Dr. Saade Ahmed Abdallah

This platform is founded by Dr. Saade Abdallah, a free-lance Public Health and M&E Specialist who has over 25 years of diverse work experience with Ministries of Health, United Nations, local and international NGOs, audit and consulting firms plus academia in Africa, Asia and the USA. She has designed, implemented, monitored and evaluated large and complex HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and other national and multi-country and other donor funded programmes. In all her work Saade has strived to address health inequities in order to optimize health coverage and outcomes for targeted host and displaced populations, women, adolescent girls as well as vulnerable and marginalized communities. She holds an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University, MBChB from University of Nairobi plus diploma in Humanitarian Assistance.

Saade has diverse Muslim-related experience in HIV policy development, clinical practice, humanitarian assistance for Somali Refugees, flood affected populations in Coastal and North Eastern Kenya, and conflict-displaced populations in West Darfur, Sudan. In addition to evaluating Child Spacing promotion among nomadic communities, a Sports for Health Intervention for adolescent girls in Kilifi plus HIV surveillance in a female sex worker Cohort, Saade has over 7 years Harm Reduction experience with opioid dependent persons in coastal region, and over 5 years Global Fund programming experience with Muslim-dominant countries of Somalia, Zanzibar, Afghanistan and the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA).