Dr Ebenezer Baba is medical officer for malaria elimination, surveillance, and audit, at the Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr Baba is currently the pioneer malaria elimination focal point within WHO/AFRO, with a mandate to coordinate and provide technical support to ministries of health on malaria elimination efforts in WHO/AFRO countries. He has conducted technical support missions to several countries, including Botswana, Comoros, Namibia, and South Africa, and has facilitated sessions at regional and sub regional health initiatives.

As a senior public health practitioner and clinician with over two decades of experience, Dr Baba is an accomplished technician, epidemiologist, and facilitator, frequently called on by African ministries of health and global health organizations to develop policies, treatment guidelines, malaria control and elimination interventions, and to evaluate programmatic malaria activities, integrated community case management, and neglected tropical diseases. He served as principal investigator on a number of groundbreaking studies, presented at leading international health conferences, and published scientific findings in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Baba has managed annual budgets up to USD $39 million and led teams of up to 190 health professionals, including previous service as the Africa technical director of the Malaria Consortium. He has played lead technical roles in the successful acquisition of grants and contracts valued at more than USD $500 million from the US Agency for International Development; United Kingdom’s Department for International Development; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; WHO; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.