Dr. Ahmed Ogwell, a dynamic chief in international well being, will be a part of VillageReach as our incoming CEO in Might, 2025. He’ll deliver his huge experience, advocating for and implementing systemic well being reforms throughout Africa. Dr. Ogwell’s management is marked by his dedication to enhancing well being outcomes by means of modern methods and collaborative efforts with governments, non-public sector and companions.
Most not too long ago, Dr. Ogwell served because the Vice President of International Well being Technique on the United Nations Basis, managing a major portfolio aligned with the UN’s key initiatives, together with international well being coverage, advocacy, convening, thought management and grant-making.
With practically 30 years of expertise, Dr. Ogwell has held distinguished roles on the Africa Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (Africa CDC), the place he drove the imaginative and prescient of Africa’s New Public Well being Order and managed the continent’s COVID-19 response . He has additionally made an impression whereas on the World Well being Group in Geneva and the Regional Workplace for Africa, influencing local-level challenges utilizing international data and in Kenya’s Ministry of Well being, overseeing well being diplomacy and non-communicable illnesses (NCDs).
A well-respected public well being skilled, Dr. Ogwell’s experience consists of well being emergencies, prevention and management of NCDs, well being coverage design and international well being diplomacy. He has led worldwide well being negotiations for coverage change in Africa. A Kenyan nationwide, Dr. Ogwell, based the Workplace for Worldwide Well being Relations and the Division for NCDs on the Ministry of Well being of Kenya. He holds superior levels from the College of Nairobi and the College of Bergen.
Dr. Ogwell shared, “We’re at a vital second the place we should sort out the multifaceted challenges of worldwide well being, from infectious illness outbreaks to funding uncertainties. To do that, we should unite our efforts, innovate options and strengthen well being techniques. VillageReach has been addressing complicated well being care challenges for 25 years. I’m honored to affix VillageReach at this essential time to confront these points and obtain our 2030 targets.”
VillageReach is deeply dedicated to its 2030 Technique, which is now progressing into its second 12 months. The technique focuses on responsive main well being care that features making well being companies extra accessible when they’re wanted, adapting to adjustments in demand and higher absorbing shocks and stresses whereas responding to the wants and preferences of under-reached communities. It goals to scale back inequities in entry to high quality main well being care. Dr. Ogwell shall be pivotal in constructing on the sturdy basis established because the technique’s launch. His experience and relationships shall be important in supporting authorities wants and making certain the success of nationwide plans.
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Sena Kwawu, Board Chair, mentioned, “We’re experiencing unprecedented change ensuing from vital assist disruptions for a lot of nations the place we work. Nobody might have predicted this after we started trying to find the proper chief for VillageReach. With Dr. Ogwell’s deep data of well being techniques in Africa and the sturdy 2030 Technique we’ve in place, the Board is assured in his capability to navigate VillageReach by means of these mercurial instances and proceed making a significant impression.”
Dr. Ogwell will succeed Emily Bancroft, who has served as VillageReach’s CEO since 2017. Bancroft’s management was instrumental within the group’s development and success throughout her tenure, setting the muse for the formidable technique and notably growing entry to high quality well being care from 20 million to 111 million individuals.
VillageReach’s mission to remodel well being care supply to achieve everybody has by no means been extra crucial, particularly with current setbacks within the sector. Underneath Dr. Ogwell’s management, we’re assured in our capability to ship on our mission, obtain our strategic targets and be certain that under-reached communities obtain the well being care they should thrive.
About VillageReach
VillageReach works with governments, the non-public sector, companions and communities to construct responsive main well being care techniques that ship well being services to essentially the most under-reached. As a regionally pushed and globally related group working throughout Africa, VillageReach’s main purpose is to scale back inequities in entry to high quality main well being care in well being techniques reaching 350 million individuals by 2030.
