President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the
appointment of Faisal Shuaib as the Executive Secretary of National
Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
This is contained in a statement issued by his senior special assistant media, Garba Shehu.
The statement stated that Dr. Shuaib, a medical doctor and public
health specialist, is currently a Senior Program Officer (Africa) for
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) at Seattle, USA.
At the BMGF, Mr. Shuaib is responsible for developing and
implementing strategies on polio outbreak response activities in Africa.
Prior to joining the foundation, Mr. Shuaib coordinated Nigeria’s
successful response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as the
Incident Manager of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre in 2014.
He was also a member of the six-member panel established to assess
the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the global Ebola
outbreak in 2014 and provided technical advice to the Federal Ministry
of Health and NPHCDA in areas of immunisation and polio eradication
activities between 2012 and 2015.
Mr. Shuaib had in the past also worked as a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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