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Dr. Muhammad Muhammad Saleh is a physician with over fifteen years of public health experience in the design, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public health emergency programmes. His work has focused on infectious disease outbreaks, disasters and humanitarian crises.
He played a pivotal role in establishing Nigeria's National Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) in 2017, a model that has since been replicated across all 37 states of the country. He also pioneered the Intermediate Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) training programme in Africa, producing 55 experts equipped with Incident Management System (IMS) competencies.
Dr. Saleh contributed significantly to humanitarian interventions during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls' crisis and introduced innovative healthcare approaches that expanded access to long-acting reversible contraceptive services in rural Nigeria.
He is a Fellow of the US CDC Public Health Emergency Management Fellowship (CDC–Atlanta), a graduate of the Senior Executive Course at the Abshire-Inamori International Leadership Academy, Washington DC, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance, New Mexico.
Since 2017, he has overseen the CDC Nigeria country office portfolio for Emergency Management within the Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP). He currently serves as Co-Chair of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) driven Health Security Technical Working Group (TWG).
Outside his professional responsibilities, he enjoys cycling and walking.
• Recipient of the US CDC Global Health Center 2023 Award for International Public Health Leadership.
• Led the establishment of Nigeria's National Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) in 2017, now replicated across all 37 states.
• Established the first Intermediate Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) training programme in Africa.
• Trained and graduated 55 public health emergency experts with Incident Management System (IMS) competencies.
• Played key roles in Nigeria's response to COVID-19, mpox and other infectious disease outbreaks.
• Contributed to the humanitarian response during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls' crisis.
• Introduced community-based delivery of long-acting reversible contraceptive services, improving healthcare access in rural Nigeria.
• Fellow of the US CDC Public Health Emergency Management Fellowship (CDC–Atlanta).
• Graduate of the Senior Executive Course, Abshire-Inamori International Leadership Academy, Washington, DC.
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance, New Mexico.
• Recipient of the US Mission Nigeria Staff of the Quarter Award (2022) for outstanding service and leadership.
• Provided technical and managerial leadership for the development of 13 National Guidelines and Policy Documents on Global Health Security for Nigeria.
• Oversees the CDC Nigeria Emergency Management portfolio within the Division of Global Health Protection (DGHP).
• Serves as Co-Chair of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) Health Security Technical Working Group (TWG).