Lungi Okoko

Senior Technical Advisor / Data Integration Team Lead, PMI at USAID

• Over 14 years of international public health experience—at the intersection of social impact and public policy. Passionate about scaling the use of digital services that improve health outcomes • Specializing in digital health technology, program management, health policy reform, health systems governance, institutional capacity development, stakeholder engagement, operational research, and strategic direction & planning • Advised governments, influenced legislation, and managed multi-million-dollar projects and campaigns for public and private sector clients, including United Nations, Canadian and U.S. Government agencies • Brokered partnerships between U.S. Government programs and multinational corporations including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Standard Bank, Ecobank, UNITEL (telecom), Nike and the National Basketball Association (NBA) • Strategic, creative thinker, leader, problem solver and self-starter with proven ability to deliver results in fast paced and complex environments. Strong cross-functional networking, negotiating, and closing skills • Speaks French, English, and Portuguese • Work experience in the U.S., Canada and dozens of African countries, including Angola, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Niger, Togo, Guinea, Malawi, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Morocco, and Sierra Leone Specialties: agile project management and design, strategic planning, data analysis, proposal development, performance monitoring and evaluation, impact assessments and surveys, health information technology, health informatics, eHealth, mHealth, ICT4D, health information systems, corporate social responsibility, partnership building, Software: Tableau, Trello, AWS Redshift, AWS S3, DHIS2, OpenDataKit, ONA, XForms, SPSS, EPI Info, MS Excel Analysis ToolPak, MINITAB