{"id":850,"date":"2021-01-05T15:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insidenigeria.org\/?p=850"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:11:54","slug":"dr-hadiza-khamofu-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insidenigeria.org\/index.php\/dr-hadiza-khamofu-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hadiza Khamofu Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Hadiza Khamofu is currently the Acting Country Director for FHI 360 Nigeria overseeing projects in the Nigeria country portfolio in Health, Education, Nutrition, Gender & Gender-Based Violence response, Private Sector Engagement, Humanitarian & crisis response. She doubles as the Deputy Chief of Party for SIDHAS (Strengthening integrated delivery for HIV\/AIDS Services) overseeing the functions of three technical departments: prevention, care & treatment, monitoring & evaluation, and health systems strengthening & lab services. These departments are responsible for developing, implementing, monitoring & evaluating gender-sensitive TB, HIV\/AIDS prevention, care & treatment interventions in Akwa-Ibom and Cross-River states in Nigeria. She was recently elected as one of the UNHAS Steering Committee for the humanitarian coordination platform in the North-East.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Personal information: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a Nigerian, born on the 9th of December. She is married to Mr. Khamofu with four Children and has lived and worked in Nigeria. She has a great social personality and loves to interact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous titles and career:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hadiza Khamofu is a family physician with over twenty years\u2019 clinical and public health experience. Nigeria. She is a member of various national technical working groups and has contributed to the development of policies, strategic plans, guidelines, SOPs, training curriculum\/manuals, and proposals for Nigeria. She has particular interest in RMNCH, TB-HIV, gender, and pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is a co-PI on several studies: the national PReP demonstration study among serodiscordant couples, the gender analysis of the SIDHAS project, Akwa Ibom state AIDS indicator study, and Transition of Care for Adolescent Living with HIV-ACT (Adolescent Coordinated Transition), member technical committee for the National AIDS Indicator Impact Survey (NAIIS) and IBBSS round 4 in Nigeria, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Khamofu superintended over the 2012\/2013 massive scale up towards closing the PMTCT gap in 8 of the 12+1 priority states supported by FHI360 through rapid assessment\/situational analysis, PMTCT operational plan development, training, and activation of close to 3000 new sites for PMTCT services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Khamofu\u2019s areas of interest include tropical disease control and surveillance, RMNCH, TB-HIV, gender, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, and resistance monitoring. Other include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Formal head of clinical services of National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Idu-Abuja for about 8 years.<\/li>
  • Dr. Khamofu<\/strong> was a member of the Institute\u2019s Ethics Committee, principal investigator for phase II clinical trials of NIPRISAN (patented as an anti-sickling agent), designed and monitored phase III clinical trials of NIPRISAN, and contributed to other research projects.<\/li>
  • Formal Chief Physician and Head of Clinical Services, GEDE Foundation, GEDE AIDS and Infectious Diseases Research Institute, Nigeria. Consultant\/Investigator to Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria (HERFON) Sponsored by HERFON\/DFID in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH).<\/li>
  • Formal Senior Medical Services Advisor, USAID\/GHAIN project, Nigeria.<\/li>
  • Lead consultant to Foundation for Women\u2019s Health Research and Development<\/strong>.<\/li>
  • Consultant to National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for development of national HIV policy, strategic framework, and plan 2010-2015 and the Global Fund proposal development., Director Prevention Care and Treatment, USAID\/SIDHAS project, Nigeria.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    She has a master\u2019s degree in Tropical Medicine from the University of Liverpool, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fellowship of the college of physicians, national postgraduate medical college and has written over 4 publications contributing to science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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