Principal Investigator
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Dr. Blattner is involved in developing Nigeria’s capacity to implement the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the country by supporting laboratory and clinical capacity building, training of providers and developing implementation structure to ensure that antiretroviral therapy is administered well to avoid the development of drug resistance.

Also as scientific leader in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, Dr. Blattner is directly involved in the research activities of the Division’s scientists and their science, in mentoring their career development as independent academic investigators, and in building structures to support their research. Division scientists engage in research involving four areas: Operations and Implementation Research; Clinical Epidemiology; Cancer Epidemiology; and Pathogenesis Research. In most cases, these research projects take advantage of the substantial clinical and laboratory infrastructure built through a $240 million PEPFAR investment in IHVN.

Over the years, his career Dr. Blattner has integrated laboratory science into his epidemiological research and this continues to be a major focus, abetted by Dr. Jean Carr’s molecular epidemiology expertise and collaborative interactions with the Institute and some scientists outside IHV.

A graduate of Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Blattner – an internationally renowned expert on AIDS and the viral epidemiology of cancer – is a Professor of Medicine; and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. He is also co-founder and Associate Director of the Institute of Human Virology based in Baltimore, USA.

Co-Principal Investigator & Senior Technical Advisor, Clinical Laboratory Services

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Dr. Alash’le Abimiku is Co-Principal Investigator of the PEPFAR Project of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria and Senior Technical Advisor for the IHVN clinical laboratory service. An accomplished virologist credited with pioneering early HIV research in Nigeria and laying the groundwork for the establishment of IHVN, Dr. Abimiku is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention of the Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. She was profiled in Science (2004; 304:1288) as a scientist with “a foot in each country” that has successfully acted as a lynchpin between her home country and the developed world.

Educated at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria, and the London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dr. Abimiku aims to epidemiologically characterize viruses from selected target study populations and HIV disease models in Nigeria to understand the pathogenesis of HIV and for HIV prevention programs including HIV vaccine research.

Building on her postdoctoral training in Dr. Robert Gallo’s laboratory at the National Institutes of Health when she isolated and characterized non B subtype G HIV-1 isolates in Nigeria for the first time, she was instrumental in the establishment of a state-of-the-art two-storey research facility named the Plateau State Human Virology Research Center (PLASVIREC), also fondly called the “The Robert Gallo House” in Jos, Nigeria which has spring boarded many HIV research, training and capacity building activities funded by the Harvard’s Bill and Melinda Gates AIDS Prevention Initiative for Nigeria (APIN), World AIDS Foundation, the US Department of Defense, CDC-UTAP, and PEPFAR where she has acted as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI.

As co-Chair of the African AIDS Vaccine Program, Dr. Abimiku is strategically placed to promote HIV vaccine research in Nigeria.

Chief of Party & Project Director
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Dr. Patrick Dakum is the Chief of Party & Project Director of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria. He coordinates the interdisciplinary responsibilities of the Institute for effective program output in addition to providing overall management of the Nigerian team in implementing the AIDS Care and Treatment in Nigeria (ACTION) Project.

He also liaises with other US Government partners and the Government of Nigeria partners to ensure the success of the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) ACTION Project in the country. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Through the Fogarty-sponsored UM-IHV AITRP research training grant, Dr. Dakum is brokering a research training agenda to build capacity of IHVN and several academic and research partners linked through the PEPFAR program.

Former Information and later Health Commissioner in the Government of Plateau State of Nigeria, Dr. Dakum trained as a medical doctor at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria and Lagos University Teaching Hospital where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Health. His public health career has spanned through the telecommunication industry (NITEL), multilateral agencies (UNFPA), bilateral agencies implementing partners (AVSC, CEDPA, CIDA) and local NGOs (Help International).

Dr. Dakum, who was also a UNFPA local consultant to the French Embassy and Canadian CIDA on health sector bilateral assistance, loves to play table tennis and is a biblical scholar.

Deputy Chief of Party/Managing Director, Corporate Operations

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The Deputy Chief of Party/Managing Director, Corporate Operations, is Charles Olalekan Mensah. He is responsible for the effective and efficient operations of the Institute including administration, finance, and logistics to support treatment, care and support activities for thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

Mr. Mensah serves as the link between the Institute (as a business affiliate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore) and the University. In this position, he is responsible for developing short-term and medium-term strategic plans; management of resources; operating budgets and cash flow projections; compliance with all relevant policies and procedures and managing the human resource needs in support of all the University’s programs in Nigeria.

Charles Mensah is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He trained at the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria and the University of Baltimore, where he earned a Master of Business Administration degree in 2001. He is presently working for his doctorate degree in Public Administration at the University of Baltimore. He loves to play soccer, badminton, table tennis and lawn tennis.

Director, Office of Strategic Information, Training & Research

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Professor Clement Adebamawo is the Director of Strategic Information, Training & Research at the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN). He provides technical assistance in developing the research department at IHVN and ensures that all research emanating from the Institute is of high quality. Through this infrastructure and the Institute of Human Virology’s large HIV treatment and prevention program in Nigeria, faculty members and those of collaborating partners in Nigeria will be able to conduct social and behavioral and epidemiology research as well as clinical trials.

A Professor of Surgery, Prof. Adebamawo was the head of the Institute of Advanced Medical Research and Training at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan. He is also the current Chairman of the National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria and Director of the West Africa Bioethics Training Program funded by the United States’ National Institute of Health.

Clement is also Associate Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore. He enjoys reading, walking and watching movies.

Senior Technical Advisor, Strategic Information

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Dr. Man Charurat is Senior Technical Advisor, Strategic Information. With advanced training in biostatistics and epidemiology methods, Dr. Charurat’s work involves providing statistical and methodologic support for the ACTION Project, with particular interest in the use of statistical model of viral load dynamics to dissect the early host-virus interaction during acute HIV infection.

He is in fact leading a collaborative study between the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health to improve the surveillance and follow-up of acute HIV infections, based on pooled nucleic acid amplication (i.e. pooled plasma PCR). Using mobile counseling and testing approach, this work targets female sex workers.

An Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, USA, Dr. Charurat was educated at the John Hopkins University where he obtained his PhD and M.S. He had earlier obtained a bachelors degree in molecular biology from the University of Washington.

He is actively working on the identification and characterization of immunologic long-term non-progressors among HIV-infected children.

Senior Technical Advisor, Clinical Services

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Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet is the Senior Clinical Technical Advisor at IHVN. She is in charge of providing technical advice to the Associate Director and Principal Investigator concerning all standard operating procedures and program policy decisions related to the medical care of HIV-infected adults at project sites supported by IHVN.

Dr. Etiebet is also a Co-Principal Investigator in the ACTION Adult Cohort (AACT) Study. The AACT Study is a multi-site prospective observational cohort study created to comprehensively assess the long-term outcomes of 3,600 HIV-positive patients in care at six tertiary university teaching hospital outpatient clinics supported by IHVN.

Educated at Yale University School of Medicine, Mary-Ann also holds an MBA in healthcare management from Yale University School of Management. Dr. Etiebet, who is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, also provides direct clinical and didactic teaching at sites and oversees the work of other site mentors supporting the Clinical Department of IHVN. As Senior Clinical Technical Advisor, she develops and implements evaluation and clinical research studies in Nigeria designed to provide evidence regarding best practices to guide program implementation and policy.

Dr. Etiebet, who loves reading, exploring and swimming, is married with children.

Senior Technical Advisor, Community Medicine

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As the Senior Technical Advisor, Community Medicine at IHVN/ACTION Project, Mrs. Emelia Iwu provides technical support for nursing education, mentoring and role integration for comprehensive care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). In addition, she provides oversight for community-based activities, OVC, Safe Injection, Policy and Health Systems Strengthening to enhance access to HIV counseling and testing, linkages to quality care, treatment and community-based services.

One of her research interests is to investigate the impact of upgrading nursing capacity at traditional clinics or wards to support HIV care and treatment as part of a health care team. This research focus targets impacts on quality of care, behavioral outcomes such as treatment adherence and retention in care.

Mrs. Iwu completed her nursing and midwifery education at the University of Nigeria, Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu and Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi before leaving to practice in the USA. She also obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in School Health Services from Rowan University of New Jersey; another undergraduate and graduate degree in Nursing from Rutgers University of New Jersey. She worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner at a Healthcare for the Homeless Program and later at an Infectious Diseases Clinic at Cooper Hospital University Medical Center both in New Jersey.

Mrs. Iwu was an adjunct clinical instructor at Helen Fuld School of Nursing at Camden County College, Blackwood New Jersey. As a current faculty member at the School of Nursing, University of Maryland, she is helping to design and implement a global health certificate program, which will involve clinical and research rotations for US-based nursing students in Nigeria. She has actively worked with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Nigerian nurse leaders to develop a draft HIV/AIDS nursing curriculum and collaboration with Management Science for Health (MSH) to implement the first PEPFAR funded fellowship program for health professionals. She enjoys reading, traveling, cooking and spending quality time with family.

Head, Clinical Services Department

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As the Head of Clinical Services Department, Dr. Usman Gebi Ibrahim handles IHVN’s administration of standard clinical procedures and guidelines in the treatment and care of people living with HIV/AIDS. He also steers the efforts of the medical team towards maximizing the efficiency of HIV clinics.

A member of the Presidential Task Force on putting 250,000 people living with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral drugs (ARV), Dr. Gebi was trained at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree in 1989 and a Master in Clinical Pharmacology. He is a certified fellow in Internal Medicine with sub-speciality in Respiratory Medicine of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

Dr. Gebi, who is a consultant physician and former lecturer in Medicine/Clinical Pharmacology, loves reading, walking, and serving in community self-help organizations.

Head, Strategic Information Department

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Kolawole Falayajo, as the Head of Department of Strategic Information, provides the strategic leadership and coordination that IHVN requires to steer its program’s strategic information activities to greater heights.

A member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Kolawole is also on the Board of Pastors of the Word Alive Ministries in Mokola, Ibadan in Nigeria as well as the Resident Pastor of the Stone Church, Abuja. He was educated at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. He also took a Masters Degree in Informatics from Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan, Ibadan.

Kolawole, who has over 15 years experience with computers and in designing and developing information systems, loves listening to and creating music, dancing, reading about business investment, and watching comedies.

Head, Finance Department

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Debo Olateju is the Institute’s Head of Finance Department with the responsibility of harmonizing and ensuring proper management of IHVN’s financial functions. Since his assumption at the Institute, he has effectively harmonized processes and procedures at all the treatment sites that IHVN is supporting and revitalized its standard operating procedures for all the operating sites.

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Taxation, Debo was educated at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta in Nigeria and the University of Ibadan, where he received a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and a Master Business Administration Degree respectively.

A former Assistant Vice President in charge of regional administration, marketing, and operations at First City Monument Bank Plc in Abuja, Nigeria, Debo spends most of his leisure playing the game of golf and traveling.

Head, Administration Department

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Overseeing the personnel management, staff training and welfare, travels, fleet, general office and facilities management and acting as the security warden of the Institute is Fredrick Hayes. As Head, Administration Department, he provides support to the Chief of Party/Project Director and Deputy Chief of Party/Managing Director on general management of the Institute’s administration.

Mr. Hayes, who is a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (Chartered), full member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered), member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, was educated at the Lagos State University and the University of Port Harcourt, where he received a bachelor of science degree in Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree respectively.

Mr. Hayes loves traveling, reading and sports in general.

PEPFAR Training Coordinator

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As PEPFAR Training Coordinator, Mr. Emmanuel Okochi coordinates the development of integrated programs of training and assessment of IHVN natural history, care, support, data collection, and analysis. He also applies data collection and data analysis to assess the Institute’s training needs and objectively monitors and evaluates their impact and gaps in knowledge that enhance the Institute’s program quality. Mr. Okochi also designs integrated and coordinated curriculum/manuals across multiple program areas for health care personnel to be trained by the Institute.

Mr. Okochi holds a Masters degree in Psychology (Education) from the University of Jos and a Bachelors of Science degree in Nursing obtained from the University of Ibadan. Mr. Okochi, who has over 18 years of extensive experience in adult learning principles and training, program development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation with Pathfinder International and the United States Agency for International Development, also holds Diploma certificates in Nursing Science and in Education.

Mr. Okochi enjoys sports and other humanitarian services in his leisure.

Program Coordinator

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Dr. Fauzia Khan is the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria’s Program Coordinator responsible for the overall coordination of the ACTION Project through communication and liaison with IHVN staff and IHV Baltimore staff to facilitate accomplishment of deliverables in a timely fashion.

She also liaises with relevant departments and units to track key project deliverables and PEPFAR targets. Other duties under her purview include following up with Federal Government of Nigeria staff and the United States Government staff regarding logistical and programmatic issues.

Fauzia holds a Masters in Public Health Policy and Management obtained from Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta USA and Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan. Previously Fauzia had worked with CDC Atlanta in Global AIDS Program and Prevention Effectiveness and Health Economics Branch as a public health consultant in Pakistan. She loves reading and traveling.

Head, Molecular Virology

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Dr. Sam Peters is currently Head of Molecular Virology and directs activities in this area of IHVN work (including PCR and Sequencing). Having led in curriculum development for Clinical Laboratory Trainings, he now focuses on HIV gene sequencing and genotyping.

He played a major role in overseeing the smooth roll out of Early Infant Diagnosis for HIV/AIDS at hospitals supported by ACTION Project as well as led in personnel capacity building and in the identification of the first case of avian influenza in human in Nigeria.

Dr. Peters attended the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom for his undergraduate and doctoral trainings, respectively. He was a Senior Academic at Cambridge University’s School of Clinical Medicine, and at the same time a Visiting Scientist at the Medical Research Council’s UK Human Genome Mapping Project, Resource Center, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. He loves traveling, reading and sports in general.

Head, Diagnostic Virology

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Richard Enzama is the Head, Diagnostic Virology at the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria. He is responsible for the management, organization and development of all PCR-related activities at the central, regional and site PCR laboratories.

Before taking up full-time employment with the IHVN as Viral Load QAAA Specialist focusing on capacity building in PCR lab infrastructure and human resource management, Richard was visiting consultant trainer to IHVN on HIV DNA and Viral Load Assay. He has facilitated the setting up of several PCR labs and the training of many lab scientists in sites funded by PEPFAR.

He was educated at Makerere University in Uganda, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Medical Laboratory Technology, Bachelors degree in Social Sciences and a Masters of Arts degree in Sociology. He also attended the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan and Department of Health Services, Viral and Riketsial Disease Laboratory in Richmond, California USA for professional training. Richard, a Ugandan lives in Nigeria with his family.

Senior Program Officer, Network/Mobile Operations

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Silas Gurumdi is in charge of Network/Mobile Operations at the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria’s Department of Community Medicine. Silas links communities, facilities and other organizations to several services of ACTION Project for seamless access vis-à-vis prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV intervention.

A registered nurse, Silas holds two bachelors degrees in Mass Communication and Social Works obtained from the University of Jos. He was also educated at TRADA National Institute of Social Sciences, Kerela in India, where he earned a postgraduate diploma in Counseling and Psychotherapy.

Before he joined IHVN, he had spent nine years on the staff of Our Lady of Victory Drug Rehabilitation Center in Sabon Gidar Kanar in Plateau State of Nigeria as Senior Counselor/Psychotherapist. He was well known part-time TV producer/presenter with the Plateau State Radio Television Corporation (PRTV) in Jos. Silas enjoys reading, watching football and photography.

Head, Laboratory Commodity

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Previously coordinating the planning, implementation, monitoring and continuity of all Quality Assurance (QA) activities at the AIDS Care and Treatment (ACTION) Project sites, now ensures smooth functioning of laboratory supply chain management system in collaboration with commodity and logistics.

Jugu, who holds a Masters of Medical Laboratory Science in Medical Immunology (MMMLS), was educated at the School of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria and the Federal College of Veterinary and Medical Laboratory Sciences, National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Plateau State also in Nigeria.

He loves reading, traveling and watching soccer.

Head, Immunodiagnostics and Hematology

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Chinwe Ezeaku who was coordinating field operations of the laboratory division of the AIDS Care and Treatment in Nigeria (ACTION) Project as Senior Program Officer, is the Unit Head of Immunodiagnostics and Hematology.

She works under the supervision of the Head of the Department of Clinical Laboratory to supervise and monitor immunology and hematology activities at ACTION sites as well as review and implement all immuno-hematology standard operating procedures (SOPs). Before joining IHVN, she was Principal Medical Laboratory Scientist with the Health and Human Services Department of the Federal Capital Territory Administration in Abuja, Nigeria.

Chinwe holds a Bachelors of science Degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She had attended several workshops on STD, HIV/AIDS and TB. She enjoys reading, listening to radio and meeting people.

Senior Program Officer, Pharmacy

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Avong Yohanna Kambai is the Senior Program Officer (Pharmacy) and Head of the newly constituted pharmacy division of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria. As the head of the drug logistics of the Institute, he supervises the selection, forecasting, procurement, storage and distribution of drugs to treatment sites supported by ACTION Project.

Avong is a Registered Pharmacist (R Ph) and trained at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria, where he obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree with a distinction in Pharmacology in the 1988 B. Pharm. IV final examination. He is currently working on his Masters of Public Health (MPH) thesis degree with the University of Western Cape, South Africa.

Before he came to IHVN, he worked in the private pharmaceutical sector for about 17 years and rose to become a senior manager with a leading national pharmaceutical firm that specializes in the stocking and distribution of rare ethical drugs. He is a Pastor and loves reading as a hobby.

Senior Program Officer, Programs

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As the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) focal person, Dr. Mahmud Gambo assists in the development, adaptation and implementation of guidelines, tools and materials for use in the national scale up services for the provision of standard paediatric services at ACTION-supported sites in Nigeria.

As a consultant paediatrician and IHVN’ PMTCT Working Group Chair, he participates in providing leadership, programmatic and operational oversight of PMTCT and Paediatric care and treatment activities in IHVN/ACTION Project supported sites in Nigeria. Dr. Gambo also provides on-site technical assistance and mentoring to the various IHVN program staff as well as training of identified site staff in PMTCT, Infant Feeding Counseling and Paediatric ART.

Dr. Gambo, who had conducted child welfare clinic on nutrition, growth and development, routine immunization, missed opportunity and childhood survival strategies, was educated at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria where he earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree. He is also a fellow of the West African College of Physicians. Dr. Gambo loves reading, watching soccer, indoor games and swimming.

Senior Program Officer/Regional Manager, North Central, Nigeria

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Dr. Helen Omuh is the Senior Program Officer in the Clinical Services Department of IHVN in charge of the North Central Nigeria as Regional Manager. She is responsible for the coordination and supervision of five hub, 18 satellite and six health facilities, which provide HIV care. She also facilitates training for health care workers and participates in clinical/educational activities in treatment sites located within the North Central Region.

As Manager, she coordinates all regional activities in line with IHVN goals as well as the supervision of 17 regional staff. Helen also carries out advocacy to government and health facility management.

Before she joined IHVN in 2006, Helen was a Senior Registrar in Hematology at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt in Nigeria. She read medicine at the University of Jos and worked as medical officer at the Plateau State Specialist Hospital. She loves reading good novels, watching interesting movies and traveling.

Senior Program Officer/Regional Manager, Lagos (South-West) Region, Nigeria

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The Senior Program Officer in the Clinical Services Department of IHVN in charge of the Lagos (South West) Region is Dr. Timothy Akinmurele. He coordinates and supervises seven hub sites, 14 satellite sites, seven PMTCT sites and other health facilities, which provide HIV treatment, care and support services. He also facilitates training for health care workers and participates in clinical/educational activities in treatment sites located within the Lagos Region.

As Manager, he coordinates all regional activities in line with IHVN goals as well as the supervision of 16 highly motivated, very productive and dynamic staff. Timothy also carries out advocacy to government and health facility management.

Dr. Timothy Akinmurele worked for many years in the private sector as a medical practitioner before joining IHVN in 2005. He is a 1988 graduate of medicine from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin in Nigeria. He also holds a Masters of Public Health degree obtained from the University of Lagos. He loves reading, traveling and sports in general.

Senior Program Officer/Regional Manager, South-South/South-East, Nigeria

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Dr. Sunday Fagbenro is the Senior Program Officer in the Clinical Services Department of IHVN in charge of the South-South/South-East, Nigeria as Regional Manager. He coordinates hub, satellite and HCT health facilities supported by ACTION, which provide HIV medication and care.

He leads the Regional Office team in developing work plans, and deploying available resources to reach set targets and deliverables in mitigating HIV/AIDS in the region. Dr. Fagbenro is directly involved in establishing and managing government and non-governmental relationships in the region on behalf of the Institute.

Dr. Fagbenro, who is a member of the West African College of Physicians, read medicine at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu in Ogun State, Nigeria and earned a Masters degree in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics from the University of Pompeu Fabara, Idec in Spain. He also holds a Masters of Public Health degree and a Masters in Business Administration from Olabisi Onabanjo University. His hobbies include singing, playing the trumpet, reading and public speaking.