𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐃𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐣𝐢𝐨𝐤𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐮 (𝐁𝐒𝐜, 𝐌𝐁𝐂𝐡𝐁, 𝐌𝐏𝐇, 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰, 𝐅𝐑𝐒𝐏𝐇)
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞
Dr Chijioke Kaduru has spent the last seventeen years in public health programme management, with over ten of those years working in public health in low- and middle-income countries.
He is a public health physician and holds advanced degrees in public health and infectious disease epidemiology.
He has worked over the years in improving child survival, combating infectious diseases, and working towards gender equality, through leading performance management of relevant programmes, supporting policy and systems research, strengthening sub-national capacity for infectious disease control, and implementing communications for development interventions.
He has worked and continues to work as a lead investigator across several large-scale research projects in Africa including randomised controlled trials with Gavi (the vaccine alliance), different implementation research pieces with the Gates Foundation, and observational and interventional studies with UNICEF, Sabin, the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, and many others. He has several publications in peer reviewed journals and maintains faculty affiliations in Nigeria and abroad.
Dr. Kaduru has worked extensively in polio eradication and routine immunisation, helping deliver transformational results in Nigeria and in sub-Saharan Africa. From supporting the deployment of human resources for polio outbreak responses, through mobilising domestic resources for polio eradication and routine immunisation activities, to leading work in planning, implementing, measuring, and learning for immunisation campaigns and routine immunisation, he has worked extensively on the journey to ending polio and other vaccine preventable diseases in Nigeria and on the continent.
Over the years he has also provided technical leadership for State Ministries of Health in Nigeria to attract wins in the performance-based saving one million lives programme for results, helping mobilise millions of dollars in additional resources to support health systems strengthening efforts.
He was instrumental in mobilising nearly $200m for Nigeria’s National Public Health Institute to strengthen emergency preparedness and response to COVID-19 and other outbreak prone diseases. He has played crucial roles in mobilising over $3b for the Nigerian health system, over the last decade.
He has also provided technical leadership for many convenings to drive action for health systems strengthening including state health summits, national family planning conferences, the first national citizen-led convening to review the performance of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund in Nigeria, and several regional health and disease-specific summits.
He has previously worked as a Technical Assistant at the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency in Nigeria, and as a Technical Advisor to the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
He has previously led the expansion of IQVIA’s public health practice in Middle East and Africa, creating new and strong institutional relationships and footprints for one of the World’s Fortune 500 consulting companies.
Dr. Kaduru is currently the Managing Director at Corona Management Systems, an indigenous Nigerian public health research and consulting group which has expanded into Kenya, Cameroon, Lesotho, Congo, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Benin, Liberia, Guinea, and Djibouti and has also established account offices in Europe and in North America.
Dr. Kaduru and his team continue to support health systems across sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen policy implementation, mobilise resources, test business, social, and technological innovations, and undertake research towards building strong and resilient health systems.
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞
Dr. Kaduru hails from the Umuchiekwe kindred of Umuwaoma Obiangwu in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area and is the son of Chief and Lolo Ben Kaduru (ESV).
He is a devout Christian and is happily married with two children. Dr. Kaduru is a well-established philanthropist and the Chairman of the Nkwa Chi Kwere Community Development Foundation – a grassroots foundation which supports health, education, and economic empowerment in Nigeria.
He is also the Chief Convener of the Nkwa Chi Kwere Movement – a sociopolitical youth movement pushing for inclusion and transformational change in Nigeria’s political landscape. His philanthropy has focused over the last few years on:
• Implementation of strategic empowerment initiatives targeted at catalysing entrepreneurship and helping lift households out of poverty across Imo State.
• Provision of no-interest business loans to qualified graduates in his autonomous community and supporting them to develop business plans to improve their income.
• Facilitating skills acquisition training programmes for Youths with a take-off grant after successful training.
• Implementation of and or support to targeted medical outreaches across Imo State.
• Construction and equipping of a new Obiangwu Model Primary Health Centre at a site beside the current old and dilapidated health centre in Ngor Okpala local government area.
• Enrolment of Imo State residents into the Imo State Health Insurance Schemes to provide financial risk protection.
• Provision of Coaster Buses at the Sam Mbakwe Airport in Imo State to support the State and Federal Governments in transporting passengers during a renovation.
• Facilitating WAEC registration for all students at Central School Obiangwu in Ngor Okpala local government area for the 2024 WAEC Senior School Certificate Examination and supporting extra lessons from the teachers to upskill the students, resulting in successful performance during the examination.
• Targeted support for completion of the new Nursing School of the Ahiara Catholic Diocese in Imo State.
• Targeted support for infrastructural development for many Catholic and Anglican parishes in Imo State.
• Implementing rural solarisation projects in parts of his autonomous community; and
• Distribution of household support items including food and fast-moving consumer goods for household use to mothers and indigent women in his autonomous community.
He has received countless civic recognitions from the Rotary Club of Abuja Federal, several organised groups within the Anglican Dioceses of Egbu/Owerri/Mbaise and the Catholic Dioceses of Ahiara/Owerri, among others. He remains committed to expanding his philanthropic interventions and efforts.
Nkwa Chi Kwere 1 of Obiangwu Ancient Kingdom
Nkwa Chi Kwere of Ozuh-Omuma Kingdom
Nke Chinemerem Ka 1 of Umuobom Ancient Kingdom
Nwa Chinechere 1 of the Ngor Okpala Clan.
Managing Director, Corona Management Systems.
