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Mohamed Diaaeldin Omer

Health Specialist
Nairobi

Summary

Demonstrates a strong command of epidemiological methods, health systems strengthening, and results-based program management in both emergency and development contexts. Dedicated and results-driven Health Specialist with over two decades of experience in public health, particularly on Immunization- Accelerated Disease control, Health Emergency preparedness and response including outbreak response; program development and performance monitoring; and health systems strengthening. Proven track records in supporting UNICEF’s accelerated disease control strategies, leading and guiding reactive and preventive vaccination campaigns, and building national capacities for preparedness and emergency response. Excellent and recognized roles in development, managing, and maintaining strategic partnerships for coordination and ensuring readiness for health emergencies. Technical assistance to countries including excellent experience of humanitarian context. Brings a strong commitment to equity, innovation, and accountability in public health programming. Adept at navigating complex operational environments and translating evidence into action to improve health outcomes for children and vulnerable populations.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Health Specialist (Measles and accelerated disease control)

UNICEF
04.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: UNICEF - Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
  • Lead - Accelerated Disease Control (ADC) initiatives and partnerships in UNICEF ESARO (Measles and Rubella, Yellow Fever, Meningitis, Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus). Responsible for providing strategic and operational technical support on advocacy, coordination, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, resource mobilization, and quality assurance of programmatic and operational interventions including for preventive and reactive vaccination campaigns and outbreaks response.
  • Managing partnerships: representing UNICEF ESARO in global and regional technical working groups and coordination platforms, fostering collaboration and alignment with key stakeholders (Measles & Rubella Partnership, Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics, Defeat Meningitis, Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination, and ESAR Regional Immunization Working Group).
  • As ESARO focal person for Africa CDC-UNICEF partnership, facilitating and supporting the development of Africa CDC Continental Immunization Strategy including being a member of the continental Immunization strategy’ steering committee and facilitating regional consultative meetings.
  • Emergency Preparedness and Response: provide technical support and guide on health emergency preparedness and response activities including periodic implementation of risk assessment, capacity building and training of health emergency specialists and officers at COs, planning, and surge capacity and hands-on for countries, review and quality assurance of emergency components of the annual COs plans, and resource mobilization. The support includes Deployment to countries to support on public health emergencies and diseases outbreaks responses is a key responsibility.
  • Monitoring of National Immunization Program performance: UNICEF's ESARO focal point for the WHO-UNICEF Immunization Joint Reporting Format (JRF)- The main source for national immunization performance monitoring. Member of the global JRF TWG. Facilitate the annual training of JRF end-users in Africa. Regional reviewer of the 2nd-level reviews of the annual data sets of all 21 ESAR countries. Contribute to developing and reviewing the annual regional WUENIC snapshots and other regional advocacy and media materials.
  • Knowledge Management: Within the immunization unit of ESARO, lead and facilitate evidence generation, documentation, and knowledge sharing with focus on immunization and health emergency preparedness and response.
  • UNICEF - Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
  • Maintained and strengthened professional and strong partnerships related to accelerated disease control across different coordination and technical forums including M&RP, EYE, Defeat meningitis, Immunization Regional Working Group for Easten and Southern Africa.
  • Established UNICEF ESAR JRF network across 21 countries. Enhanced UNICEF ESAR engagement, contribution, influence, and visibility of across JRF platforms. This has led to ensuring real-time, full access to, and utilization of eJRF datasets. Recognized expert member of the global eJRF TWG. Timely revision and submission of 100% of annual countries dataset for the years 2022-2024.
  • Led the implementation and documentation of 10 immunization equity assessments and documentation in 10 ESAR countries.
  • Co-led the development of UNICEF ESAR IMMUNIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION: Operationalizing the UNICEF Immunization Roadmap to 2030 ESAR.
  • Provided remote and onsite surge support to multiple ESAR countries on follow-up, reactive, catch-up vaccination campaigns, and health emergency response (applications’ development, planning, implementation monitoring, risk assessments, resource mobilization, coordination, and advocacy).
  • Co-lead the development of UNICEF ESARO Health Emergency Risk Assessment Tool.
  • Co-les Cholera Hotspot Mapping in Ethiopia and Somalia.

Health Specialist- Health Emergency and Polio Lead

UNICEF
07.2014 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Ethiopia Country Office
  • Led the “Health Emergency and Polio” team in the country office and provided strategic leadership for this component of health section program. This included technical support to planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of national and sub-national measles and polio vaccination campaigns (preventive and outbreak response), refugees health interventions, emergency preparedness and response planning and capacity building, resource mobilization and management, advocacy and resilience building, and partnership management.
  • Strengthened and maintained professional partnerships - collaboration and coordination on health emergencies plans and immunization interventions ( e.g. collaboration on disease surveillance and data with WHO, Joint Action plans for refugees with UNHCR, Vaccination of the refuges and children on the move with IOM, and Essential health supplies and commodities distribution with NGOs). Represented UNICEF in the national health cluster and inter-agency coordination platforms to ensure effective coordination, joint assessments and planning, implementation and monitoring.
  • Mobilized and managed financial, technical resources, and supplies for mass immunization campaigns (Polio and measles) and essential health services provision for refugees, IDPs and hard-to-reach communities mainly in Afar and Somali regional states.
  • Provided technical support and guidance to national authorities and field offices on macro and microplanning, implementation, and monitoring of health emergencies and Polio activities.
  • Facilitated capacity building activities including training of UNICEF health and emergency specialists and relevant government staff on health emergencies and disease outbreak planning and response. Provided hands-on and performance monitoring through regular and ad-hoc field missions.
  • Ensured essential health services are available and accessible for vulnerable children and communities in conflict and emergency-affected areas, displaced polulation, and hard-to-reach communities. This includes ensuring functional Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams, a strategy to deliver integrated essential health services.
  • Ethiopia Country Office
  • Successfully led UNICEF to contribute to control cVDPV Polio outbreak in Ethiopia through robust outbreak response that included multiple rounds of national and subnational vaccination campaigns. The support extended to the implementation of three national measles follow-up vaccination campaign, two Yellow Fever outbreak responses, and measles presumptive and reactive campaigns.
  • Maintained strong and multiple partnerships on health emergencies and Polio particularly with the government authorities at federal and regional levels which facilitated improved coordination and enhancement of health services planning and delivery.
  • Developed and implemented multiple health emergency contingency and response plans, and contributed to the development of Ethiopia annual humanitarian plans, joint situational and risk assessments, and resource mobilization.
  • Maintained and expanded “Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams”, a strategy to deliver integrated essential health services for vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities, are functional and delivering high quality services from 30 teams to 49 teams mainly in Somali and Afar regions.
  • Enhanced community engagement strategies, through establishing and strengthening the Polio Communication Network in Somali region, resulting in Polio outbreak control through implementation of successful outbreak response vaccination campaigns, increased demand for immunization and wider health services.

Health and Nutrition Specialist

UNICEF
02.2012 - 06.2014
  • Company Overview: Ethiopia – Dollo Ado Sub-Office
  • Led Health and Nutrition Team at the field office, coordinated health and nutrition interventions in Dollo Ado refugees’ camps and host communities in partnership with UNHCR, Agency for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (ARRA) and other agencies, ensuring integration of health and nutrition services into emergency health responses with strong focus on Immunization.
  • Acting as head of the UNICEF field office, led and overseeing all management functions and UNICEF programmatic performance.
  • Led the establishment and operationalization of immunization programs within Dollo Ado refugee’ camps, including planning and coordination of vaccines and commodities delivery and supplementary Immunization activities including mass vaccination campaigns.
  • Designed, implemented, and monitored health and nutrition projects, with emphasis on immunization coverage, nutrition assessments, and quality assurance, and enhanced integrated Health and Nutrition planning, monitoring and service delivery programming.
  • Conducted field visits and program reviews to monitor health and immunization activities and identify areas for improvement. And oversaw supply chain coordination for vaccines and essential commodities, ensuring timely delivery and accountability.
  • Ensured adherence to operational guidance on nutrition and particularly infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in emergencies, supervising IYCF projects within the refugee program, linking nutrition and immunization efforts to improve child health outcomes. Coordinated and technically supervised comprehensive annual nutrition surveys across refugee camps.
  • Ethiopia – Dollo Ado Sub-Office
  • Led the establishment of a comprehensive immunization program across Dollo Ado refugee camps. Successfully set up a fully functional immunization service, including operational cold chain systems ensuring vaccine potency and safety, Sustainable supply mechanisms for vaccines and essential immunization commodities; a structured coordination and management framework for service delivery; recruitment and training of health personnel to deliver immunization services within refugee settings.
  • This initiative significantly improved access to routine and campaign-based immunization for refugee populations, contributing to disease prevention and public health resilience in a complex humanitarian context.
  • Co-led the coordination and supervision of three comprehensive nutrition surveys in all Dollo Ado refugee’s camp. This includes planning, training, supervision, data analysis, report development.
  • Successfully managed Dollo Ado field office. and led the office closure process ensuring smooth transition and continuity of health, nutrition, education, child protection, and WASH services to the refugees.

Health Specialist

UNICEF
11.2007 - 02.2012
  • Company Overview: Sudan
  • Head of the health section, South Darfur field office.
  • Analyze program implementation reports and evaluate against established program recommendations and plans of action.
  • Design, prepare, implement, monitor and evaluates programs and projects.
  • Provide technical advices and assistance to government officials and other partners in the program’ cycle process.
  • Assist government authorities and other UN/ NGO partners in capacity building including planning and organizing training programs, identifying training needs, program sustainability, as well as promotion and advocacy dialogue.
  • Manage all financial and operational aspects and activities of the programs and projects.
  • Lead and coordinate the primary health care task force in South Darfur State.
  • Regular OIC for HIV/AIDS section, UNICEF- South Darfur.
  • Sudan

Senior Reproductive Health and GBV

UNFPA
11.2006 - 11.2007
  • Company Overview: Sudan Field Office
  • Coordinate the RH and GBV activities of all partners including UN/NGOs in West Darfur State.
  • Support planning, monitoring, and evaluations of RH interventions.
  • Provide technical support and assistance to the state government as required including the design of assessment of EmOC services and overall RH activities.
  • Support gap identification and capacity building of the health staff as well as community involvement.
  • Ensure provision and distribution of RH kits and other supplies and monitor utilization.
  • Develop and regularly update RH mapping including categorization of services.
  • Review reports and design evidence-informed planning and interventions.
  • Sudan Field Office

Deputy Director General and RH coordinator

Ministry of Health
06.2004 - 11.2006
  • Company Overview: West Darfur State, Sudan
  • Led the annual planning processes of the programs and operations at the level of the state ministry of health.
  • Supervise and monitor technical and administrative activities of directorates, projects, and units of the state ministry of health.
  • Coordination of the training activities.
  • Senior Coordinator for the UN agencies and NGOs at Ministry of Health: Oversaw cooperation agreements and performance of health partners in the state.
  • Led inter-agency health emergency coordination meetings and health cluster meetings during Darfur crisis.
  • Acting Director General May-August 2006.
  • Management of Reproductive Health Directorate.
  • Manage Ministry of health communication and partners relationship with UN, NGOs, and other government ministries and sectors.
  • West Darfur State, Sudan

Health System Unit lead, Reproductive Health Directorate

Federal Ministry of Health
01.2004 - 06.2004
  • Company Overview: Sudan
  • Led and support the planning and implementation of the national situation analysis and need assessment for Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) in Sudan including design of the basic data collection tools and training of the RH coordinators.
  • Provided overall supervision and monitoring RH activities in southern states of Sudan.
  • Distribute and monitor the RH supplies and commodities at national level as well as at states level.
  • Support strengthening the RH information system including systematic revision and analysis of program performance reports.
  • Sudan

Director, Primary Health Care (PHC)

Ministry of Health
02.2002 - 03.2003
  • Company Overview: West Darfur state, Sudan
  • Established the Primary Health Care directorate at the Ministry of health- West Darfur.
  • Led resource mobilization and allocation for PHC programmatic and operational components.
  • Design the programs structure and manage all administrative and technical aspects of the newly established directorate.
  • Coordination of the primary health care activities including partners’ interventions.
  • Planning, supervision, and monitoring of RH activities.
  • Coordinating reproductive health staff Capacity Building Project in Darfur states.
  • Supervised and monitor the midwifery schools’ training in North, South, and West states of Darfur.
  • Led advocacy and resource mobilization for Planning, implementation, and supervision of the training program on midwifery 'village midwives'.
  • Advocate for better reproductive and maternal health support in Darfur.
  • Supervise and monitor the midwifery school training in North, South, and West states of Darfur.
  • Led the PHC and RH coordinators in planning, implementing, and monitoring RH activities.
  • Provided technical support to Safe Motherhood activities in Darfur.
  • Managed the collection and analysis of RH information.
  • Oversaw and Administrative and financial management.
  • West Darfur state, Sudan
  • Establishment of the Primary Health Care Directorate at the state ministry of Health, and establishment of anew Midwifery school ( Zalingi Midwifery School).
  • Graduation of 5 patches of Midwives (around 250 midwives) from 5 Midwifery schools in Darfur.
  • Organized an exchange visit between Geneina Hospital and Abechi Hospital in Chad to exchange experience in hospital management and obstetric and gynecology medical and surgical interventions.

Medical Director

Geneina General hospital
10.2001 - 02.2002
  • Company Overview: West Darfur- Sudan
  • Management aspects of the hospital (Staff, Finance, and Environment). (The hospital is the first state hospital).
  • Financial and administrative affairs.
  • Coordination of the health center referral.
  • Training and capacity building planning and implementation.
  • Led the epidemiological and behavioral survey in West Darfur state (part of the development of Sudan Strategic Planning Process for Sudan National HIV/AIDS.
  • Supervisor of all the staff of the hospital (around 160 persons including doctors, nurses, admin. staff,..etc).
  • West Darfur- Sudan

Medical Officer

State Ministry of Health
03.2001 - 10.2001
  • Company Overview: West Darfur, Sudan
  • Outpatient’s medical clinic duties.
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology unit of Geneina Hospital.
  • West Darfur, Sudan

House Officer/Medical Internship

Federal Ministry of Health
10.1999 - 02.2001
  • Company Overview: Sudan
  • Internship Management of the different illnesses and conditions under the supervision of the specialists and responsible professionals (Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Orthopedics).
  • Sudan

Education

Professional Medical Doctorate - Community Medicine

Sudan Medical Specialization Board
07.2006

Master of Public Health - Public Health

American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
08.2005

Diploma of public health - undefined

University of Gezira
12.2003

Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery - undefined

University of Kordofan
05.1999

Skills

Communication skills

Community Services

  • Volunteer, Project coordinator for Zalingie project in Darfur, Cactus Onlus (Italian NGO), 2006-01-01 to 2008-01-01
  • Member, UNISCO Club, American University of Beirut, 2004-01-01 to 2005-01-01
  • Member, Mohamad Bahreddin Committee for Orphan Welfares, West Darfur
  • President, El-Itihad Social and Sport Club, Geneina –West Darfur, 2002-01-01 to 2004-01-01
  • Founder member, Poetry forum, Kordofan University
  • Lecturer, Public health lecturer for 3rd grade university students, Nyala UNIVERSITY, Sudan, 2009-01-01
  • Field Supervisor, Field Supervisor for graduate student (Master degree), Malaysia University, 2009-03-01 to 2009-12-01

Consultations

  • Save the Children- USA
  • MEDAIR
  • COSVE

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 30th of October, 1973
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Sudanese
  • Marital Status: Married

Publications

  • UNICEF ESAR- IMMUNIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION: Operationalizing the UNICEF Immunization Roadmap to 2030, Internal UNICEF document, 2024-01-01
  • Progress and barriers towards maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination in the remaining 12 countries: a systematic review, The Lancet Global Health, 9, 11, 2021-11-01
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and its Determinants among Adult Population in Somali Region of Ethiopia, Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases, 17-27, 10.9734/jammr/2022/v34i731323, 2022-04-05
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and its Determinants among Health Care Workers in Somali Region of Ethiopia, Asian Journal of Research in Infectious Diseases, 1-10, 10.9734/ajrid/2022/v9i330268, 2022-03-25
  • COVID-19 provides an opportunity to build a resilient and equitable immunization delivery system, PAMJ, 41, 2, 5, 2022-03-29
  • Exploring opportunities to enhance effectiveness of mobile health and nutrition strategy for providing health and nutrition services amongst pastoralists in Somali region, Ethiopia, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2021-04-01
  • The Polio Communication Network Contribution to the Polio Outbreak Response in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, 2013–2015, Global Health Communication, 2, 39–49, 2017-06-01
  • High Psychological Distress among Internally Displaced Women in West Darfur, Sudan, British Journal of Psychiatry, 2007-09-01
  • Unintended pregnancy in Egypt: evidence from the national study on women giving birth in 1999, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 13, 6, 2007-11-01
  • Assessment of Routine Immunization Coverage in Nyala Locality, Reasons behind Incomplete Immunization in South Darfur State, Sudan, Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014-02-25
  • High prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in two communities in South Darfur: implication for interventions, Parasites & Vectors Journal, 2011-02-01
  • Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequalities in Maternal Health, FCI, UNFPA, 2007-01-01

Training

  • Health System Strengthening Course, 2019-05-01 to 2019-11-01, Nossal Institute for Global health- University of Melbourne and UNICEF
  • Results-Based Management; e-course and workshop, 2017-02-01, UNICEF HQ
  • Health Economic and Financing, 2015-11-01 to 2016-04-01, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Building a better response e-learning course, 2016-04-01, Humanitarian Academy at Harvard
  • Programming for Infant and Young child Feeding, E-learning course, 2013-01-01, Cornell University and UNICEF headquarter
  • UNICEF Management Development Program (MDP), 2011-11-01 to 2012-08-01, Open University-UK, Sheppard Moscow, UNICEF
  • Nutrition Surveys: SMART anthropometry and UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS) Training, 2012-07-08 to 2012-07-17, Budapest, Hungary. UNHCR & Centre for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (Atlanta)
  • Emergency preparedness and response, 2011-03-07 to 2011-03-10, UNICEF, Nyala
  • Regional Partnership Workshop on Partnerships, 2010-05-04 to 2010-05-06, Amman, Jordan, UNICEF, MENA Regional Office
  • Managing Project Communication, 2010-01-02, UNICEF, E-learning course
  • Performance Planning and Objective Setting, 2010-01-02, UNICEF E-learning course

Timeline

Health Specialist (Measles and accelerated disease control)

UNICEF
04.2020 - Current

Health Specialist- Health Emergency and Polio Lead

UNICEF
07.2014 - 04.2020

Health and Nutrition Specialist

UNICEF
02.2012 - 06.2014

Health Specialist

UNICEF
11.2007 - 02.2012

Senior Reproductive Health and GBV

UNFPA
11.2006 - 11.2007

Deputy Director General and RH coordinator

Ministry of Health
06.2004 - 11.2006

Health System Unit lead, Reproductive Health Directorate

Federal Ministry of Health
01.2004 - 06.2004

Director, Primary Health Care (PHC)

Ministry of Health
02.2002 - 03.2003

Medical Director

Geneina General hospital
10.2001 - 02.2002

Medical Officer

State Ministry of Health
03.2001 - 10.2001

House Officer/Medical Internship

Federal Ministry of Health
10.1999 - 02.2001

Master of Public Health - Public Health

American University of Beirut

Diploma of public health - undefined

University of Gezira

Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery - undefined

University of Kordofan

Professional Medical Doctorate - Community Medicine

Sudan Medical Specialization Board

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