Current Position
Resident Advisor, Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP) at African Field Epidemiology Network
Background
Dr Muhammad Shakir Balogun works with the African Field Epidemiology Network primarily as the Resident Advisor of the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP). He has led the implementation of the NFELTP at the advanced, intermediate and frontline levels. He also leads teams working on National Public Health Institute Strengthening, Sub-national health security strengthening, Wildlife Surveillance, cerebrospinal meningitis enhanced surveillance and vaccine effectiveness evaluation.
Experience
He has a lot of experience working with governments and partners in Nigeria and other African countries to implement public health interventions. Some of the grants he’s currently managing include the US President’s Malaria Initiative. He is member of many technical working groups and was Health Security Subject-Matter Expert in the Health Sector Reform Committee during the last administration. He has led, participated in, and supervised disease outbreak responses and other public health emergencies including COVID-19, botulinum food poisoning, cholera, monkey pox, meningitis, measles, yellow fever, Lassa fever. He also provides epidemiological support to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control especially in Health Security.
Education
He is a medical graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he also did his MPH in Field and Laboratory Epidemiology. He trained as a Medical Microbiologist at the ABU Teaching Hospital. He was in the first cohort of the GIBACHT Fellowship in Infectious Disease Epidemiology administered by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the Bernard Nocht Institute, the Robert Koch Institute and AFENET.
Publications & Research
He has published over 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, served as a reviewer to many journals and presented at local and international conferences.
