Mrs Juliana Abude-Aribo

Serves as the Executive Director of LISDEL. She is a project management specialist with good experience in health systems strengthening, healthcare financing and private sector partnerships. One of her strongest points is the ability to convene development partners and multi-sectoral actors to collectively agree a common objective, mobilizing much needed resources and enabling partnerships. Some of these efforts have achieved some very important goals, some of which are highlighted in this profile.  She is quite adept at diplomacy, analytical reasoning and negotiation, with remarkable technical resourcefulness. She holds a Masters in Legislative Studies from the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies in affiliation with the University of Benin, Nigeria.
Her experience in healthcare financing reform includes mobilising additonal  domestic resources for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; and sustainable Financing for HIVAIDS and TB.through the public and private sectors. She is versed in effective approaches to promote reforms to State Governments and Legislatures and her work in this area facilitated the establishment of the Legislative Network for Universal Health Coverage and subsequent inclusion of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund in the 2018 federal appropriation for the first time since the National Health Act was enacted. Her work also contributed to similar achievements in a number of states; propelling the establishment of legal frameworks in over 15 states to enable access to the BHCPF and expansion of affordable healthcare services to Nigerians through health insurance/contributory health schemes. Similarly, she facilitated inclusion of a budget line for the coordination of malaria response in Nigeria by the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), a first since the establishment of the NMEP.