Dr Alozie Ananaba

(MD, MPH, MWACP)

Managing Partner

Alozie is a medical doctor and public health expert with over 20 years senior level experience in designing and managing large scale public health programs at both national and International levels.

Alozie was a Fund Portfolio Manager with the Global Fund where he was responsible for a portfolio of grants for Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and the regional SADC grants. Alozie also held senior level positions with the World Health Organization, The United States Centre for Disease Control Global AIDs program, (CDC-GAP), The United States Department of Defence HIV programme in Nigeria (US-DOD) and UNICEF.

Alozie has also consulted internationally for UNDP, UNAIDS, WHO, USAID, UNITAID and several other International NGOs. He has vast experience at developing and managing partnerships with Governments and other International agencies with the USG, EU, DFID, CIDA and the UN family as examples.

He has authored several strategy level documents including the Presidential Comprehensive Response Plan for HIV/AIDs in Nigeria; The Nigeria Malaria Strategic Plan (2014 -2020); Global Fund proposals for Nigeria, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, Lesotho and Sierra Leone.

Alozie holds a medical degree from the University of Nigeria; a Masters’ in Public Health from the University of Lagos; a Management diploma from the Thunderbird School of Global Management Switzerland and a Membership of the West African College of Physicians.

Dr Nkata Chuku

(MD, MSC)

Founding Partner

Nkata is a public health specialist with over 14 years experience in designing and implementing strategies for increasing access to health care for those at the base of the pyramid. ​ His expertise includes developing health systems mechanisms, policy analysis and development and the application of impact and cost effectiveness analysis in choosing health interventions/approaches.

Nkata was a part of the senior management team at FHI 360 responsible for increasing the country’s portfolio from $215million to over $400million within 4 years. He was also responsible for managing a portfolio of about $20million per annum and played lead roles in developing FHI 360’s successful proposal for US government (USAID AND CDC) totalling over $550million.

He also developed and managed KPMG’s Healthcare Advisory Practice for West Africa and International Development Advisory Strategy for Nigeria. ​ He has also provided technical assistance to governments at the regional, national and sub-national levels. He supported the development of several strategy documents including the National Strategic Development Plan (NSHDP) 2010 – 2015, National HIV/AIDS Strategy 2009 – 2013 and National Tuberculosis Strategic Plan 2015 – 2020 and was a member of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) technical team that reviewed Nigeria’s UHC agenda and proposed implementing strategies

He has also consulted for international NGOs including USAID and DFID. ​ Nkata holds a medical degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London and a Diploma in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSTHM).

Dr Pat Youri

Board Chairman, HSCL

Dr. Pat Youri is a medical doctor with specialist qualifications in Paediatrics and Public Health. He has more than three decades of professional experience working in Sub-Sahara Africa and the United Kingdom.

As an independent international public health consultant, he has consulted extensively for many governments, CSOs, and funding agencies including major international donor agencies USG (USAID & CDC), DFID/UKAID, the European Commission, the World Bank, the Global Fund, and the UN System.

Rosemary Silaa

Country Lead, Tanzania

Rosemary is a Public Health professional with vast experience in Tanzania’s health sector across both private and public sub-sectors. She supports and leads HSCL projects in Tanzania.

She is an expert in Procurement and Supply Chain Management; Business Development; Human Capital Development; Operations Research both Quantitative and Qualitative and Economic Evaluations of public health programs.

While working with CHAI as Director of Programmes in Tanzania, Rosemary successfully supported the implementation of HIV service delivery programmes in rural settings; Improved availability of HIV commodities; supported the pilot for the AMFm project which transformed to a national programme. She also led the strengthening of the logistics system and developed the Pharmacy module for a commodity management tool which changed the management of HIV commodities in Tanzania.

Dr Tosin Kolade

(MD, MBA)

Associate Director, Health Financing

Oluwatosin is a medical doctor and a health financing specialist with over 15 years of experience in the health insurance industry. He has masterminded the set up and operational management of several health prepayment schemes across Nigeria.

Dr Oluwatosin Kolade has extensive experience in the health financing space in Nigeria. His core competences include medical operations, sales, marketing and managerial services. At HSCL, he leads the health financing unit of the firm where he provides strategic and managerial oversight on the implementation of donor-supported health financing projects across a number of Nigerian states. He currently manages a demand-side financing project supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Kaduna and Niger states as well as World Bank supported performance based financing project in Borno state.

Before joining HSCL, Oluwatosin has led several efforts to drive Nigeria closer to universal health coverage through the design and implementation of innovative financing mechanisms to ensure equitable access to high quality health care especially to the most vulnerable in Nigeria. Of note was the key role he played in setting up community-based health insurance schemes in Bayelsa, Oyo and Kwara states.

He has also led a number of research initiatives to generate evidence to support the design of health financing solutions with potential for lasting impact.

Timothy Udeh

(ACA)

Director, Finance

Timothy is a chartered Accountant with the Institute of chartered accountant of Nigeria and an experienced finance professional with over 8 years of experience in Financial accounting, grant/donor fund accounting and financial management in both the private and development sector.

Timothy has extensive experience with Financial management, management accounting, donor funded accounting, financial management, internal control, budgeting and financial reporting.

At HSCL, Timothy currently oversees all financial transactions, project financial monitoring, budget preparation and all financial/management accounting tasks.

He currently manages a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported grant for the Nigeria state-led Strategic Purchasing for FP project and a BMGF sub-grant for a Demand Side Financing Project. Timothy had previously managed a $2 million per year grant for the Global fund supported Nigeria Supply Chain Integration Project (NSCIP) and other short-term research projects conducted on behalf of John Snow Incorporated, Society for Family Health (SFH), institute for Human Virology (IHVN), Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN), etc. Prior to joining HSCL, Timothy worked as a Senior Credit Analyst where he managed client's portfolio and responsible for preparing the branch's financial report and recovery management

Dr Ogesanmola Omitayo

(MD, MSC)

Lead, Researcher

Ogesanmola is a dentist with over 7 years of global health research experience managing quantitative and qualitative research engagements at the national and sub-national levels. Her research endeavors are uniquely tailored to provide evidence specifically generated for programmatic design and policy making.

Ogesanmola has designed and conducted several qualitative and quantitative researches for notable organizations such as Management Sciences for Health and FHI360, JSI, Palladium Int. and Adam Smith International. She has also provided data management technical assistance on national surveys such as the 2014 Integrated Biobehavioral Survey and the 2016 Akwa-Ibom AIDS indicator Survey.

At HSCL, she leads the research unit of the firm where she provides technical oversight for the development and implementation of research engagements. She has also led the implementation of innovative research designs including the Political economy analysis of health financing in Nigeria conducted on behalf of DFID Nigeria , co-design research for MNCH 2 funded Quality of care research and a health ethnographic research on care-seeking behavior for children under 5 years on behalf of the JSI-Maternal and Child Survival Programs.