Public Health Technical Consultant

Amarachi
Tikal Abianuru

MPH  ·  Programme Design  ·  Instructional Design  ·  RCCE/SBCC  ·  Emergency Preparedness

I help public health organisations turn evidence and technical priorities into practical programmes, effective learning products, and stronger health systems and communities.
10+
Years in public health
4
Years with WHO
350+
Digital learning sessions
20+
In-person trainings
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Abuja, Nigeria Nairobi, Kenya Available globally
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru, Public Health Technical Consultant
Services

What can I help you build, improve or deliver?

Technical support for public health programmes, learning systems, community-centred approaches, and health emergency preparedness. I work across the full programme cycle — from design and development through implementation, evaluation, and documentation.

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Public Health Instructional Design & Digital Learning

Turn public health knowledge into structured, practical learning experiences — for health workers, communities, and technical teams.

Course & Curriculum Design Digital Learning Training Packages Learning Analytics Product Review
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Public Health Programme Design & Implementation

Turn public health priorities and funded commitments into structured, executable programmes.

Programme Design Theory of Change Results Frameworks Implementation Planning SOPs
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RCCE, SBCC & Behavioural Insights

Apply behavioural and social evidence to improve how programmes communicate with and work alongside communities — in routine health and in emergencies.

SBCC Strategy RCCE Planning Behavioural Insights Community Mobilisation Audience Segmentation
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Health Emergency Preparedness & Response

Translate preparedness priorities into practical plans, training systems, and response capacity.

Preparedness Planning RRT Training Simulation Support NAPHS Support Community Preparedness
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MEL, Technical Reporting & Evidence

Turn programme information into evidence that supports decisions, demonstrates progress, and improves implementation.

M&E Frameworks Indicator Development Donor Reports Technical Briefs Evidence Synthesis
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Proposal & Funding Development

Turn technical priorities into coherent, well-structured programme proposals and funding documents.

Concept Notes Technical Proposals Programme Narratives Results Frameworks Proposal Strengthening
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Cross-cutting
Technical Advisory & Review

Need an experienced technical perspective on a programme, proposal, learning product, or preparedness initiative? I offer short-term technical advisory, independent review, programme diagnosis, and document strengthening — without a full project commitment. Not sure what kind of support you need? Tell me what you're working on.

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Emerging focus
AI & Digital Innovation for Public Health

Exploring practical applications of AI and digital tools for stronger public health systems and emergency preparedness — including predictive analysis, early warning, workforce learning, knowledge management, programme monitoring, and decision support. This is an active area of professional development, not a current standalone service.

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Service 01

Public Health Instructional Design & Digital Learning

This is not generic corporate instructional design. It is specifically for public health — health promotion, health workforce development, emergency preparedness, community health, RCCE/SBCC, and technical capacity development.

Course & Curriculum Design

Structured learning design grounded in public health practice and adult learning principles.

  • Learning needs analysis
  • Competency mapping and learning objectives
  • Curriculum architecture and module structure
  • Learning pathways and sequencing
  • SME coordination and content development
Public Health Learning Products

Designed for health workforce training, emergency preparedness, RCCE/SBCC, health promotion, and community health.

  • Emergency preparedness and response courses
  • Health promotion and behaviour change learning
  • Health workforce capacity-building programmes
  • Community health and RCCE/SBCC learning products
  • Technical training for programme staff
Digital Learning Development

Practical digital learning design for self-paced and virtual environments, drawing on experience with WHO digital learning platforms.

  • Self-paced and virtual course design
  • Quiz and knowledge-check development
  • Case studies and practical exercises
  • Branching scenarios and simulation-based learning
  • Learner feedback and learning analytics review
  • Course testing and quality assurance

Digital learning development covers content design, learning architecture, and functional specification. Platform configuration and LMS engineering are carried out by technical platform specialists.

Training Packages
  • Facilitator guides and participant manuals
  • Presentation decks and exercise packages
  • Assessment tools and evaluation instruments
Sub-service
Learning Product Review & Optimisation

Public health science, guidance, and evidence evolve. A course that was technically accurate several years ago may now contain outdated content, terminology, or assessment material. This service helps organisations review and update existing learning products rather than automatically building new ones.

Review scope can include: technical and evidence review, learning objective alignment, module sequencing, quiz and assessment review, case study and scenario review, learner instruction review, navigation and user journey, and completion and drop-off analysis.

Engagements can be structured as Review only or Review + Revision, depending on your needs.

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Service 02

Public Health Programme Design & Implementation

Organisations often know what they want to achieve. This service helps structure how to get there — translating priorities into executable programmes with clear logic, activities, and accountability.

Programme & Project Design
  • Programme and project design
  • Theory of Change development
  • Results frameworks and logical frameworks
  • Implementation frameworks and roadmaps
  • Workplan development and activity sequencing
  • SOPs and technical guidance
  • Governance structures and Technical Working Group TORs
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement planning
  • Capacity-building strategy design
Programme Review & Adaptation
  • Programme performance review
  • Implementation support and bottleneck identification
  • Programme adaptation and corrective action planning
  • Monitoring system development
From Approved Proposal to Implementation

Have secured funding but need to translate the approved programme into an executable implementation plan?

  • Review approved programme objectives and commitments
  • Translate proposal commitments into activities
  • Develop implementation workplans and sequencing
  • Clarify responsibilities and technical workstreams
  • Develop monitoring indicators and tracking systems
  • Identify technical and operational gaps
  • Develop capacity-building components
  • Strengthen RCCE and community protection components
  • Support coordination structures

This service is relevant for health-security and preparedness investments, including funded programmes supported through mechanisms such as the Pandemic Fund. Technical support does not imply official affiliation with any funding mechanism or guarantee programme outcomes.

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Service 03

RCCE, SBCC & Behavioural Insights

Both RCCE and SBCC use behavioural and social evidence to improve how programmes understand, communicate with, and work alongside communities. They are not interchangeable: SBCC supports routine health programming and health promotion; RCCE is applied in health emergency preparedness and response. This service covers both — and the space where they connect.

SBCC — Routine & Preventive Health

Social and behaviour change approaches for health promotion, demand generation, and essential health services.

  • SBCC strategy development
  • Behavioural research and audience segmentation
  • Message development and channel strategy
  • Demand generation and community mobilisation
  • Health promotion and service uptake interventions
  • Implementation planning and activity design
Behavioural & Social Insights
  • Behavioural barrier analysis
  • Qualitative research — KIIs and FGDs
  • Social listening and community feedback analysis
  • Message testing
  • Programme adaptation based on behavioural evidence
  • Audience segmentation
RCCE — Emergency Preparedness & Response

Community protection and resilience approaches integrated into health emergency preparedness and response.

  • RCCE strategy development and operational planning
  • Community protection approaches and frameworks
  • Emergency risk communication
  • Community preparedness and resilience building
  • Stakeholder and community mapping
  • RCCE integration into preparedness and response plans
  • Infodemic management approaches
Execution & Implementation Support

Support extends from strategy through to delivery. This is not only strategy writing.

  • Community mobilisation structures
  • Training community actors and health workers
  • Stakeholder coordination and facilitation
  • Monitoring, feedback loops, and programme adaptation
  • Documentation and technical reporting
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Service 04

Health Emergency Preparedness & Response

Translate preparedness priorities into practical plans, training systems, and response capacity. Support ranges from national preparedness planning through workforce development to simulation exercise design.

A — Preparedness
  • Technical support to NAPHS development and implementation processes
  • Readiness assessments and technical gap analysis
  • Preparedness planning and programme design
  • Emergency workforce development
  • Community preparedness and RCCE integration
  • Technical inputs to preparedness frameworks and plans

Support is framed as technical contribution to national and regional preparedness processes, not independent authorship of complete country plans.

B — Training & Capacity Development

Simulation-based learning is a training methodology, not a separate service category.

  • Rapid Response Team training and capacity development
  • Emergency workforce training and competency frameworks
  • Facilitator training and training packages
  • Training needs assessment
  • Curriculum and learning package development
  • Practical exercises and assessment tools
  • Simulation-based learning design
C — Simulation Exercise Support

Support for simulation exercise design, planning, and documentation, including coordination of multidisciplinary technical contributors where specialist expertise beyond my own domain is required.

  • Scenario development and exercise design support
  • Exercise planning and facilitator coordination
  • Multidisciplinary technical expert coordination
  • Exercise documentation and evaluation support
  • After-action documentation and improvement planning

Where an exercise requires specialist expertise beyond my own domain, I can coordinate multidisciplinary technical contributors and subject-matter experts as part of the delivery team. I do not represent myself as constituting a full IHR simulation team.

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Service 05

MEL, Technical Reporting & Evidence

Turn programme information into evidence that supports decisions, demonstrates progress, and improves implementation. This covers monitoring system design, technical reporting, and knowledge products — not specialist statistics or data science.

Monitoring & Evaluation Frameworks
  • M&E framework design
  • Indicator development and results frameworks
  • Programme monitoring systems
  • Tracking systems and dashboards
  • Programme performance analysis
  • Technical review and synthesis of assessment findings
Learning Analytics

For digital learning programmes, monitoring goes beyond attendance to measure actual learning quality.

  • Enrolment and completion analysis
  • Quiz and assessment performance review
  • Learner feedback analysis
  • Drop-off analysis and course performance review
Technical Reporting & Knowledge Products
  • Technical and donor reports
  • Assessment and after-action reports
  • Technical briefs and executive summaries
  • Evidence synthesis and literature review
  • Knowledge products for technical and policy audiences
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Service 06

Proposal & Funding Development

Technical proposal development and strengthening for public health, health systems, health security, preparedness, and community health programmes. This is not grant writing. It is technically grounded programme development expressed in a funding document.

Proposal Development
  • Concept notes and expressions of interest
  • Full technical proposals and programme narratives
  • Problem statements and needs assessments
  • Theory of Change and intervention logic
  • Results frameworks and M&E components
  • RCCE and community protection components
  • Emergency preparedness and workforce components
Proposal Strengthening & Review
  • Technical review of existing proposals
  • Proposal strengthening ahead of submission
  • Alignment with donor priorities and WHO frameworks
  • Logic and results framework review
  • Community-adoption case development

Proposal development support does not guarantee funding outcomes. All proposals are developed based on available technical evidence and stated programme priorities.

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Who I work with

Organisations I support

Technical support for public health organisations across the full programme and policy cycle.

Ministries & Government Health Agencies

Preparedness, workforce development, RCCE/SBCC, programme design, training, and technical documentation.

International Organisations & UN Agencies

Technical consultancy, programme design, instructional design, technical writing, preparedness, and RCCE support.

NGOs & Implementing Partners

Programme design, proposals, SBCC/RCCE, MEL, technical reporting, and training development.

Universities & Research Institutions

Instructional design, research synthesis, technical writing, learning products, and capacity development.

Health Programmes & Development Partners

Technical review, programme strategy, learning products, community engagement, and implementation support.

Selected work

Evidence of the services

A selection of engagements demonstrating the range of technical support available.

Amarachi Tikal Abianuru facilitating an RRT training workshop in Rwanda
WHO AFRO
Regional Emergency Workforce Development

Supported capacity development across the WHO African Region, coordinating regional learning and training activities for Rapid Response Teams and national health personnel.

Emergency Preparedness & Response
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru delivering a digital learning session
WHO
Public Health Digital Learning

Supported course content development, adaptation, quiz and assessment design, course testing, learner feedback analysis, and learning analytics for WHO digital learning programmes.

Instructional Design & Digital Learning
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru facilitating a community health training
WHO AFRO
Community Preparedness & RCCE

Developed REACH-AFRICA and contributed to regional approaches for community and community health worker engagement in emergency preparedness and response.

RCCE, SBCC & Behavioural Insights
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru at an international health security workshop
WHO AFRO
Rapid Response Team Capacity Development

Supported RRT training design, RRT manager capacity development including the Rwanda RRT Managers Workshop, and development of regional training packages.

Emergency Preparedness & Response
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru facilitating a community health training session
Society for Family Health
SBCC & Community Mobilisation

Designed and implemented SBCC and demand-generation programming for family planning, including community mobilisation, peer engagement, and engagement with religious and community leaders.

RCCE, SBCC & Behavioural Insights
South Sudan Second Joint External Evaluation Workshop — WHO and World Bank
WHO AFRO
Health Emergency Preparedness

Supported preparedness assessments, technical reviews, simulation-based training design, and readiness activities across the WHO African Region.

Emergency Preparedness & Response
Continental & international experience

Across Africa and beyond

Technical work has taken place in person across 16 countries in Africa and Europe, and through remote technical support — webinars, virtual courses, technical coordination, and document development — across the WHO African Region.

16
Countries,
in-person engagement
32+
Countries,
remote technical support

In-person engagement

Nigeria Ghana Cameroon Senegal The Gambia Congo-Brazzaville South Sudan Kenya Rwanda Mauritius Botswana South Africa Ethiopia Eritrea Eswatini Switzerland

Remote technical support — WHO African Region

Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Côte d'Ivoire DRC Equatorial Guinea Gabon Guinea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger São Tomé & Príncipe Seychelles Sierra Leone Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
In-person engagement
Remote technical support
Europe (non-regional)

Remote technical support includes webinars, virtual courses, virtual conferences, technical coordination, and document development. It does not imply personal lead responsibility for every programme in every country.

Credentials

Professional standing

10+
Years in public health
4
Years with WHO AFRO
350+
Digital learning sessions
20+
In-person trainings
47
WHO AFRO Member States
MPH — Reproductive & Family Health BSc — Public Health WHO Consultant Roster — Community Protection for Emergencies WHO Global Roster — Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategies Active Peer Reviewer — BMJ Global Health Peer-reviewed publications Africa Women Health Champions — WHO AFRO
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru presenting at a public health training workshop
About

Amarachi Tikal Abianuru is a public health technical consultant with approximately 10 years of experience across public health programmes, including approximately four years within WHO AFRO as a Training Officer in the Emergency Preparedness and Response Cluster.

Her technical background spans health systems and emergency preparedness, workforce capacity development, instructional design for public health learning, RCCE and SBCC, programme design, and evidence and reporting. She has supported international and national public health initiatives across African countries through technical coordination, capacity building, preparedness assessments, operational readiness, digital learning development, and community-centred approaches.

She is currently developing an emerging focus on practical applications of AI and digital innovation within public health systems and emergency preparedness — exploring how these tools can strengthen learning, surveillance, and programme monitoring.

Master of Public Health (MPH)Reproductive and Family Health
Bachelor of Science (BSc)Public Health
WHO Leadership in Health EmergenciesPhases 1 & 2
Africa Women Health ChampionsWHO AFRO
Publications & speaking

Research and public engagement

Frontiers in Public Health · 2024

The Evolutionary Journey to a New Normal for Learning and Capacity Building of Healthcare Workers to Prepare and Respond to Health Emergencies Across Africa

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BMJ Global Health · 2024

An Assessment of the Progress Made in the Implementation of the Regional Framework for Cholera Prevention and Control in the WHO African Region

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Active Peer Reviewer — BMJ Global Health WHO Global Roster — Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategies WHO Consultant Roster — Community Protection for Emergencies (2026)
Speaking & media
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru speaking at a public health training
Amarachi Tikal Abianuru facilitating a workshop
Rwanda RRT Managers Workshop facilitation
Video
Rwanda Rapid Response Team Managers Workshop
Musanze, Rwanda · 2024 · Facilitator
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Media
Nigeria races to contain deadly meningitis outbreak
Expert commentary · Nigeria · 2026
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Webinars
WHO AFRO EPR Webinar Series
Multiple appearances as facilitator and technical expert — WHO Health Security Learning Platform
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Have a public health programme, learning product, or preparedness challenge you need help with?

Tell me what you are working on, what you need to achieve, and where you are stuck. Short-term technical assignments, consultancy engagements, and project-based support considered.

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