Folake Olayinka

Folake Olayinka is a physician and member on the WHO's SAGE Working Group on COVID-19 vaccines. Her experience is in routine vaccination, polio eradication, maternal and child health (MCH), HIV, and malaria programmes. Before leading the Global Immunization team on USAID's Maternal Child Survival Programme, aimed at ending preventable maternal and child deaths, she worked in the USAID Health Population and Nutrition office in Nigeria on the MCH portfolio. From 2010 to 2014, she was an inaugural member of WHO Immunization Practice Advisory Committee. based in Geneva. She serves on the WHO African Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group and is a scientific advisor for the African Local Initiative for Vaccinology Expertise, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.[1][2][3][4]

She has been director of Support to National Malaria Programme, a partnership between Nigeria's National Malaria Control Programme and other malaria control agencies, led by Malaria Consortium.[5]

She is a reviewer for the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,[2] and a senior technical immunization officer at the John Snow, Inc Immunization Center.[6]

References
  1. "WHO | SAGE Working Group on Covid-19 vaccines (established June 2020)". WHO. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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  5. Thomas, Chris (17 January 2014). "Beyond mosquito net hand-outs: the fight against malaria in Nigeria". the Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  6. Thacker, Naveen; John, T (2016), "Immunization Against Poliomyelitis", Immunization in Clinical Practice, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., pp. 92–92, ISBN 978-93-85891-94-6, retrieved 17 November 2020


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