To develop the next generation of healthcare leaders in Africa who excel in governance and the provision of quality services
To deliver context-specific and innovative capacity development programmes that address identified skill gaps across the health system
As an institution, we are committed to empowering current and future generations of healthcare professionals with the requisite skills, tools, and capabilities to address context-specific health system challenges.
Ultimately, our aim is to develop a cohort of healthcare leaders in both the public and private sector who will positively transform their respective organizations and communities to improve health outcomes and wellbeing.
is the Chief Executive of the Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation, and Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was previously the Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance of Nigeria and also served as a Senior Adviser to two Ministers of Health in Nigeria.
Prior to this, he was an Engagement Manager with the London Office of McKinsey and Company, where he served clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before McKinsey, Dr. Ohiri worked with the World Bank Group in Washington DC, having joined through the Young Professionals’ Programme. His focus was on Social Protection and strengthening health systems in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Dr. Ohiri has written policy papers, peer-reviewed academic publications, co-authored books on health-systems and has served on expert advisory panels for the Institute of Medicine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. He is currently on the Board of the World Health Organization’s Alliance for Health Systems and Policy Research, served as Chair of a working group on Programmatic Sustainability for the Global Fund to Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria, and as Co-Chair for the Business Planning Team of the new Global Financing Facility for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. He is also a 2013 Desmond Tutu Fellow of the African Leadership Institute.
Dr. Ohiri earned a medical degree from the University of Lagos. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree and a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management, both from Harvard University. He was a Healthcare Management Fellow at Harvard and has worked as a primary care physician in various settings.
Muntaqa is Partner at Flint Atlantic Capital, an impact investments firm that aims to transform the healthcare landscape in Africa by leveraging deep insights to make high impact investments that unlock the market potential of the health sector across all stages of the value chain from early stage to growth stage companies.
Muntaqa has over 11 years experience in the healthcare sector, including 5 years as the Chief Executive Officer and founding board member of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria - a platform that mobilizes private sector resources, partnerships and capabilities to improve health outcomes through innovation, market shaping engagements and impact investments.
Prior to this role, Muntaqa was the Senior Technical Advisor to the former Honourable Minister of State for Health in Nigeria, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate. In this position, he was responsible for leading a number of landmark healthcare reform programs. He commenced his career as a healthcare investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the U.K where he focused on the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical sector (Mergers & Acquisitions).
Muntaqa is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, England, where he earned an M.Phil in Bioscience Enterprise. He holds an MBBS degree from Imperial College School of Medicine, London UK and an intercalated BSc degree in Management (with Finance) from the Tanaka Business School, London, UK.
Muntaqa was honoured as a 2016 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and as a 2017 Aspen Spotlight Scholar. He is an Eisenhower Fellow He is also a Chartered Alternatives Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Dr. Orode Doherty is a US Board-Certified Pediatrician and Public Health Physician and Medical Director of Ingress Health Partners. Here she is working on expanding integrated comprehensive primary healthcare employing a continuity of care model incorporating technology and behavior change at community level. She is a co-Founder of the African Children’s Hospitals Foundation, established with the aim of significantly expanding access for sick and injured children in Africa to quality specialty care at designated dedicated Pediatric centers.
She received Pediatric training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where she was an award-winning Pediatric resident and clinician. As pioneer Pediatrician in ICAP, Columbia University, she led teams that established over 100 maternal and newborn care clinics for mothers living with HIV in several states in Nigeria, creating curricula for training health providers and tools for supervision.
Until recently she was Country Director for Africare Nigeria, where she provided thoughtful leadership around enhancing the capacity of women and their families to improving health and livelihoods through behavior change, education and enhanced access to resources and technology.
She holds a Master’s in Public Health (Maternal & Child Health) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Her 27-year professional career has spanned clinical pediatrics, health and hospitals systems strengthening, community development, establishing livelihoods and the promotion of life skills in youth.
She and her husband ‘Funso have three children. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Associate Fellow of the West African Postgraduate Medical College, Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative West Africa, and a member and moderator of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
MD MBA MPH, a 2014 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Yale Associate World Fellow, Co-Founder and CEO at mDoc.
Prior to mDoc, she was Executive Director for the Africa Region at IHI, a leading global health organization focused on healthcare quality improvement, where, through her leadership, IHI dramatically expanded its efforts at building sustainable change in healthcare delivery systems in Africa, the results of which are directly impacting millions of lives in 13 priority countries.
A pediatrician by training, Nneka was previously Vice President of Community Health and Population Health Management at the Connecticut Hospital Association, where she provided leadership to hospitals in the area of population health management, and devised statewide health initiatives to better address community health and reduce costs. At McKinsey & Company, she worked primarily in the area of strategy development for payers and providers, health care IT, and pharmaceutical companies. At The World Bank, she worked on investing in private health care in resource-poor countries and developing the health care strategy for Africa. She has also worked at Merck and Co., Center for Disease Control (CDC), and Society for Family Health (SFH).
Nneka earned a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and her MD and MBA from Yale University and completed her Pediatrics residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
She is a member of the African Leadership Network, and sits on several boards and committees