Axios in one word?
Impactful

Why are you at Axios?
Through implementing a variety of public health models, I have been able to make a contribution towards improving the lives of people living with life-threatening diseases in developing countries. This gives me great motivation and personal satisfaction. 

What are you currently reading?
‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell. It examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success.

Health Systems: Country of the moment and why?
Nigeria because of the strong commitment and hard work of our partners, including the Government of Nigeria, our donors and our staff to scale-up access to anti-retroviral therapy across the country. This has given us an opportunity to adapt our pilot supply chain management models beyond the state level country-wide and to expedite the development of the capacity of the local people and systems to manage and implement the programs.  

What should be our goal in International Health over the next 10 years?
To use the existing local systems and people to build sustainable public health programs.