Biodata of Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje

 

CV of Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje

SHORT CITATION Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje is a civil society leader, consultant, evaluator, researcher, advocate, trainer, writer and activist, known for his works on environment, health, climate change, biodiversity, as well as in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), monitoring and evaluation (M&E), HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Mpox, COVID, public-private partnerships, maternal and new-born child health, blindness prevention, conferences, aging, human rights, community development, indigenous peoples, marginalized, vulnerable populations, one health, nutrition, health sector reforms and the nonprofit sector. He is a pioneer Fellow and former National President of the Nigeria Association of Evaluators (NAE) and was a consultant who drafted Nigeria's M&E Policy. A citizen of Nigeria, Dr. Adirieje is a World Bank-trained health economist, the CEO and Permanent Rep. of Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) to the United Nations; President, African Network of Civil Society Organizations (ANCSO); Chair, Global Consortium of Civil Society and Non-State Actors on Climate Change and Conference of Parties (GCSCCC); Chair, CSOs Strategy Group on SDGs in Nigeria, 2020-2024, and National Coordinator, Civil Society Partnership for SDGs in Nigeria (CSP-SDGs Nigeria); and President, Society for Conservation and Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN). AHOA is a global CSO network and think-tank that focuses on health and sustainable development issues. AHOA has teams/chapters in the FCT and 36 States of Nigeria. AHOA has 3,000 organizations from 120 countries as its members, and a Google Group of over 44,000 members globally.   CONTACTS Phone/WhatsApp/Tel: +234 80 34 72 59 05 Emails: afrepton@gmail.com, uzodinma.adirieje@afrihealthcsos.org;   Twitter: @uaadirieje; https://twitter.com/uaadirieje; Instagram: @druzoadirieje; https://www.instagram.com/druzoadirieje/ Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/uzoadirieje; Skype: druzoadirieje, uaadirieje@yahoo.com; Zoom: uaadirieje@yahoo.com     LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dr.+Uzodinma/Adirieje Ph/Tel/WhatsApp: +234 803 472 5905 Website: http://www.afrihealthcsos.org Blog: https://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com   EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS Imo State University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Okigwe, Nigeria Sept 1982 – July 1988 Doctor of Optometry (Concentration: Public Health)   Professional Interests: Partnerships/Collaboration; Advocacy, Communication/Media & Social Mobilization (ACSM); Research & Evidence Generation; Capacity Development; Outreach & Community Engagements; Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E); Healthcare Management, Financing & Prevention of Diseases; Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Biodiversity Conservation; Sustainable Development & SDGs; Nutrition & Food Security; Human Rights, Gender & Good Governance/Democracy.

SELECTED RESEARCH, ‘FGDS’ AND EVIDENCE GENERATION ENGAGEMENTS <https://druzoadiriejefoundation.blogspot.com/2024/07/cv-of-dr-uzodinma-adirieje-february-2024.html> 1.             Certificate, 2023: Good Clinical Practice Course, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), USA/Center for Bioethics and Research (CBR), Nigeria 2.             Certificate, 2023: Responsible Conduct of Biomedical Research Course, CITI USA/CBR Nigeria 3.             Certificate, 2023: The Nigerian National Code of Health Research Ethics, CITI USA/CBR Nigeria  4.             Certificate of Participation, International Conference on National Evaluation Capacities (NEC), held in Turin, Italy, 24-28 October 2022   FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS (FGD) FGDs Moderator, March 2020 - February 2021 National Team Supervisor and Data Collection Team Leader of the ‘Roll-out of the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, 2020’, funded by the Global Fund and implemented by Impact Sante Afrique.   FGDs Moderator, 1 Jan. 2017-Dec. 2018   Project: SUSTAINABLE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN NIGERIA’S NIGER DELTA REGION. This project covered 81 (eighty-one) FGDs across 81 LGAs/Communities in 9 Niger Delta States (Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, Rivers). It was fully funded by UNs Democracy Fund (UNDEF) and implemented by AHOA.    RESEARCH Chairperson, Community Advisory Board (CAB), 2023 - present Project: Mpox SARS-coV2 variants in Evaluation in pRegnancy and paeDIatrics cohorts (VERDI) Project, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN)   Research Team Leader, 2020 – 2021 ‘Roll-out of the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, 2020’, funded by the Global Fund and implemented by Impact Sante Afrique.   Principal Investigator (PI)/consultant to UNAIDS/ILO/UNDP/NACA on ‘Situational Assessment for a National Framework for Private Sector Response and Public-Private Partnerships on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, 2004-2005   POLICY REVIEWS AND MANUALS Consultant for the preparation of Nigeria’s Monitoring and Evaluation Policy (2020)    National Consultant to Federal Ministry of Health and Unicef, Nigeria, for the Joint Annual Review [JAR] of National Strategic Health Sector Development Plan [SHDP] in Akwa Ibom State, February-March 2012;    Consultant for the development of the ‘Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria Comprehensive Manual of Procedures’ National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA).    EVALUATION AND DATA                                                                                                          Facilitator, Training of Trainers Workshop for 51 (Fifty-One) Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the 17 Southern States of Nigeria, who were engaged for the Evaluation of the National Social Investments Programme (NSIP) in the, 2016-2022; Enugu, 11-15 April 2023   Project Consultant, September 2022 – 2023 Project: Domestication of the Inclusive Data Charter (IDC) and development of Nigeria National Action Plan to advance disaggregated and inclusive data and ensure poor and vulnerable people are fully captured in our data in line with the SDGs principle of "leave no one, behind".    Technical Consultant, February 2023 – December 2023 Project: Evaluation of the National Social Investments Programme (NSIP) of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, in the 36 States and FCT, 2016-2022    National Team Supervisor and Data Collection Team Leader of the ‘Roll-out of the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, 2020’, funded by the Global Fund and implemented by Impact Sante Afrique.   CONFERENCES ORGANIZED/MANAGED Date: 2-6 December 2024 Client: Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH). Position: Lead Rapporteur and Communiques Consultant Project: 8th Nigeria Family Planning Conference (NFPC) - a biennial event that brings together experts, partners, policy makers and other stakeholders to discuss and share experiences on the progress made and to chart the way forward towards improving the existing situation of FP in Nigeria.   Position: Lead Rapporteur and Communiques Consultant, 12-16 December 2022 Project: 7th Nigeria Family Planning Conference (NFPC) - a biennial event that brings together experts, partners, policy makers and other stakeholders to discuss and share experiences on the progress made and to chart the way forward towards improving the existing situation of FP in Nigeria.   Position: Project Consultant Project: 63rd National Council on Health (NCH) – Nigeria’s highest policy making body for the Health Sector, which membership comprises all the Ministers of Health, 36 Commissioners for Health, FCT Secretary for Health, all their permanent Secretaries and Directors, 5-9 December, Abuja   Papers reviewer, final report writer and Technical Consultant/Adviser to the Hon. Minister of State I, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the 2nd GlobalPOWER Women Network Africa High Level Meeting (HLM) Abuja 2013, organized by Government of Nigeria in collaboration with African Union, with support of UNAIDS; 27-28 June 2013;    ADVOCACY Advocacy Mission to H.E. President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, which led to the endorsement of the ‘Every Woman Treaty’ on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, 2021   Advocacy Visit to the Honorable Minister, Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) Abuja, for the enthronement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and its coverage under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS); by Afrihealth Optonet Association Nigeria on May 3, 2013   Advocacy Visit to the Honourable Commissioner for Health Enugu State, Held On November 7, 2012, at the State Ministry of Health, Enugu