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Dr. Faisal Shuaib, a public health specialist, who was a Senior Program Officer, Africa, for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, BMGF, at Seattle, USA was named as the Executive Director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA by the President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari. This was contained in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant on media and Publicity, Garba Shehu and sent to DAILY POST on January 2017.

The statement said Shuaib is responsible for “developing and implementing strategies on polio outbreak response activities in Africa” at BMGF.

Prior to joining the foundation, “Shuaib coordinated Nigeria’s successful response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as the Incident Manager of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre in 2014,” the statement said.

The Presidency also disclosed that Shuaib was a member of the six-man panel established to assess the “response of the World Health Organization, WHO, to the global Ebola outbreak in 2014 and provided technical advice to the Federal Ministry of Health and NPHCDA in areas of immunization and polio eradication activities between 2012 and 2015.

“Dr. Shuaib had in the past also worked as a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.”

In August, 2020 Nigeria received a Wild Polio Virus (WPV) free certificate by the World Health Organization (WHO). The NPHCDA under the leadership of Dr. Shuaib have been given awards by the Federal Ministry of Health, Rotary International and other partners for the Agency’s immense hardwork and dedication.

The Executive Director thanked the Presidency, his staff, partners and those who lost their lives in the fight against polio over the recent years and charged everyone to not relent on fighting against polio and other diseases.

He said (via his twitter account @drfaisalshuaib):

“One down, two to go before we globally rid humanity of this dreaded disease. We stand on the precipice of greatness, reaching out to grab a future that is resplendent with the promise of health, security and socioeconomic development for us all.”