Eric Ikoona
ICAP Sierra Leone Technical Director, Eric Ikoona will be responsible for ensuring progress towards targets, meeting project milestones, addressing bottlenecks, supervising project staff, and overseeing M&E activities. Ikoona is a medical epidemiologist and infectious diseases specialist with over ten years of experience leading, designing, delivering, and managing public health programs and operational research. His technical expertise includes strengthening health systems, building capacity, and monitoring and evaluating impact. He also brings vast experience enhancing coordination and collaboration between institutions, government stakeholders, and global partners. As ICAP’s Technical Director in Sierra Leone, Ikoona has spearheaded numerous child-focused projects including state-of-the-art nursing and midwifery education and training, child health and mortality prevention surveillance, infant malaria prevention, improved labor monitoring, infection prevention and control, and support for community-based maternal health services. In 2021, he led a pilot MCH project in the Kroo Bay area of Freetown, funded by Orange (Sierra Leone), working closely with MOHS to pilot a package of community- and health facility-based interventions. Key achievements of that project include reaching all 2000 households in the target area six times in eight months, increasing the percentage of pregnant women in those households attending antenatal care from 53 to 99 percent, and providing multi-disease screening services to 1051 individuals. Important lessons will be applied to the proposed CWP project, notably around leveraging public sector health care providers, policies, strategies, and tools to drive community sensitization, multi-disease screening, and HF linkages.
Biography current as of January 2023