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2022 - Present, CEO, ApHO Digital Health Solutions

ApHO Digital Health Solutions is a global health consulting firm that apposes ordinary users with service providers for on-demand services that are tailored to their personal needs. ApHO Digital Health Solutions utilize technology as an interface between users and service providers, as an option to the traditional means of physical movement in search of health services - one riddled with transportation challenges, out-of-pocket spending and occasional neglect, especially in public health facilities.

2021 - Present, COO, Robust Agency for Education and Community Transformation (REACT)

REACT is an indigenous non-governmental organization in Uganda that works with key stakeholders to respond to the ever-growing demand for quality and accessible technical assistance in delivery of community-based health and education capacity-building services.

2020 – Present, Infection Prevention and Control Specialist/Field Coordinator, World Health Organization (WHO)

PROFILE

Public health and project management expert with a laboratory and microbiology background. More than 17 years of experience in strengthening and upscaling laboratories and health systems in Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Somalia, Uganda, USA, and Zimbabwe, to create resilient and sustainable programs sensitive enough to detect global health security risks from microbial threats. Former Senior Laboratory Advisor and National Program Lead (Blood and Injection Safety) for the Centre for Clinical Care and Clinical Research in Nigeria, and Senior Technical Advisor with Jhpiego in Liberia. Also served as the Country Technical Officer for the University of Maryland School of Medicine Global Laboratory Program in Nigeria, and as Technical Specialist for the Chemonics Global Supply chain project in Malawi. Former Laboratory and Surveillance Technical Specialist for the World Health Organization in Somalia and Zimbabwe.

Past

Senior Laboratory Technical Advisor and National Blood Safety and Injection Safety Project Lead, Center for Clinical Care and Clinical Research.- Abuja, Nigeria

Proudest Achievement: Testing services activated under my supervision at 42 comprehensive Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) sites, 726 Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) sites and 86 TB/HIV sites. HIV testing service provider to over two million people; anti-retroviral therapy services to 32,979 persons and (DNA) (PCR) testing for Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) to 3,375 HIV-exposed infants.

These results informed the development of the Nigerian policy for private sector engagement in HIV care.

Senior Technical Advisor, Jhpiego-Monrovia, Liberia

Proudest Achievement: The Liberia Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists awarded me their most distinguished national award, a Certificate of Honor (2018) for developing the country’s policy guidelines for the Board of Accreditation and Licensure of Medical Laboratory Technicians and the constitution for the Liberia Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists.

Public Health Expert, Laboratory and Surveillance-WHO-Mutare, Zimbabwe

Proudest Achievement: Led the team that produced the Health Resources Availability Mapping System (HeRAMS), a strategic report that provided timely, relevant and reliable information about health resources, to the relevant decision-makers.

Skills

Public Health Consulting, Epidemiology, Global Health, Laboratory

CONTACT

www.aphodigitalhealth.com

mukiibim@aphohealth.com

+256 780 915 402