https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/ https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/simisola-adedeji.png Simisola Adedeji - Digital Health & M&E Expert Simisola Adedeji, Monitoring and Evaluation Lead at WHO Nigeria and digital health advocate championing technology-led public health across Africa https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/about https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/simisola-adedeji.png Simisola Adedeji - Public Health Systems Architect Simisola Adedeji, M&E Lead at WHO Nigeria, public health systems architect and digital health advocate https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/digital-health-africa-opportunity https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Why Digital Health Is Africa's Biggest Opportunity Africa's healthcare challenges are immense, but so is the opportunity to leapfrog legacy systems with digital-first health innovation. Here's why now. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-nine-years-in https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Nine Years In, Here Is What I Know After over nine years spanning polio eradication, disease surveillance, immunisation, and health systems strengthening across Nigeria, here is an honest account of what the work has taught me. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-coordination https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Coordination is the Hardest Part Lesson 8 of 9: In public health, the technical solutions are rarely the bottleneck. What slows us down is the human and institutional challenge of getting multiple organisations to move in the same direction at the same time. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-polio-systems-thinking https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: What Polio Eradication Taught Me About Systems Thinking Lesson 7 of 9: The global polio eradication programme is one of the most complex public health endeavours ever attempted. Working inside it taught me that you cannot solve a systems problem by optimising one part of the system. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/mpox-surveillance-lessons https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image What Mpox Surveillance Taught Me About Data and Disease Detection Lessons from investigating 231 suspected Mpox cases across 27 LGAs in Imo State, and what the data tells us about the future of disease surveillance in Nigeria. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-surveillance-social-contract https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Surveillance is a Social Contract Lesson 6 of 9: Disease surveillance works only when communities participate willingly. That participation is not automatic. It is earned, and it can be lost. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-communities-not-passive https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Communities Are Not Passive Recipients Lesson 5 of 9: One of the most damaging assumptions in global health is that communities are blank slates waiting to receive interventions. They are not. They have knowledge, priorities, and agency that any effective programme must engage with. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-policy-not-enemy https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Policy Is Not the Enemy of Progress Lesson 4 of 9: Field practitioners often see policy as bureaucratic obstruction. After working at the intersection of policy and implementation for over nine years, I have come to see it differently. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-last-mile https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: The Last Mile Is Where Health Systems Are Won or Lost Lesson 3 of 9: Health policies designed at the national level are only as effective as their implementation at the community level. The "last mile" is not a delivery problem. It is a design problem. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-data-without-context https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Data Without Context Misleads Lesson 2 of 9: In over nine years of working with health data across Nigerian states, the most dangerous errors I have seen were not caused by bad data. They were caused by good data interpreted without adequate context. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/lessons-in-public-health-passion-not-enough https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Lessons in Public Health: Why Passion Alone Is Not Enough Lesson 1 of 9: Over nine years into a public health career, the lesson I return to most often is the one that took the longest to truly understand: passion is not a strategy. https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/blog/mne-digital-transformation https://www.simisolaadedeji.com/opengraph-image Modernising M&E: From Paper Forms to Real-Time Dashboards How digital M&E tools are compressing the feedback loop between health programme implementation and strategic decisions, and what it takes to get the transition right.