With nearly Three decades of professional experience in the Public health sector, Ms Adebajo is currently a member of the Steering Committee, National Institute of Health-funded Fogarty Program; an Integrated Network of Scholars in Global Health Research Training (INSIGHT). Having held other leadership and administrative roles within and outside Nigeria, She is a Reviewer at, the National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria, and has previously worked as a research assistant at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Sylvia Adebajo is renowned for both her academic and professional experience in Nigeria and abroad. She is a graduate of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the University of Toronto, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she was also a research assistant. With over 100 journal articles and academic publications, Adebajo can be described as an erudite scholar.
Micheline brings to us over 20 years of experience in SME growth, impact investment, sustainability and public health management across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. She has worked with leading companies such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, where she managed a team of 25 staff spread across seven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop advisory strategies on corporate governance, energy efficiency, supply chain strengthening and community engagement for companies in the agribusiness, extractives, financial and manufacturing sectors. Prior to that role, she was the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager for Africa and the Middle East at Nokia. She pioneered the use of mobiles for health data collection and collaborated with other organizations to the develop mobile solutions for high school level maths.
Within the public health space, she has held several management and advisory positions with leading nonprofit organizations on thematic areas such as maternal and child health, Malaria and HIV/AIDS and public health nutrition. As the Associate Director, Africa for Rockefeller International in Nairobi, Kenya, Micheline was responsible for the strategy development and execution of a multimillion dollar country program to link youths to digital skills and employment opportunities, responsible for strategy development and execution. She also consulted for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to develop a national health strategy and costing framework in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on her senior management positions with both private and public sector organizations and across multiple sectors including economic development, finance, health, agriculture, and education, she currently serves as a Director on the Board of Oxford Policy Management (OPM), a leading policy advisory international development firm.
She received her B.Sc in Biology from Mount Holyoke College, USA. She also holds an MSc in Nutrition and Public Health from Tufts University, USA and an MBA from University of Cambridge, UK.
In addition, My invests in and advises startup companies in the US, Canada, and India. My joined the startup company Granite Systems, which was later acquired by Cisco Systems. At Cisco, she gained extensive design and development experience in networking components. She performed a multiplicity of roles during her tenure at Cisco, including serving as an architect and designer for a project that created a next generation high performance router. My also served as the architect for a project that delivers a new routing and switching engine for a key product in the Enterprise Line of Business. She has additional industrial experience working with the Global Health Research Foundation, GreenPlug, Jooners, and Benetech. My obtained both her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. My received her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Formerly, he served as USAID’s Global Development Lab’s Africa Regional Advisor . In this role, he supported USAID’s digital finance initiatives in health, social protection, agriculture, and democracy and governance programs. Andrew was a principal contributor to The Population Council’s mHealth initiatives. This work spans over 30 projects in HIV prevention and treatment; maternal and newborn health; and poverty, gender, and youth interventions.
Andrew has designed and implemented technology deployments across Africa, including the delivery of pre- and post-test HIV counseling via mobile phones. Additional technology solutions he’s implemented include mobile job-aids and task-shifting tools for low-literate community health workers, the application of mobile phones to survey sampling techniques, and the deployment of point-of-service user self-assessment tools in low-resource healthcare settings. Andrew previously served as the Country Director for the Population Council in Nigeria. Prior to that role, he was the lead behavioral scientist on the Truvada PrEP clinical trial at CDC Botswana. Andrew has worked in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia for over 18 years, providing technical assistance to research initiatives, policy analysis, advocacy development, program design, and monitoring and evaluation systems. He has conducted evaluations for a variety of clients, which include: community-based organizations, host governments, multilateral and bilateral international donors, national and international NGOs, and UN agencies. Andrew has extensive experience working in conflict and post-conflict settings delivering emergency aid and health care, facilitating epidemiological surveillance and social appraisals, and assisting with transitions to sustainable development.
Andrew holds a PhD in Public Health and Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He earned both his MA in Bio-medical Anthropology and his BA in Anthropology and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.
Adam Thompson is an innovator, strategic disruptor, and transformation specialist. Adam is recognized for his exemplary leadership, innovative mindset, communication skills, and proven track record of success. Adam believes in the transformative power of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors working together. He believes that as local and global communities, we can reimagine sustainable financing for public health delivery systems, strategically deploy new medical technologies, and accelerate equitable access to lifesaving services.
Adam has over 20 years of professional experience and brings a unique perspective in shaping new ideas to tackle our most significant global challenges. Experience includes: Current positions as the CEO at EHA Clinics, a start-up health company in Nigeria, and President at eha Impact Ventures, a philanthropic impact investing organization. Previously, he was the Executive Director of eHealth Africa, which played a pivotal role in the polio, ebola, and covid emergency responses. Adam received his BSc from The University of California, Santa Cruz, in Information Systems Management.
Evelyn Castle is a pioneering health executive and impact investor. After spending over a decade working in the health sector in Africa, she is now committed to building Africa’s impact investing ecosystem, with the specific goal of supporting female-owned small and medium-sized enterprises.
As the co-founder of 3 social ventures; eHealth Africa, EHA Clinics, and eha Impact Ventures, Evelyn Castle brings vast knowledge and expertise to her role supporting SMEs.
Evelyn, a California native, co-founded eHA in 2010 with Adam Thompson. She notably oversaw fundraising efforts that resulted in the organization drawing in over $250 million during a 10-year period, and also spearheaded initiatives that resulted in the eradication of polio from Nigeria and the containment of Ebola in West Africa.
In July 2018, Evelyn Castle entered the private healthcare industry and co-founded EHA Clinics, a network of primary health care providers, with the goal to become the premier healthcare provider in Nigeria.
At eHA and EHA Clinics, Evelyn saw firsthand the challenges with implementing projects and running companies in Africa — including infrastructure, security, human resources, and corruption challenges. She believes that aid can be an incredible resource to solving public health crises’ such as polio and ebola, but supporting the local economy and business ecosystem may be a better solution to achieving sustainable change within the region.
In service of this mission, Evelyn Castle is a venture investor through eha Impact Ventures, which she co-founded in January 2021. In addition to being a thought leader in impact investing, she frequently speaks about gender investing, social impact, and health tech in Africa at conferences and public forums.
