Bolatito A•••

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Dr. Bolatito A••• is a fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College, Faculty of Public Health with more than 25 years experience in malaria control; HIV/AIDS surveillance, research and prevention; project monitoring and evaluation and recently, Tuberculosis social behavior change interventions. She has extensive experience consulting for projects sponsored by USAID, World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (GFATM). She currently serves as the Deputy Project Director for Malaria and TB with John Hopkins University Center for Communication Program project in Nigeria; Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Chief of Party for the largest United States' President Malaria Initiative (PMI) project in Nigeria and supported the CoP to close out the project successfully in December 2016. She joined the project as the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor before her elevation as the DCoP. Her vast M&E skills were utilized in her previous positions as the Associate Director, Research and Public Health Evaluation for FHI360 where she coordinated the Monitoring and Evaluation Department’s surveillance and research activities on HIV, TB and malaria. She also coordinated the national Integrated Bio-Behavioural Surveillance Survey (IBBSS) in 2007 and 2010 where she supervised a multi-centered biological and behavioral surveillance of HIV and risky behaviors among high risk groups in Nigeria. Before joining FHI, she worked as the Programme Specialist/ Prevention of Medical Transmission of HIV for the US CDC where she supervised all HIV medical transmission prevention activities in Nigeria. Dr. A••• received her Post Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology and Statistics from the University of London; Masters of Public Health from the University of Lagos and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Ibadan. Specialties- Malaria Control - Social Behavior Change - Behavioral surveys - Operational Research - Health System Strengthening - Individual and Institutional capacity building - Programme monitoring and evaluation - Project management