Bethrand Brian Odume, MBBS, MPH, MWACP joined KNCV in November 2019 as the Country Representative in Nigeria before becoming the pioneer Executive Director of KNCV Nigeria in January, 2020. He is also the Chief of Party USAID TB LON Regions 1 & 2 project, a five-year USAID funded project that is supporting comprehensive TB care and treatment in 14 states in Nigeria.
Odume is a Public Health Practitioner with long-standing extensive experience in both government and private health sector managing and implementing varied public health programs in Nigeria with a focus on TB, TB/HIV, HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), and None Communicable Diseases (NCD). He started his career as a TB program Officer with the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program (NTBLCP), Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria before joining the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At US CDC, Bethrand led key implementation science research in the areas of TB, TB/HIV, and TB infection control that informed key improvement in program delivery and services. He is a founding member of the Nigeria STOP TB Partnership and currently seats on the board of the partnership.
Recent publications
Boyd AT, Odume B, Sidibe K, Onotu D, Ogbanufe O et al. Brief Report: Programmatic Scale-up of Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Among People Living With HIV Through Targeted Technical Assistance to High-Volume Antiretroviral Treatment Sites-Nigeria, 2018-2019. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2020 Dec 1;85(4):450-453. Abstract
Odume B, Falokun V, Chukwuogo O, Ogbudebe C, Useni S et al. Impact of COVID-19 on TB active case finding in Nigeria. Public Health Action. 2020 Dec 21;10(4):157-162. Abstract
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