Partner Focus Area: Non-Communicable Diseases

Bisi Bright

Bisi Bright is a Consultant Clinical Pharmacist, Lecturer and Public Health Manager. She is 1st Vice Chairman and CEO of LiveWell Initiative LWI, a nonprofit healthcare enterprise which is targeted at empowering populations across the spectrum with health literacy. Through its Academy, the organization has trained and mentored several undergraduates and postgraduate students in various field sof healthcare and the social sciences.
•Former Secretary General of the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists and past Africa/Middle East rep of the FIP PI (International Pharmaceutical Federation), she sat on the Faculty of the Economist Conferences’ Healthcare in Africa.
•Served on 2 Working Groups of FIP (Maternal & Child Health / Patients as Partners)
•She designed and Chaired an FIP Session F2 in Lisbon, Portugal and has delivered papers at 5 FIP Congresses
•Currently co-supervising a Doctoral (PhD) Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, at LiveWell Initiative LWI
•An Alumnus of the Anderson School of Management , UCLA in Public Health Management
•Works in the areas of Noncommunicable Diseases, Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition and Wellness, Illness Poverty Alleviation, Executive Health, Workplace Wellness & Worklife Balance, Personal Hygiene Handwashing & Etiquette, Community Health Outreaches, Screening , Ebola Counselling & Hepatitis Screening, Health Empowerment & Healthcare Capacity Development in the areas of Soft Skills & Technical Knowhow.

Billie Puyat Murga

I am passionate about designing and delivering health programs with powerful and effective communication strategies that provide sustainable solutions.

I have an MSc in Public Health (Health Promotion) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and I am a graduate of the Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.

I have worked in both the public and private health sector in the Philippines doing research, policy, program management, marketing, and communication, which has given me a broad perspective on health issues and solutions.

beza

i am working in ministry of health ,Ethiopia, as health communication expert. bsc in health education & promotion and specialized in mph public health nutrition,as an expert i am engaged in the development of different IEC/BCC materials,train in communication skills to implement SBCC strategies.

Barbara de Zalduondo

Barbara de Zalduondo is an independent consultant specializing in the social determinants and dimensions of HIV and other complex biosocial challenges in global health. With 30 years of research, policy, and management experience in social sciences and public health in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. de Zalduondo has designed and led collaborative HIV programme planning and evaluation, policy analysis, capacity development and evidence based advocacy initiatives for combination HIV prevention at global and country levels. She has driven innovative, collaborative research on social protection and HIV, sex work and HIV, HIV-related stigma, measurement of HIV prevention outcomes, and on the interplay of culture, health and sexuality in HIV risk behaviour. Formerly a Division Chief, Associate Director, and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS, Director of Global Strategies at Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Senior Technical Advisor at USAID Division of HIV/AIDS, and on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she holds a PhD in biological anthropology from Harvard University and a Master of Science in Behavioral Sciences from The Harvard School of Public Health.