This week’s episode features Philip Ode, a Programme Officer/Mental Health Focal Point from CBM Global Disability Inclusion, Nigeria and Tarry Asoka, a consultant in health and development. Together with co-host Tosin Adekeye, they discuss the development and delivery of an essential care package for integration of mental health and Neglected Tropical Diseases, including how communities and people affected have been involved.
Dr. Oluwatosin Adekeye
Assistant Director of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry Ahmadu Bello University Hospital Zaria Kaduna
A social scientist with varied experience in both clinical and research aspects of health among communities in Northern Nigeria. As a Clinical Psychologist, his work has been both on mental and behavioral disorders and the effects of chronic disease on the well-being of patients and caregivers. As a Social Scientist, he just concluded a study that documented the well-being of people with stigmatizing skin diseases and established a care and support group within the community. More recently he is working on developing a well-being tool for parents and children with disability.
Twitter: @TosinOluw, @Sightsavers
Tarry Asoka
Consultant in Health & Development , Independent Consultant
Tarry Asoka is a Medical Doctor with advanced training and qualifications in Health, Population and Nutrition, as well as Social Science Research. Besides providing technical assistance in number of health and health related areas, he is passionate about testing and implementing ‘models of care’ - service delivery reforms that re-organise health service around people’s needs and expectations. In particular, Tarry has a keen interest in organisational innovations within the health system that demonstrate competency in managing and delivering care for specific groups (such as persons with chronic health conditions) or whole population characterised by a combination of four essential elements: providing the right service, in the right setting, by the right person, using the right processes.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarry-asoka-401008175/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re-imagining-community-health-global-south-tarry-asoka/
Asoka, T. (2016a) Imagining a new future for healthcare services in Nigeria. Africa Health (Nigeria Edition). 38 (3): 6 - 8 http://africa-health.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AH-Nigeria.pdf
Asoka, T. (2016b) Feasibility of Managed Clinical Networks in Nigeria: a case of policy transfer to less advanced settings. [Doctoral thesis] Keele: Keele University http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2368/1/AsokaDBA2016.pdf
Philip Ode
Programme Officer/Mental Health Focal Point, CBM Global Disability Inclusion, Nigeria
Philip is an experienced social development worker, specialising in projects/programmes management focused on inclusive community development and the public health concerns of marginalized and underserved populations. He has a strong grounding in project management, having worked consistently in the development space for 15 years. He is an expert in the design and implementation management of health and social development programmes that promote inclusion of marginalized communities in low resource settings.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-ode-35568360/
- Information systems for global mental health https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(15)00097-8/fulltext
- Partnership for the implementation of mental health policy in Nigeria: A case study of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Programme in Benue State https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13033-020-00344-z
- Depression and Experience of Incarceration in North Central Nigeria: A Situation Analysis at Makurdi Medium Security Prison https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-25721/v1
Twitter: @PhilOde, @CBM_Global, @CBMuk, @CBMAustralia, @julian_eaton, @gracekryan
This is a podcast in the series: Connecting Citizens to Science, which focuses on health research based on equitable partnerships between researchers and communities.