Joshua Taiwo
Site Location:
Nigeria, Abuja
Associated Site:
AfriHEDI Medical Research Clusters
About my site
AfriHEDI Medical Research Clusters hosts a site for health workers across organizations within Nigeria: He has been a coordinator for 5years and offers 1-2 courses yearly. The site meets weekly during the course to discuss the course materials and strategize relevant integration to participants’ work as a way of improving the healthcare system in Nigeria. Career and expert individuals support the site to facilitate the weekly discussions to enrich the participants with relevant on-the-job experiences. You can contact him for more information if you are interested in participating in an eDGH course with his site. The site admits participants across organizations and individuals from the entirety of Nigeria!
Bio
Joshua is a public health development specialist in Nigeria. He co-founded African Health Education and Development Initiatives (AfriHEDI) in 2014 as a community-based nonprofit organization that supports communities in implementing maternal and child, gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS interventions through funding from international donors and trust funds. He received his BSc in Microbiology and MSc in Medical Microbiology from AAUA (2010) and the University of Benin (2019), respectively. He has worked in the program’s M&E department and as an independent consultancy for USAID, US CDC, yhe Netherlands Embassy in Nigeria, World Bank, Global Fund, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation designing, implementing, evaluating, and conducting research to improve program deliveries in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. Currently, he works with an NGO where he provides technical support to the federal Ministry of Health, National Primary Health Care Development Agency and States Primary Health Care Development Agencies in Six States in Nigeria on infant and child survival interventions that aim to reduce infant and under five morbidity and mortality. He has a lifelong vision of reducing the easily preventable health issues among women, girls, and children in Africa. Working with eDGH has been a wonderful way to improve his leadership, facilitation, and capacity building skills around health as a way of fulfilling his vision.
Courses Offered
Project Management in Global Health
Monitoring and Evaluation in Global Health
Leadership and Management in Health
Introduction to Epidemiology for Global Health
Fundamentals of Implementation Science
Economic Evaluation in Global Health
Clinical Management of HIV