Is the Country Director for PharmAccess Foundation, an international NGO dedicated to facilitating affordable access to quality health care in Africa by stimulating investments in the healthcare industry through partnerships with the private sector and government institutions. She has oversight of activities that support demand side financing through insurance, supply side quality improvement using our ISQua accredited SafeCare© Methodology, access to finance for healthcare SMEs through our Medical Credit Fund. PharmAccess also has a digital agenda, developing and promoting innovative digital solutions to enable seamless access and improvement in health outcomes such as our HealthConnect App to leverage international remittance for health, our Health Facility Quality Improvement tool (QIT), Multi system Poverty Screening tool (MPS), Mobile App for TB Screening (MATS) and digital insurance platforms using the mobile phone to aggregate funding and payment for healthcare services, amongst several other innovations.
Njide has over 25 years leadership roles in the healthcare industry in the United States and Nigeria, and has worked as a consultant to several healthcare organizations. She was recently appointed to serve as a Commissioner for the Lancet and FT Commission on Digital Health and AI -Governing Health Future, set up to explore how digital and frontier technology can be used to accelerate UHC especially for the young population and low-income countries, as well as member of United Nations Global Compact Healthcare Expert Group focused on Sustainable Infrastructure for the Belt and Road Initiative to accelerate the SDGs by leveraging Technology.
Njide has an MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management from London School of Economics, an AMP from INSEAD Business School, France, an MBA from the University of Houston, a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance and a B. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Nigeria. She is an EXCO member of Healthcare Federation of Nigeria, a Trustee and sponsor of the Healthcare Excellence Award and remains on the Board of the Society for Quality in Healthcare in Nigeria.
