Victor Anyebe joins SFCCC as a Healthcare Data Analytics and Strategy Fellow through Atlas Corps

Victor is a Public health professional with 6 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector. He earned a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Jos in Nigeria. Victor currently works as the Active Case Finding Coordinator at KNCV Tuberculosis foundation. He leads a USAID ­funded TB case finding intervention across communities and key populations in Nigeria known as WOW (Wellness on Wheels) which uses a mobile clinic platform in identifying and linking diagnosed TB patients to free treatment through innovative screening and diagnostic methods. Prior to this, Victor coordinated two NIH research projects (ISTAR and mHealth) in Benue while working with Caritas Nigeria where congregation based approaches to prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV were implemented with outstanding results achieved. Victor is optimistic that the efficient use of data in designing public health interventions and health policy will ensure sustainability and overall improvement in health systems across Africa.

Fellow Role at SFCCC: Victor will serve as a SFCCC a Healthcare Data Analytics and Strategy Fellow who will help develop a data strategy and streamline the processes used to collect, store, analyze, and report data. He will work with partners to develop usable reports and validate the data used to deliver high quality health care to the most vulnerable residents of San Francisco.

Atlas Corps connects leading social change organizations with experienced professionals from around the world for a yearlong fellowship designed to strengthen organizations, develop leaders and foster innovation. Atlas Corps Fellows are leaders in their home countries with 2 to 10 years of professional experience; they speak fluent English, and 65% hold post­graduate degrees (e.g., MD, JD, PhD, MBA, etc.). This highly competitive fellowship program receives applications from over 5000 leaders from 100 countries for roughly 100 placements – a 2.0% acceptance rate. Learn more about Atlas Corps at www.atlascorps.org.

Jonathan Howell