Deogratias Damas Ngoma
Summary
Dr. Ngoma is a Tanzanian medical doctor, and public health specialist with two decades of experience managing and leading complex public health interventions in resource limited settings. His program areas of focus include neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), eye health including elimination of needless blindness, WASH, MCH, HRH, NCDs, HIV/AIDS, and nutrition.
Dr. Ngoma holds a MBChB (MD) from MUST -Uganda, MPH Methodology from ULB -Belgium, B.A. (Bible and Theology) from the Global University USA, and a Diploma in Project Planning & Management from Cambridge International College-UK. Dr. Ngoma has worked closely with MOH, MOE, INGOs, donors (including USAID, DFID, IZUMI Foundation, CIFF, etc.), and other development partners in the Africa region. Dr. Ngoma has held strategic positions including Country Director for Helen Keller International, Tanzania Country Lead Crown Agents- ASCEND and ARISE projects, Country Director -Tanzania Seed Global Health, Country Manager Touch Foundation, Director of NTD programmes with IMA World health, International UNV, Care and Treatment Adviser at Malawi’s MoH HIV unit.
Dr. Ngoma is well connected within the global health space, both within Africa and internationally; over the years, has gained respect from key health sector stakeholders, high profile government officials, INGOs, and the private sector. In his 20 years’ experience leading and managing complex health programs, Dr Ngoma has demonstrated excellence in working and leading teams composed of people from diverse cultures and professional backgrounds. He maintains clean track record of managing donor funds with $10 Million annual budgets. His passion is to see all people free from preventable suffering the world over.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Country Director
Helen Keller International, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
04.2022 - 04.2024
- Provide strategic leadership and develop action plans that further the mission of Helen Keller and meet the evolving conditions in Tanzania
- Overall responsilbe for ensuring technical and operational excellence in the delivery of all activities to achieve the objectives established in grants and strategic plans and representing Helen Keller to disseminate findings and secure and expand funding for project activities in Tanzania.
Crown
Agent UK, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
05.2019 - 04.2022
Country Lead
Sickle Cell Program (SCP) MUHAS
12.2018 - 04.2019
- ASCEND /ARISE Project Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar
- Roles: Provide strategic leadership and overall program implementation oversight in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar
- This included provision of programmatic and technical support to ASCEND/ARISE consortium and Tanzania and Zanzibar Ministries of health, building relationships with all NTD stakeholders in Tanzania and Zanzibar and providing leadership to a team of over 10 technical people supporting respective MOHs in the implementation of the ASCEND/ARISE project in Tanzania
- Development and monitoring of country work plans and budgets, Country Operational Plans, development of TORs and review and assessment for potential implementing partners (Ips) in the Africa regional and seat in a number of Technical Working Groups for the Consortium
Interim Country Program Manager
Touch Foundation Tanzania
09.2018 - 12.2018
- Mwanza Tanzania
- Roles: Country program manager: Connect all programs to have a view of Touch Foundation overall operations in Tanzania
- Develop and manage work plans and budgets of all the four programs, track expenditures, develop and manage M&E frameworks, Own relationships with all implementing partners including monitoring their work plans and budgets, track reporting to funders and manage quarterly meetings with funders, provide leadership to the entire team around their work streams and provide direct supervision to a total of 10 multinational staff and manage a total annual budget of $ 7M.
Country Director
Seed Global Health Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
08.2015 - 09.2018
- Roles: Responsible for the proximal representation of Seed Global Health in Tanzania, provision of strategic direction and leadership and assisting with philanthropy and development opportunities for Seed Global Health for all country operations
- Further, to provide close clinical and pedagogical support/technical assistance to up to 20 volunteers (GHSP/Seed volunteers: American nurses and physician educators) to optimise their general capacity to perform their professional functions as clinician-educators
- Involved with the organisation registration in Tanzania, establishment of linkages with respective ministries, in country local and INGOs, funders and other stake holders in HRH in the country.
Director of Programs
IMA World Health, Dar Es Salaam
08.2010 - 08.2015
- Tanzania
- Roles: Overall, as director of NTDs my major role was to provide strategic leadership and oversight to all different NTD programs in Tanzania, namely, a) the USAID Envision project b) DFID supported SAFE project, c) the Izumi foundation funded morbidity management program
- I provided overall leadership, technical and managerial support for the implementation of all NTD programs in Tanzania
- Developed country operational plans (COPS) for all the three NTD programs, Managed all the partnerships with the government of Tanzania through 3 key ministries i.e
- MOH, MOE and Ministry of finance, managed 166 sub grantees (all the regions and districts in Tanzania mainland plus National NTD control plan unit at MOH), led national and regional advocacy, buy in meetings and any other negations on behalf of the organization, represent the organization to international NTD fora and donor meetings, provided direct supervision to over 20 staff from diverse professions, managing an annual budget of up to $ 10 million
Program officer cum Team lead AIDSRelief Program
IMA World Health
01.2008 - 09.2009
- Mwanza Tanzania
- Roles: Acted as principal liaison between AIDSRelief Consortium and local partner treatment facility (LPTF) in Mwanza and Mara regions, worked closely with the LPTFs to strengthen partnership with the AIDSRelief consortium, coordinate implementation of the program activities and ensure the long-term sustainability of ART delivery
- Collaborated with relevant AIDSRelief Consortium teams to ensure program system implementation and accurate and timely reporting submissions
- Coordinated, supervised, evaluated, and ensured performance of day-to-day activities for Mwanza office staff
- Approved all financial and nonfinancial transactions for IMA World Health Mwanza office
- With LPTF’s staff, developed quarterly implementation
- Plans for each LPTF based on the annual work plan and reviewed work plans with the LPTF’s during monthly
- Supervisory site visits.
UNDP Malawi
03.2006 - 12.2007
Consultant -Interim Program Manager
Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
- Roles: The program encompasses sickle cell research, training and advocacy in order to improve patient care and clinical outcomes
- Responsible to coordinate the Sickle Pan-African Research Consortium (SPARCO) project funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH); a trilateral project with research institutions in Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria to foster intra-Africa research collaboration and to leverage clinical and research synergies to support research and clinical care advances in Sickle Cell Disease
- Oversee daily operations of SCO and provide direct supervision to over 20 SCP staff.
International UNV-ART supervisor
11.2018
- Lilongwe Malawi
- Roles: Organised and undertook quarterly mentorship and supervisory visits to 38 ART sites in the central region, Provided and coordinated in-service training and attachment programs for professional health workers in the central region, Worked with the MOH HIV unit in monitoring and evaluation of the ART program in Malawi, Conducted regular assessments of HIV/AIDS patients and prescribed appropriate ART interventions, Prepared quarterly reports on the performance of ART clinics in the central region for submission to the MOH HIV Unit and other stake holders and initiated measures to remedy weaknesses, Developed operational research proposals in collaboration with the MOH HIV Unit and played a leading role in performing research, Organised teaching sessions in hospitals visited according to the needs expressed or weaknesses identified
- Consultancy
- Finalization of the communication and social mobilization strategy for the HPV vaccine in Tanzania, Supported by Girl Effect Tanzania, October 2020
- Updating LF and Trachoma Dossier, supported by IMA World Health Tanzania through the MOH
Interim Program Manager
04.2019
- Program (SCP) MUHAS, Baseline assessment of NTD Program in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, supported by Crown Agents UK, July 2019
AIDS Clinical Consultant
01.2004
- PHARM ACCESSS International Mwanza Tanzania; needs assessment of all the earmarked facilities to provide ART in the Lake Zone
- Identified gaps and advised District and/or Hospital management on possible ways to address gaps
- Provided clinical support to ART clinics in the Lake Zone
- Organized and trained Health Care Workers on the Tanzania National
Education
BA - Bible and Theology
Global university USA
01.2017
MPH -
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
01.2010
International diploma - project Management
Cambridge International College UK
01.2007
MBChB (MD) -
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
01.2002
Accomplishments
- July 2013: Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission Assessment Survey, organized by WHO, AFRO office in Harare, Zimbabwe
- September 2012: Trachoma Baseline and Impact Surveys training, organized by ENVISION Project
- June 2009: USAID Rules and Regulations, organized by In- side NGO
- 2009: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) training organized by AIDSRe-lief Clinical Team, Dar es Salaam
- September 2008: Program Management Training, organized by AIDS Relief, Dar es Salaam
- March 2008: Finance and Compliance Training, including USG Funds, organized by CRS Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
- March 2006: Basic Security in the Field: staff safety, health and welfare, organized by UNDP, Malawi
- August 2006: Cross Cultural Communication, organized by UNDP, Malawi
- October 2005: Improving Access to Care for Diabetes and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, organized by Tanzania Diabetes Association, For five years, led the complex nation-wide five NTDs elimination program in Tanzania focusing on Mass Drug Administration (MDA) and morbidity management interventions
- The elimination efforts involved a wide range of stakeholders ranging from community members to international actors
- Recognized for managing these relationships effectively and productively
- The Tanzania NTD control program was and still is one of the high performing NTD programs in Africa
- Successfully led the program expansion from three regions to full geographic coverage
- Helped lead the inception of the HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment program in the lake zone between 2004 to 2006; led the assessment of all CTCs, provided technical assistance, and built capacity of all staff in all the first CTCs in the lake zone
- Publications and Conference presentations
- Healthcare Workers’ Low Knowledge of Female Genital Schistosomiasis and Proposed Interventions to Prevent, Control, and Manage the Disease in Zanzibar; International Journal of Public Health; https://www.academia.edu/103038438
- Female genital schistosomiasis is a sexually transmitted disease”: Gaps in healthcare workers’ knowledge about female genital schistosomiasis in Tanzania
- PLOS Global Public Health, 2022; https://www.academia.edu/103038436/
- We know about schistosomiasis, but we know nothing about FGS”: A qualitative assessment of knowledge gaps about female genital schistosomiasis among communities living in Schistosoma haematobium endemic districts of Zanzibar and Northwestern Tanzania
- PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021; https://www.academia.edu/103038400
- Precision and geographical prevalence mapping of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis among school-aged children in selected districts of north-western Tanzania: https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-022-05547-6
- Partnering to Build Human Resources for Health Capacity in Africa: A Descriptive Review of the Global Health Service Partnership’s Innovative Model for Health Professional Education and Training from 2013 to 2018: IJHPM-2006-4975, https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3973.html
- Progress of Trachoma Mapping in Mainland Tanzania: Results of Baseline Surveys 2012 to 2014,Opthalmic Epidemiology DOI:10.1080/09286586.1236974, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116913/
- World Health Organization Clinical Stage 3 Disease Conditions in HIV infected Patients who Start Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi
- Tropical Doctor; 2008; v
- 38 pg
- 158-160
- Understanding barriers to effective community-based mass drug administration (MDA)
- Poster presentation at global health and innovation conference April 2014
- Empowering Communities to Deliver Public Health Interventions: The use of community drug distributors for NTD control and prevention in Tanzania
- Poster presentation at American Public Health Association annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2013
- Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis Morbidity in Resource-Limited Settings: A morbidity management hydrocele project in Lindi region Tanzania
- Poster presentation at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting, Washington DC, USA 2013
- Improving Neglected Tropical Diseases through North- South Global Health Partnership
- Poster presentation at American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Atlanta, Georgia USA 2012
- Strengthening local health systems to address Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) morbidity in a resource limited setting: A morbidity management project in the Lindi region of Tanzania, November 2014: 142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition 2014
- Improving Neglected Tropical Diseases through North- South Global Health Partnership
- Poster presentation at American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Atlanta, Georgia USA 2012
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Timeline
Country Director
Helen Keller International, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
04.2022 - 04.2024
Crown
Agent UK, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
05.2019 - 04.2022
Interim Program Manager
04.2019
Country Lead
Sickle Cell Program (SCP) MUHAS
12.2018 - 04.2019
International UNV-ART supervisor
11.2018
Interim Country Program Manager
Touch Foundation Tanzania
09.2018 - 12.2018
Country Director
Seed Global Health Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
08.2015 - 09.2018
Director of Programs
IMA World Health, Dar Es Salaam
08.2010 - 08.2015
Program officer cum Team lead AIDSRelief Program
IMA World Health
01.2008 - 09.2009
UNDP Malawi
03.2006 - 12.2007
AIDS Clinical Consultant
01.2004
Consultant -Interim Program Manager
Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
BA - Bible and Theology
Global university USA
MPH -
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
International diploma - project Management
Cambridge International College UK
MBChB (MD) -
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
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