Allieu Tommy

I have worked in various capacities in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from the position of supervisor of various medical departments to project medical referent/medical team leader to those of hospital coordinator and director.

As a paramedic/Community Health Clinical Officer and public health practitioner by profession, I have over two decades of experience working with NGOs, including MSF where I have worked the most, in emergency, transitional, and post-war settings.

I have a proven track record of establishing malaria response clinics in South Sudan and Uganda, along with expertise in clinical and people management, maternal and child health, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, integrated community case management, advocacy, community mobilization, and capacity building through community-based approaches.

I have worked with the malaria research centre, commonly called the medical research centre, in northern Sierra Leone, where we carried out clinical and community health interventions in addition to both entomological and secondary data collected at health facilities to shape interventions.

Worked with UNICEF in southern Sierra Leone to encourage antenatal and under-five clinic attendance to reduce the incidence of malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition, anaemia, and respiratory tract infections, which was a success.

First and successfully implemented the home-based (now community-based) management of malaria in 2 districts in southern Sierra Leone. In 2007, we then sold the initiative to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) that then expanded it into community-based where one volunteer can serve several near by villages.

After the completion of ACT (Artesunat+Amodiaquine), patient compliance, we were able to persuade the MoHS of Sierra Leone to replace Amodiaquine with Lumefantrine to increase compliance.

Successfully opened a project in the Southern part of the Bangladeshi city of Dhaka to support national and foreign migrants with basic healthcare, including management of malnutrition, maternal health, and communicable diseases.

Successfully intervened in one of the largest Kala Azar outbreaks in MSF's recent history in the Jonglei state of South Sudan in mid-2014 with a resultant minimal mortality rate.

Led the medical team to intervene in 3 simultaneous outbreaks (cholera, hepatitis E, and measles) amid flooding, as advocacy proved to make little difference in the protection of the civilian camp in the Unity state of South Sudan.

Responded to the casualties of violence in both the Gambela and Somali regional states of Ethiopia. I also did similarly in many states of South Sudan.

Led my team in three studies of visceral leishmaniasis relapse rate in HIV patients, snakebite, and tuberculosis.

Our RCT site in Uzbekistan for TB-PRACTECAL to evaluate the safety and efficacy of regimens containing bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin, for the treatment of MDR-TB was a success.

• University of South Wales, University of London, Euclid University.

• Licensed [Project Medical Referent/Hospital Coordinator] - [1 year]
• Certified [Community Health Clinical Officer], [MSF] - [1 year]
• [Management of Health Services] Training - [1 year]
• [Clinical and medical team management] License - [1 year]

I love reading novels/prose as well as health-related books.

I take delight in playing volleyball.

I love the countryside  and continental  type music