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Muyiwa Tegbe

Public Policy Health Policy
Owings Mills,MD

Summary

Experienced public health policy and health financing professional with over 18 years’ experience leading the design, development and implementation of strategic interventions and programs to improve sustainability of health systems the US and sub-Saharan Africa. Muyiwa is a medical doctor possessing strong leadership and interpersonal skills, who has served as an advisor and thought partner to policy makers and decision-makers at the country and global level in the design and implementation of innovative approaches to improve financial risk protection for at-risk populations, increase financing for country health systems, and optimize health outcomes. Over the years, Muyiwa has also led multiple evidence generation activities which include health policy analyses and assessments, unmet needs assessments, impact of access and equity policies, and business feasibility and profitability assessments for investor groups.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Deputy Director (Senior Director)

PATH
01.2021 - Current
  • Leads strategic technical engagement with PATH’s country and project offices, supporting ministries of health and country leaders in over 22 Countries to design and implement innovative interventions to expand access to strengthen primary health care systems and services
    Key Contributions –
  • Program design, strategy, innovation, and delivery
    Serves on PHC Program core management team leading build out of cross-program PHC competencies - digitalization of PHC systems, measurement, and data use for PHC strengthening, innovative service delivery models (including self-care and private sector engagement), policy and financing, and/or quality improvement
  • Leads PATH’s Financing and Innovative Financial Services Practice working with country policy leaders to implement financial risk protection, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for vulnerable populations, increase resource mobilization for health
  • Leads thought leadership in primary health care systems design and PHC systems financing
  • Leads PATH’s Health financing practice and implements strategy to build health financing capacity internally and externally and furthering Health financing though leadership
  • Leads strategic business capture opportunities to expand PATH’s programs across multiple geographies, provides cross-cutting technical expertise in financing and other targeted areas to support alignment across PHC technical teams
  • Leads build-out of PATH’s Health Financing practice through articulation of PATH’s HF capabilities and communicating these capabilities to internal and external audiences
  • Led the design, incubation and served as Project Director of an innovative Primary Health Care Policy and Financing Technical Assistance Hub providing demand-driven technical assistance to Ministries of Health in Uganda, Mozambique, and Tanzania
  • Evaluated program effectiveness using data-driven approaches, making adjustments as needed to optimize results
  • Fostered positive work environment by promoting collaboration, transparency, and open communication among team members
  • Oversaw project management efforts, ensuring timely completion of projects within allocated budgets and scope
  • Spearheaded initiatives aimed at improving employee satisfaction, engagement, and retention rates
  • Developed strategic plans to achieve organizational goals, ensuring alignment with company's mission and vision
  • Drove innovation in service delivery models by researching industry best practices and incorporating new ideas into organization's approach

Led team of over 100 professionals in special projects and daily operations

Program Director

01.2019
  • Managed a $12m health financing project portfolio providing thought partnership, technical assistance, and the delivery of health financing capacity building programs to federal and sub-national governments in Nigeria
  • Managed strategic relationships with the program funders, key federal and sub-national government partners, and other bilateral and multilateral donors and partners supporting Nigeria’s healthcare reforms
  • Led a team of technical advisors providing technical assistance and thought partnership to 3 federal government institutions to enhance the sustainability of health financing mechanisms for primary healthcare in Nigeria
  • Led the project operationalization, including overseeing the development of work plans, the production of high-quality analytical and technical deliverables on time and budget, and hiring of new staff as needed
  • Led business development and new project conceptualization to grow R4D’s program portfolio in Nigeria.

Senior Technical Advisor

ThinkWell, LLC
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Led a project portfolio in Africa and Southeast Asia designing health system strategies and implementing innovative interventions to increase financial risk protection, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for vulnerable populations, increase resource mobilization for health, and improve health system performance and outcomes
  • Key Contributions - Project design, strategy, and delivery
  • Led a $1.6m technical assistance program under USAID-funded project to 8 states in Nigeria that provides institutional strengthening support and capacity building for resource planning and mobilization
  • Led a $400k activity funded by USAID generating evidence to support design, and implementation of financial protection interventions/schemes to improve maternal and child health outcomes among urban poor in select Myanmar Townships
  • Led a $1.2m technical assistance delivery mechanism providing senior advisory support to the Liberia Ministry of Health on the design and implementation of health financing reforms policies and interventions to increase financial protection for vulnerable populations in Liberia
  • Provided technical leadership, project oversight, and quality assurance for deliverables
  • Managed the development, implementation, and monitoring of program work plans, project budgets, across the portfolio of projects in collaboration with operations and finance teams
  • Key Contributions - Business development
  • Successfully led a business capture opportunity the brought in $1.2m in new revenue for the organization
  • Led the technical design and business capture strategy of new opportunities in select geographic markets and development impact areas in sub-Saharan Africa and SE Asia
  • Led and managed client/partner relationships
  • Results for Development
  • Enhanced system performance by conducting comprehensive technical analyses and providing strategic recommendations
  • Managed multiple high-priority projects simultaneously while consistently meeting client expectations and deadlines

Principal Partner

Park Harmon Advisory
01.2017 - Current
  • Led client engagement and relationship management with variety of public and private sector client
  • Conducted portfolio assessment of client’s technical assistance programs to identify opportunities for strengthening partnerships with in-country partners
  • Led program, financial management, and disbursement design for $150 million World Bank loan facility to Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency obtained to implement new immunization coverage strengthening strategies and improve vaccines supply chain infrastructure
  • Led profitability analysis, operational feasibility, and market entry analysis to determine return on investment and project sustainability for hospital project in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Mentored junior partners, fostering professional growth and development within the team
  • Negotiated favorable contracts on behalf of clients, securing advantageous terms that supported their objectives
  • Strengthened relationships with key stakeholders through effective communication and collaboration
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop integrated strategies for addressing client challenges comprehensively

Senior Engagement Manager

Solina Group, LLC
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Lead consultant on a multi-million-dollar routine immunization strengthening project in Northern Nigeria which improved vaccine storage and distribution infrastructure, vaccine availability, and immunization outcomes
  • Led provision of advisory services to executive leadership and line managers of state primary healthcare development agencies
  • Led implementation of financial accountability model that resulted in 50% improvement in accuracy of fund disbursement for statewide immunization programs
  • Led business development activities making bid/no-bid decisions and proposal writing.

Research Associate/Physician Researcher

IMPAQ International
Columbia, MD
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Led design and analysis of clinical quality measurement studies, program and interventions impact evaluation, and patient utilization modeling
  • Led design of evaluation frameworks to identify health plans offering with sub-optimal drug coverage for high-cost medical conditions on the Affordable Care Health Insurance Exchange. This led to the development of corrective strategies to ensure improved clinical appropriateness of health plan formularies
  • Led development of patient utilization models to estimate aggregate out-of-pocket mediation costs for health plan enrollees with high-cost medical conditions on the health insurance exchange
  • This helped to identify health plans on with cost structures that resulted in high out-of-pocket costs for enrollees
  • Led an evaluation of the impact of practice transformation interventions on quality of care, cost of care, and access to care for commercial and Medicaid enrollees in the Maryland PCMH program
  • Led the first-ever evaluation of the impact of practice transformation on healthcare disparities within commercial and Medicaid populations
  • Led the evaluation of the incidence of surgical site infections at ambulatory surgical centers under the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality led Healthcare-Associated Infections National Action Plan

Consultant

Precision Advisors
Gladstone, NJ
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Conducted evidence generation research, assessments, and analysis in quality-of-care access and policy impact analyses for life sciences and managed care clients
  • Led evidence generation research to support major pharmaceutical firms preliminary assessments of value-based oncology reimbursement models
  • Conducted a study to identify provider and system factors that predispose to development of treatment-resistant depression
  • Designed predictive models to identify patients at risk of developing resistant depression.

Public Health Analyst

Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA
Rockville, MD
01.2008 - 01.2013
  • Managed multiple work streams integral to the administration of federal safety-net health programs as well as the development of innovative interventions that expanded access to healthcare for vulnerable populations and improved outcomes
  • Key Contributions
  • Led research and assessments that supported analyses on a wide range of healthcare access policies including primary care provider training and recruitment policies, HIV/AIDS policies, FQHC quality improvement policies, among others
  • Led an impact assessment of the agency’s funded programs on American Indian and Alaskan Native populations
  • Findings led to an increased focus on improving the participation of AI/AN organizations in HRSA grant opportunities
  • Conducted requirement analyses for a large healthcare practitioner databank to improve professional association reporting compliance, enhancement of data capture, and analytic capabilities to enhance research into healthcare quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

Consultant

American Public Health Association
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Working Group on Community Based Primary Health Care Grant
  • Research support staff on a multi-country systematic review of the effectiveness of child health interventions on child survival and sustainability assessment
  • Conducted literature reviews to source publications appropriate for the study using pre-defined criteria
  • Used pro-formas to identify salient program attributes, and sustainability factors that are important for successful child health community-based primary health care interventions.

Medical Doctor

Jos University Teaching Hospital
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Provided in-patient, emergency, and ambulatory medical care to patients across 4 clinical disciplines managing infectious and chronic diseases, coordinating patient care, and contributing to clinical decision-making.

Health Care Program

Global
  • Leads strategic technical engagement with PATH’s country and project offices, supporting ministries of health and country leaders in over 22 Countries to design and implement innovative interventions to expand access to strengthen primary health care systems and services
  • Key Contributions – Program design, strategy, innovation, and delivery
  • Serves on PHC Program core management team leading build out of cross-program PHC competencies - digitalization of PHC systems, measurement, and data use for PHC strengthening, innovative service delivery models (including self-care and private sector engagement), policy and financing, and/or quality improvement
  • Leads PATH’s Financing and Innovative Financial Services Practice working with country policy leaders to implement financial risk protection, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for vulnerable populations, increase resource mobilization for health
  • Leads thought leadership in primary health care systems design and PHC systems financing
  • Leads PATH’s Health financing practice and implements strategy to build health financing capacity internally and externally and furthering Health financing though leadership
  • Leads strategic business capture opportunities to expand PATH’s programs across multiple geographies, provides cross-cutting technical expertise in financing and other targeted areas to support alignment across PHC technical teams
  • Leads build-out of PATH’s Health Financing practice through articulation of PATH’s HF capabilities and communicating these capabilities to internal and external audiences
  • Led the design, incubation and served as Project Director of an innovative Primary Health Care Policy and Financing Technical Assistance Hub providing demand-driven technical assistance to Ministries of Health in Uganda, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Education

Master’s - Public Health

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Certificate in Health Finance and Management - undefined

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Doctor of Medicine (MB.Ch. B) - undefined

Obafemi Awolowo University, College of Health Sciences

MPH - Comparative Health Systems and Policies

Skills

Interpersonal Communication

Accomplishments

  • Developed and initiated strategies to reduce the length of stay, which reduced average HIV/AIDS readmission length of stay by 10%
  • Developed a severity stratification framework to reduce hospital length of stay among HIV/AIDS patients
  • Developed strategies to work with patients and caregivers to prevent disease process re-occurrence and re-hospitalization

Timeline

Deputy Director (Senior Director)

PATH
01.2021 - Current

Program Director

01.2019

Senior Technical Advisor

ThinkWell, LLC
01.2019 - 01.2021

Principal Partner

Park Harmon Advisory
01.2017 - Current

Senior Engagement Manager

Solina Group, LLC
01.2016 - 01.2017

Consultant

Precision Advisors
01.2014 - 01.2015

Research Associate/Physician Researcher

IMPAQ International
01.2013 - 01.2015

Public Health Analyst

Health Resources and Services Administration, HRSA
01.2008 - 01.2013

Consultant

American Public Health Association
01.2007 - 01.2010

Medical Doctor

Jos University Teaching Hospital
01.2006 - 01.2007

Health Care Program

Global

Master’s - Public Health

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Certificate in Health Finance and Management - undefined

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Doctor of Medicine (MB.Ch. B) - undefined

Obafemi Awolowo University, College of Health Sciences

MPH - Comparative Health Systems and Policies

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