Dr. Kenneth Onome Adagba
Associate
Dr. Kenneth Onome Adagba (Male). Kenneth is an experienced public health physician with over 18 years of combined educational attainment and progressive experience in healthcare financing, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and TB/HIV clinical care, program management and health system research. He is efficient in program design, planning and implementation, attentive to details, easily adapts to new processes, and has excellent report writing skills. As a consultant public health physician, Ken has a proven record of leadership, a team player with excellent interpersonal skills, he thrives well in a fast-paced environment and has presented abstracts and published articles in local and international conferences and well renowned journals. Dr. Kenneth is the Training and Research Coordinator at the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Centre, Saye-Zaria which is under the department of public health, Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja and a fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and consults for several development partners and organizations. Kenneth is happily married with kids and enjoys travelling, reading and making new friends. After a successful National Youth Service Corp in 2006, Kenneth was appointed Special Assistant to the Honorary Special Adviser to Mr. President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Maternal and Child Health (Prof. Friday E. Okonofua), a position he held till May 28th, 2007 and later joined the Federal Ministry of Health as a medical officer in the Department of Public Health in July, 2007. He functioned as the focal point for National TB prevalence survey until he was posted to the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Centre in 2011 where he rose to be Head of Clinical service and Training Departments.