Dr Ebere Okereke
Associate Fellow, Global Health Programme
Biography
Dr Ebere Okereke is a public health physician specializing in global health security and health system strengthening who has won awards for her work promoting women and under-represented groups in public health leadership.
Ebere is currently employed as a senior technical adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and honorary senior public health adviser to Africa CDC.
She is currently on a career break from Public Health England (now the UK Health Security Agency) where she led the UK-aid funded IHR strengthening project; a technical assistance project aimed at sustainably strengthening public health systems.
Ebere is an experienced trainer, coach and mentor and was an honorary senior lecturer at the Leeds and Hull-York medical schools.
Ebere is a graduate of the University of Nigeria College of Medicine and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
Past experience
| 2021 – present | Senior Technical Adviser, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |
| 2017 – present | Consultant in Global Public Health, Public Health England |
| 2016 | Consultant Epidemiologist in Emerging Infections and Zoonoses, Public Health England |
| 2015-16 | Consultant Global Health Strategist, Public Health England & International Rescue Committee Nairobi, Kenya |
| 2002–15 | Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and Yorkshire & Humber Regional Lead for TB control, Public Health England (formerly Health Protection Agency) |
