Current Position
Acting Director of Science and Innovation and Programme Manager of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Background
Dr Mosoka P. Fallah is Acting Director of Science and Innovation and Programme Manager of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Through the 1.5-billion-dollar Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative funded by the Mastercard Foundation, 37 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were distributed across Africa. Dr Fallah leads a team that provides technical assistance for COVID-19 vaccine uptake to the 55 member States of the African Union.
Experience
Prior to joining Africa CDC, Dr Fallah served as a Health Security Technical Consultant for the World Bank where he worked on pandemic diagnostics for Cabo Verde, Ghana, Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the context of COVID-19. He also served as a Consulting Senior Scientist for the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for a decade.
Current Roles
Dr Fallah is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health at Harvard Medical School and was recently appointed as an Adjunct Faculty at the newly created Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research (CEID) at Boston University. On June 14, 2023, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Njala University, School of Health Sciences in Bo, Sierra Leone.
Achievements
He was awarded the USAID Liberia Health Worker and the Development Person of the Year 2017 award for his work with Refuge Place International. For his work building community-level trust in the Ebola response, Dr Fallah was named a Time Magazine Person of the Year.
Education
Dr Fallah earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Public Health in Global Health/Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and a Master of Arts degree.
Publications & Research
Dr Fallah's work with Africa CDC has taken him to over 35 countries in Africa, and he has over 100 scientific publications to his credit.
