Dr. Adive Joseph Seriki is a seasoned public health physician currently serving as a senior consultant at GHV. His work supports the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation PAC team and focuses on RMNCH and infectious diseases. Within his portfolio, Adive brings exceptional creative ability, generative thinking, and innovation. A skilled communicator and problem-solver, he operates effectively across organizational boundaries to establish working relations in a multi-cultural environment.

With over twelve years of deep experience in public health and health financing, Adive specializes in health systems strengthening, primary health care, health advocacy, strategy development, resource mobilization, and stakeholder engagement. He has designed and implemented public health programs across various global health priorities, particularly in resource-constrained settings, generating awareness, resources, and policy changes.

Adive has worked with international NGOs across Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Congo DR, Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe. Notable achievements include developing strategic communication plans for health initiatives, leading advocacy campaigns to improve health outcomes, and engaging in public-private partnerships to advance health product development and delivery. His stakeholder engagement efforts have fostered collaboration with government agencies, international organizations, and the private sector.

With a medical degree and two master’s degrees in global health and health economics, he is also a certified trainer in community case management and clinical management of sexual violence. Outside of work, Adive spends time reading and playing golf.

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Areas of Expertise:

• Health strategy development

• Infectious diseases

• Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, including SRHR

• Polio advocacy (and general immunization)

• Health systems strengthening

• Global health security (including One Health)