Dr. Ebere Okereke, MD - Global Health Security, Preparedness And Health Systems Strengthening

Dr. Ebere Okereke, MD is a highly respected public health physician, specializing in global health security and health system strengthening, who has dedicated her career and won awards for her work promoting women and under-represented groups in public health leadership.

Dr. Okereke currently serves as a Senior Adviser in Health at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change ( https://www.institute.global/experts/ebere-okereke ), honorary senior public health adviser at Africa CDC, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and is the incoming CEO of Africa Public Health Foundation ( https://aphf.africa/ ).

Dr. Okereke is currently on a career break from Public Health England (now the UK Health Security Agency) where she led the UK-aid funded International Health Regulations strengthening project; a technical assistance project aimed at sustainably strengthening public health systems.

Dr. Okereke is an experienced trainer, coach and mentor and was an honorary senior lecturer at the Leeds and Hull-York medical schools.

Dr. Okereke is a graduate of the University of Nigeria College of Medicine and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. Her journey in global health started at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) where she was first introduced to the field of communicable diseases and where she completed post-graduate work in International Health Consultancy.

After leaving LSTM for the first time, Dr. Okereke joined the Public Health Specialty Training Program, where she trained across Northern England and became a consultant in communicable disease control. Her interests then took her to emergency preparedness, emerging and re-emerging infections, and zoonoses, ultimately leading her to Kenya where she worked for the International Rescue Committee.