By Lexi Elo
Dr Faisal Shuaib, Head of the National Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, Nigeria is among a panel of independent experts commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General to undertake an assessment of all aspects of WHO’s response in the Ebola outbreak. This is in response to a resolution passed during the Ebola Special Session of the Executive Board in January 2015.
Dame Barbara Stocking, who is to chair the panel is a former Chief Executive of Oxfam GB (2001-13) and during this time led major humanitarian responses. Currently she is President of Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, UK.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
Other panel members are: Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfun, Director-General of the National Institute for Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Dr Carmencita Alberto-Banatin, independent consultant and advisor on health emergencies and disasters, Philippines; Professor Julio Frenk, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; and Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
The panel will present a first progress report on its work to the 68th World Health Assembly in May 2015.
Until the appointment as a member of independent experts to access WHO’s response in Ebola outbreak, Dr. Shuaib served as the Head, National Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, where he recently coordinated the country’s successful response to the outbreak of Ebola. He provided technical advice to the Federal Ministry of Health and National Primary Health Care Development Agency of the Nigerian government in the area of immunization and polio eradication activities.
He has worked as a Research Associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, and Director of Primary Health Care and Disease Control, and States Coordinator of WHO activities in North Central Nigeria. Dr. Shuaib holds a medical degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and the Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.