Medical Adviser

Dr Robert Ntalo (Sub-Saharan Medical Adviser)

Robert is a medical doctor and a public health specialist with over 20 years of professional and academic experience of working in various African countries including Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, DRC, Somalia, Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. Since completing his bachelor’s degree, he has been working and providing humanitarian and emergency public health and nutrition care services for people affected by conflicts, disasters, and displacements in some of the most underserved and hard to reach areas in Africa.

Robert is well conversant with health care services delivery both as a frontline aid worker as well as a manager and has been instrumental as part of different teams involved in health systems strengthening and health care re-organisation and services delivery, health planning, policy formulation and management for different organisations. He has hands on experience in health and nutrition project planning, monitoring, research and health care evaluation where he has worked projects benefiting different vulnerable populations.

Robert has worked with different international organisations and UN agencies overseeing the implementation and management of different multi-million-dollar health, nutrition, WASH, maternal and reproductive health projects funded by USAID, UN agencies, ECHO, EC, DFID among other international donors.

Robert received his PhD in public health from University College London, a Master’s of Science in International Health from Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel and Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) from Makerere University, Kampala. He is passionate about the improvement of social and health of vulnerable populations especially those affected by conflicts, disasters and displacements.