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Dr Justin Mtefu Maeda MD, MSc

Dr Justin Mtefu Maeda MD, MSc

Addis Ababa,Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Summary

Accomplished public health leader with over 17 years of experience in strategic leadership, organisational system design and implementation, and institutional development. Currently serving as Head - Planning, Reporting and Accountability at Africa CDC, driving organisational transformation and enhancing accountability systems. Proven track record in establishing regional and continental initiatives such as Continental Public Health Knowledge Hub, Regional Coordinating Centres, Continental Health Information Exchange, Result-Based Management and Organisational Decision Quality. Expertise in modern management through digital technologies, public health planning and reporting, monitoring and evaluation, and quality management system implementation. Career goal: to continue advancing global health initiatives through innovative strategies and effective leadership.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head - Planning, Reporting and Accountability

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
03.2024 - Current
  • Driving Institutional Transformation: Leading organisational change, organisational development, policy development, governance, and ensuring accountability to set results and performance measures.
  • Resource Mobilisation for System Strengthening: Support with proposal development, resource mobilisation and negotiations to fund programs while reinforcing transparency and accountability systems that link results to deployed resources.
  • Organisational strategic management and support: Serving as a strategist in many areas of organisational development, strategic engagement with external stakeholders and in the development of key organisational strategic documents.
  • System and Process Design: Establishing the systems, processes, practices, and structures for effective planning, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation. Responsible for supporting other areas of organisational systems development, such as risk management, quality management systems, result-based management, and Organisational Decision Quality.

Principal RCC Coordinator

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
01.2021 - Current
  • Institutional development and system engineering: Designing and leading the establishment of the Africa CDC Regional Coordinating Centres (RCC) in all regions of Africa and spearheading their full operationalisation.
  • Secured resources for RCC operations while providing technical and organisational support, developing implementation roadmaps and monitoring & evaluation plans.
  • Facilitated technical assistance between RCCs and National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) to enhance surveillance, improve information systems, and strengthen workforce development.
  • Regional Implementation and Adaptation: Translating Africa CDC policies and tools into regional contexts to ensure consistent public health activity implementation.

Head of Division, Management and Administration

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
06.2022 - 03.2024
  • Strategic Leadership & Management: Oversee finance, procurement, Human Resources Management, Management of Information System, facility management, and administration for a large organisation, and managing a substantial annual budget.
  • Institutional Transformation & System Development: Design and lead the organisation's evolution into a world-class public health agency, including developing operational systems, processes, and structures, and driving digitisation efforts.
  • Resource Mobilization & External Partnerships: Develop and implement strategies to secure funding and engage with external partners to support programs and organisational operations.
  • Strategic Advisory & Planning: Provide strategic advice to the Director General and M&E team on planning, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation. This includes compliance to existing regulations and rules.

Ag. Head, Surveillance and Disease Intelligence

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Strategic Leadership and Program Oversight: Oversee continental strategic to support countries on disease surveillance and early warning systems, data exchange and use, policy and governance on data sharing and information exchange, and evidence for informing public health policy and actions.
  • Early Detection System Development: Designing and implementing systems for the early detection of public health threats across Africa. These include the establishment of the organisational Event Management System and the continental Health Information Exchange standards and guidelines initiative.
  • Data science, policy and governance: Overseeing continental data science, data policy harmonisation support and coordination on data governance standardisation for Member States
  • Multi-Country Epidemic Intelligence Systems Support: Coordinate capacity building on areas of epidemic intelligence, data systems establishment, and data use for policy and public health actions
  • Team Development and Resource Management: Mentoring and coaching subordinates and managing human, material, and financial resources effectively.

Principal Epidemiologist

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
01.2019 - 12.2020
  • Data Collection and Analysis: Applying epidemiological knowledge to collect and analyze event-based surveillance data for decision-makers at Africa CDC, the African Union Commission, and Member States.
  • System and Procedure Development: Developing and maintaining standard operating procedures for surveillance activities and managing public health data through databases and tracking tools.
  • Network Building and Collaboration: Establishing and maintaining linkages with Ministries of Health and a network of contacts within public health organizations to support event-based surveillance activities and ensure timely alerts for a rapid response team

Ag. Head, Management and Administration Division

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
08.2017 - 12.2019
  • Operational and Financial Management: Overseeing finance, procurement, HR, facility management, and administration for a large organization with a substantial budget and staff.
  • Strategic Planning and Implementation: Designing and implementing operational and programmatic approaches for public health initiatives across 55 African Union member states, and leading budget preparation and defense.
  • Problem Solving and Team Development: Identifying operational issues, providing solutions, and mentoring staff to enhance performance

Consultant Epidemiologist

Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
01.2016 - 12.2018
  • Institutional Development and System Establishment: Establishing Africa CDC as a continental public health institution, including setting up early warning systems and developing operational policies and guidelines.
  • Event-Based Surveillance and Data Management: Applying epidemiological knowledge to collect, analyze, and manage event-based surveillance data, developing standard operating procedures, and maintaining tracking tools.
  • Information Dissemination and Network Building: Developing and disseminating weekly bulletins to key stakeholders, and establishing and maintaining linkages with Ministries of Health and a network of public health organizations for information gathering and rapid response coordination.

Senior Epidemiologist

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Dar es salaam, Tanzania
09.2015 - 01.2016
  • Implementation of Public Health Frameworks: Leading the implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR) and Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) core functions and action plans.
  • Outbreak Response and Capacity Building: Providing outbreak response support at the sub-national level and building technical capacities for early outbreak detection.
  • Emergency Operations Center Development: Leading the National Emergency Operations Centre's establishment.

District Medical Officer

President's Office, Rural Govt & Local Authority
Mvomero, Morogoro, Tanzania
12.2013 - 08.2015
  • Comprehensive Health Oversight: Providing oversight to all curative and preventive health activities, interventional programs, and innovations within the district.
  • Preventive Program Management: Overseeing district preventive programs, including immunization, environmental protection, family planning, food safety, and epidemic/outbreak prevention.
  • Healthcare Service Quality Assurance: Ensuring quality healthcare service delivery across all public and private health facilities, including medicine and commodity supply, and managing programmatic services like HIV, TB, and Malaria.
  • Healthcare Workforce Supervision: Supervising approximately 750 healthcare workers across various programs, health facilities, and community initiatives.

Medical Response Coordinator

African Union - ASEOWA Mission
Monrovia, Liberia
10.2014 - 04.2015
  • Medical Response Coordination: Coordinating the overall medical (public, epidemiological, and clinical) response for the ASEOWA mission across three affected countries.
  • Strategic Planning and Implementation: Leading the design and implementation of the mission's medical response support strategy.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building: Negotiating with ministries of health for deployment and providing capacity building to deployed teams and experts.

Medical Doctor

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Muheza, Tanga, Tanzania
09.2008 - 11.2013
  • Surgical and Clinical Care: Providing direct surgical and clinical care, including attending to patients, performing surgeries and procedures, and managing both outpatient and inpatient cases.
  • Rural Outreach and Specialized Services: Delivering outreach services in rural areas, focusing on family planning surgeries, orthopedic procedures, and other specialized interventions.
  • Training and Education: Serving as a national trainer for family planning methods and providing clinical training to medical students, nurses, and international interns.
  • Quality Assurance and Control: Leading healthcare quality control and quality assurance initiatives within the hospital setting.

Education

Msc. Applied Epidemiology - Applied Epidemiology

Muhimbili University of Allied Health Sciences
Dar es salaam, Tanzania
September 2013

Doctor of Medicine - Medicine

Muhimbili University of Allied Health Science
Dar es salaam, Tanzania
August 2008

Global Health Leadership Fellow - Global Health Leadership

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
01-2021

Skills

Strategic Leadership and Management

Resource Mobilisation and Strategic Negotiations

Global health and modern geopolitical navigation

Modern management and digital transformation

Strategic communication and influencing

Mentorship and Coaching

Quality Management System Design and Implementation

Project Management and Productivity

Result-Based Management (RBM) system design and implementation

Organisational Decision Quality

Institutional Development and System Engineering
Public Health Emergency Management
Data analytics and strategic foresight

Creative, design, strategic and systemic thinking

Certification

  • Leading Transformation: Managing Organizational Change - Macquarie University
  • Storytelling and influencing: Communicate with impact - Macquarie University
  • DAT205x: Data Analysis using Excel - Microsoft
  • Data analysis and visualization - Microsoft
  • Geographical Information System (GIS) for Monitoring of HIV/AIDS programs - Global health eLearning
  • Monitoring and Evaluation Fundamentals - Global Health eLearning
  • Economic Evaluation Basics - Global health eLearnings
  • Data Quality - Global health elearnings
  • Human Resource for Health (HRH) basics - Global health eLearnings
  • Mortality surveillance methods and strategies
  • Demographic and Health Surveys: Data use
  • Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health - University of North Carolina

Languages

English
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
Swahili
Proficient
C2
French
Elementary
A2

Hobbies and interests

  • Intellectual conversations with groups of intellectualsals
  • Music and Piano
  • Mentoring and coaching young professionals
  • Reading books and articles in a vast range of topics for improved general knowledge of the world
  • Watching professional documentaries

Referees

1. Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

    CEO and President

    Village Reach

    Seattle, Washington 98134, USA

    Email: laktarr@outlook.com

    Mobile: +254722788085

2. Dr. Janneth Mghamba

    Health Advisor

   Commonwealth Secretariat

   London, England, United Kingdom

   email: j.mghamba@commonwealth.int

   Mobile: +255754371024

Personal Details

  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Tanzanian
  • Age: 44 Years
  • Marital Status: Married

Timeline

Head - Planning, Reporting and Accountability

Africa CDC
03.2024 - Current

Head of Division, Management and Administration

Africa CDC
06.2022 - 03.2024

Principal RCC Coordinator

Africa CDC
01.2021 - Current

Ag. Head, Surveillance and Disease Intelligence

Africa CDC
01.2020 - 12.2020

Principal Epidemiologist

Africa CDC
01.2019 - 12.2020

Ag. Head, Management and Administration Division

Africa CDC
08.2017 - 12.2019

Consultant Epidemiologist

Africa CDC
01.2016 - 12.2018

Senior Epidemiologist

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
09.2015 - 01.2016

Medical Response Coordinator

African Union - ASEOWA Mission
10.2014 - 04.2015

District Medical Officer

President's Office, Rural Govt & Local Authority
12.2013 - 08.2015

Medical Doctor

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
09.2008 - 11.2013

Msc. Applied Epidemiology - Applied Epidemiology

Muhimbili University of Allied Health Sciences

Doctor of Medicine - Medicine

Muhimbili University of Allied Health Science

Global Health Leadership Fellow - Global Health Leadership

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr Justin Mtefu Maeda MD, MSc