Presenters
Adaeze Aidenagbon
Project Director, Nigeria
Adaeze is the Project Director for the SARMAAN II (Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin in Children aged one to 59 months) project at Malaria Consortium in Nigeria. She has over a decade of experience in the management of large-scale malaria interventions and has expertise in project management, mass campaigns, advocacy and communications.
Ani Steele
Research Specialist, UK
Ani supports a range of qualitative research across Malaria Consortium's offices and partner countries. Prior to joining the organisation, she worked on several large-scale global health evaluations, utilising her Master of Public Health from Imperial College London.
Dr Anthony Nuwa
Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Uganda
Anthony provides technical support and leadership to Uganda's country programmes. He is a member of Malaria Consortium's Global Technical Team and Senior Technical Team. Anthony has over 20 years' experience as a medical doctor and expertise in health services research, monitoring and evaluation, and operational research on malaria prevention, diagnostics and case management.
Dr Chinazo Ujuju
Senior Project Manager, Nigeria
Dr Chinazo Ujuju is Senior Project Manager for perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC-Effect) project implemented by Malaria Consortium in Nigeria. She has 20 years of experience providing evidence to inform health interventions. Her experience spans multiple thematic areas in health, including malaria, maternal and child health and reproductive health. Chinazo is now focusing on designing, implementing and evaluating public health programmes in malaria. She has her MSc in Global Health and Infectious Diseases from the University of Edinburgh. She has implemented several research projects to generate evidence for policy implementation and has co-authored several scientific publications.
Chukwuebuka Ezihe
Entomologist, Nigeria
Chukwuebuka is an entomologist with over 11 years’ experience, coordinating entomological studies and insecticide-treated net (ITN) durability assessments in the Ondo and Anambra ITN Campaign Monitoring and Evaluation project. He provides technical guidance to ensure sound vector control strategies. He provides oversight, technical inputs to vector surveillance and guides data-informed decision-making for both the project and Malaria Consortium Nigeria.
Ebenezer Ikechukwu
SMC Data Analyst, Nigeria
Ebenezer supports monitoring and evaluation, surveillance, surveys, and data analytics across seven countries implementing seasonal malaria chemoprevention. With over 13 years of experience, he has contributed to the design, implementation and evaluation of monitoring and evaluation systems and surveillance systems across numerous public-health areas. His interests are in data-driven approaches that enhance programme quality, and in modelling intervention effectiveness decay to optimise public-health response and inform sustainable impact.
Helen Hawkings
Senior Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Specialist, UK
Helen has over 25 years’ experience advancing behavioural science and community engagement in global health. She collaborates with governments, local actors and donors to develop, evaluate and scale SBC approaches that inform policy, strengthen systems and achieve behaviour change in diverse contexts.
Dr Jane Achan
Principal Advisor, UK
Jane is a medical doctor and Principal Advisor at Malaria Consortium, where she oversees and supports the organisation’s research agenda, having a number of years of field experience in malaria, child health and clinical studies. Her professional interests include evaluation of chemotherapeutic interventions to guide health policy, evaluation of health-related impact of interventions, and operational health systems research.
Dr Jennifer U. Chukwumerije
Technical Specialist, Nigeria
Jennifer is a medical doctor and Technical Specialist of the seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) project in Nigeria, where she provides technical leadership and coordination to ensure high-quality planning, implementation, monitoring and research of SMC in the nine supported states. She has a master's degree in Public Health Field Epidemiology and many years of previous work experience in medicine regulations.
Lizzie Burrough
Project Manager (Global Projects), UK
Lizzie is a development sector project management professional. She manages a number of global projects at Malaria Consortium, including Resilience Against Future Threats through Vector Control, and the RBM Surveillance Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group Surveillance Practice & Data Quality Committee.
Matteo Bottecchia
Research Project Manager, UK
Matteo is a public health specialist with over a decade of experience delivering health programmes in resource-limited settings. As a Research Project Manager, he leads a multi-country team conducting the Be In A Net study, innovative research that explores behavioural solutions to maximise the impact of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria prevention.
Dr Michael Ekholuenetale
Research and Knowledge Management Specialist, Nigeria
Michael Ekholuenetale is the Country Research and Knowledge Management Specialist at Malaria Consortium, Nigeria. He leads research, implementation science and evidence-based knowledge translation to strengthen malaria prevention and control. With extensive public health experience, he supports strategic decision-making, capacity building and implementation of effective interventions improving population health outcomes.
Monica Anna de Cola
Results Measurement Analyst, UK
Monica is a Results Measurement Analyst at Malaria Consortium and a PhD candidate at the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College. Her research focuses on using routinely collected data to estimate the impact of malaria prevention interventions and using mathematical modelling techniques to better estimate and understand impact in these data sources.
Olabisi Ogunmola
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Nigeria
Olabisi's background is in monitoring, evaluation and health system strengthening, with over a decade of experience in implementing malaria prevention and control interventions. She has led technical data-driven programme design, evaluation and capacity strengthening, driving evidence-based strategies that improve child health outcomes and strengthen public health systems in Nigeria.
Dr Olusola (Sola) Oresanya
Senior Technical Advisor, Nigeria
Sola is a public health specialist with over 25 years’ post-qualification experience as a medical doctor in programme design, policy formulation, planning, implementation, surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of malaria control strategies. As Senior Technical Advisor for implementation and operations, she provides support at the organisational level to the development of Malaria Consortium’s core competence in implementation science through technical leadership, technical contributions, technical oversight and quality assurance. This is specifically in implementation research and operational research to ensure high-quality outputs at all levels — programme, country and global.
Dr Poe Poe Aung
Technical Specialist, Thailand
Poe Poe is a public health research scientist with a background in medicine. She works on infectious diseases including malaria, dengue, HIV, tuberculosis, sexual and reproductive health, and water, sanitation and hygiene. She has provided technical assistance to programmes in Asia and Africa and is contributing to global projects, including the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Vector Control Working Group, and Resilience Against Future Threats through Vector Control.
Richard Kajubi
Project Manager, Research, Uganda
Richard currently serves as the Project Manager, Research, at Malaria Consortium Uganda. As a medical doctor and research scientist with over 15 years’ experience, he supports the organisation to manage clinical trials in tropical infectious diseases.
Ruth Kigozi
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Kampala
Ruth has over 15 years of experience in implementing health research, developing disease surveillance systems, collecting high-quality data, and analysing and interpreting data to inform future programmes.
Semiu Rahman
Statistical Analyst, Nigeria
Semiu serves as a Statistical Analyst on the PMC Effect study at Malaria Consortium, where he contributes to evidence-based research, leading quantitative data analysis and results measurement. He holds a PhD in Demography and Social Statistics and brings over a decade of expertise in social epidemiology, statistical analysis, monitoring and evaluation, and operational research.
Shobiechah Wulandhari
Technical Officer, Thailand
Wulan has been based in Bangkok since 2021. She holds an MSc in Tropical Medicine with focus on medical entomology and parasitology. She is the coordinator for the APMEN Vector Control Working Group. Her work focuses on strengthening capacity among public health entomologists across Asia Pacific, managing the ORENE website and contributing to arbovirus-related project activities in Africa.
Dr Yonas Assefa
Project Manager, Ethiopia
Yonas is a medical doctor and epidemiologist, serving as Project Manager at Malaria Consortium. He led the Ethiopian component of multi-country long-COVID studies and has extensive experience overseeing epidemic and pandemic surveillance, including malaria and COVID-19. His professional interests include operational research, data-driven public health decision-making and building resilient health systems.
Other staff attending
Alicia Nizet
Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, UK
Alicia holds a master’s degree in public health and has experience in research, as well as in managing, monitoring and evaluating public health programmes across Asia and Africa. She previously worked with several international NGOs (including Terre des Hommes, Action Against Hunger, IMPACT – REACH, and Humanity & Inclusion), as well as with the UK Health Security Agency and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Anna Burkhard
Senior Research Officer, UK
Anna engages on a range of research projects across Malaria Consortium, focusing on seasonal malaria chemoprevention and clinical research. She holds an MPH in Epidemiology and an MSc in Microbiology. Her professional interests include drug and diagnostic resistance, chemopreventative efficacy and malaria transmission.
Bronwen Davies
Research Coordinator, UK
Bronwen works from the UK office supporting projects across South Sudan and Nigeria, as well as a variety of work related to seasonal malaria chemoprevention. Bronwen has an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, where she specialised in conflict and human rights across East Africa and Latin America.
Celia Yeung
External Relations Manager, SMC Programme, UK
Celia leads global external relations and communications for Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme, overseeing strategy development and supporting the implementation of plans that amplify the programme’s reach and impact across its SMC-implementing countries. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Hong Kong and has a decade of experience in public health communications, education and advocacy at international NGOs. Celia is passionate about strengthening partnerships and visibility to advance malaria prevention across Africa.
Christian Rassi
SMC Programme Director, UK
Christian is the Director of Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) programme. He is based in London and has led the SMC programme since 2019. Previously, he managed Malaria Consortium’s participation in a research programme consortium that explored health service delivery issues.
Dr Chuks Nnaji
Senior Technical Advisor, UK
Chuks is a Senior Technical Advisor at Malaria Consortium, where he provides strategic leadership and technical guidance across the organisation’s programmes, with a particular focus on seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC). He oversees and steers the technical direction of Malaria Consortium’s SMC portfolio, ensuring the programme delivers maximum impact and contributes to global thought leadership in malaria prevention.
Dr James Tibenderana
Chief Executive, UK
James is Malaria Consortium’s Chief Executive, a trained medical doctor and malaria public health expert with over 25 years of experience in the fields of epidemiology, infectious and tropical diseases, and health system strengthening. He is passionate about, and remains actively involved in, operational research on communicable diseases.