Current Position
Consultant, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI)
Background
Ms. Elsie Ilori is a public health expert with over 35 years' leadership and management experience in International Health Regulations (IHR) and global health security, specifically disease surveillance, detection, prevention, and control in high-burden, resource-limited countries. She is an experienced senior public sector manager at the forefront of strategic development and coordination of national public health surveillance systems, preparedness, and response mechanisms. Elsie is experienced and an expert in the development and implementation of National Action Plans for Health Security (NAPHS) and other IHR Monitoring and Evaluation Framework at the national and subnational levels in Nigeria.
Expertise
Her area of expertise includes public health emergency preparedness & response, disease surveillance, epidemiology, emergency operations, One Health, and Complex programme development, implementation and monitoring and immunization programs. She contributed to the digitalisation of integrated disease surveillance data in Nigeria and facilitated the deployment of the digital platform, SORMAS, in the country.
Current Roles
She is currently a Consultant with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) where she coordinates the Enable 1.5 Project in Nigeria.
Achievements
A major achievement for Elsie has been providing leadership on one of the priority diseases of public health importance in Nigeria - Lassa fever. She led the establishment and management of the national Lassa fever Technical Working Group. In this role, she co-hosted the first ever Lassa fever International Conference, the largest gathering of scientists in the field, and led the establishment of a new national Lassa fever research consortium.
Publications & Research
Elsie has led and contributed to the development of important publications on Lassa fever in major peer-reviewed journals.
Previous Roles
Elsie Ilori retired as a Director at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
