Saade Abdallah

Saade Ahmed Abdallah is a freelance Public Health and M&E Specialist who currently tracks the performance and achievements for complex country, regional, and local HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, health systems strengthening grants and other health initiatives financed by The Global Fund, USAID, United Nations, and other NGOs. Her 25 years of diverse work experience with Ministries of Health, United Nations, local and international NGOs, audit and consulting firms, plus academia.has evolved from basic clinic practice in both public and private sectors to humanitarian assistance,  disease surveillance, health informatics, harm reduction, and finally to epidemiological, behavioural, and social science research. In all her work, Saade has strived to identify health inequities in order to improve health coverage and outcomes for targeted beneficiary communities (vis, host and displaced populations, women of reproductive health, adolescent girls as well as vulnerable and marginalized communities). Saade holds an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University and an MBChB from the University of Nairobi. Notable scholarly articles by Saade include the ‘Johns Hopkins and IFRC Public Health Guide for Emergencies’, ‘US Government Response to Kenya and Tanzania Embassy Bombings,’ ‘African Union Compendium of Best Practices in Drug Prevention, Care and Treatment: Kenya’s Medically Assisted Programme: A Best Practice Model,’ and an IAS Conference poster entitled ‘Moonlight methadone dispensing curbing drug use among enrolled clients in Malindi’. Since the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted widespread health inequities globally, Saade has undertaken independent research on health disparities in Kenya, employing a sociocultural lens.