing strategic oversight for overall planning and management across the organizations programmatic work on vaccines and primary health care systems in Nigeria

  • Direct Consulting and Logistics (DCL) Ltd

    Nov 2014 - Mar 2018
    Multiple roles from Research consultant to Managing Director: Led Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) projects in Nigeria supporting IVAC Nigeria Country Director, co-developed proposals for grants of over $3million. I also provided research and implementation support for IVAC’s policy, communication and advocacy work on sustainable and innovative immunization financing

  • Solina Health Limited

    Aug 2012 - Oct 2014
    Senior Associate/Health management consultant. Managed projects at strategic and implementation levels across health facility, local, state and national levels on donor supported programs (including PEPFAR funded HIV/AIDS programs, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funded immunization programs, Mckinsey and company, the Centre for Health Market Innovations)

Education

  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & London School of Economics and Political Science

    Graduated 2014
    MSc, Health Policy Planning and Finance; PG Diploma LSTHM

  • University of Jos

    Graduated 2009
    Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB.BS)

Publications

  • Lessons from a training needs assessment to strengthen the capacity of routine immunization service

    Published Sep 2019 View publication

  • We need to question all ‘donor fads’, not only performance based financing. BMJ Global health

    Published Mar 2018 View publication

  • Evaluation of a pilot intervention to redesign the decentralized vaccine supply chain system in Nige

    Published Feb 2017 View publication

  • The government cannot do it all alone

    Published Jul 2015 View publication

Areas of Expertise

  • General
  • Coaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Training
  • Remote Coaching
  • Civil society engagement
  • Strengthening linkages between community health and PHC
  • Direct facility financing
  • Domestic resource mobilization
  • Financing for PHC and community health (preventive, promotive, and curative care
  • Innovative financing
  • Resource allocation
  • Strategic health purchasing
  • Decentralization
  • Health management, policy and planning
  • Institutional strengthening
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Private sector engagement
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Strategy development
  • Data reporting and analysis
  • Disease-specific surveillance
  • Health-related surveys
  • Disease prevention
  • Immunization
  • Community health workers--engagement, capacity-building and retention
  • Human resources planning, management, training and development
  • Staff motivation and retention
  • Cost benefit analysis
  • Data collection methodology
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Research
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Costing
  • Dissemination and knowledge brokering
  • Fiscal space analysis
  • Health provider capacity mapping
  • Policy analysis
  • Political economy analysis
  • Problems and priorities assessment
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Community health services
  • Design and organization of service delivery models that include PHC and community health services
  • PHC
  • Facilitating stakeholder dialgoue
  • Strategic communications for engaging with community stakeholders for health
  • Forecasting/quantification
  • Inventory management
  • Logistics management information system
  • Procurement
  • Supply chain and commodity costing
  • Supply chain organizational capacity and workforce
  • System design
  • Warehousing and Distribution