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Dr. Adeyi is Coordinator of Global Partnerships for Communicable Diseases at the World Bank, where he leads a team to translate the Bank's corporate commitment to disease control into large scale actions.  He leads the Bank's Malaria Task Force. 

He has extensive experience in health systems and disease control.  He has served as Team Leader for Health Programs in Russia - - including the Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Project, and Regional Focal Point for HIV/AIDS in the Europe and Central Asia Region.  From 1999 to 2001 he was a senior adviser to the UNAIDS Secretariat in Geneva, on secondment from the World Bank, working on strategies for linking HIV/AIDS control to poverty reduction strategies and debt relief, as well as methods to improve the technical contents of the programs.  From 2001 to 2004 he was Associate Technical Director of the AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a Grant to the Harvard School of Public Health.  Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for WHO in Ethiopia and Pakistan and for the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria.  He holds a doctorate in health systems from Johns Hopkins University, a master's in public health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a medical degree from the University of Ife in Nigeria. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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