Biography
Dr. Hananiya Dauda Samuel is a Public Health expert with over 10 years’ progressive experience in planning, implementing and management of public health programs across different USAID, Global Fund and Government funded projects in Nigeria. He has a robust technical and programmatic experience in Surveillance and differentiated models of service delivery for Tuberculosis including Drug Resistant TB, TB/HIV, TB/COVID-19.
He currently works for WHO as the National Professional Officer TB Epidemiologist in Nigeria.
Key Impacts
Overcoming barriers to childhood TB detection: Scaling up childhood TB case detection through integrated facility and community-based interventions in Niger State, Nigeria
Integrated facility and community-based interventions, including collaboration with the nutrition programme, scale-up of stool testing, and nationwide testing initiatives, significantly improved childhood TB detection in Niger State. This approach offers a scalable and context-appropriate model for similar high-burden, low-resource settings.
Source: Conference 2024