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Cheikh Seck

Senegal
Horizon Santé

Dr. Cheikh Seck is a public health physician with 30+ years of experience in managing maternal, child, infant and adolescent health programs and projects. He has made significant achievements in scaling up health innovations in Francophone West Africa in collaboration with a diverse range of funds and implementing partners. While Director of the BMGF-funded Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (ISSU) project, he helped lead significant improvement in contraceptive and essential drug management in Senegal’s health facilities following a pilot demonstration project called “Informed push model- IPM” which has since become the procurement model in Senegal. He also helped lead the development of a toolkit of proven interventions called the “Paquet Porteur” that was scaled up in Senegal and in francophone West African countries under The Challenge Initiative (TCI) project. Dr. Cheikh has made a significant contributions to the institutionalization of the systematic client needs identification approach (ISBC) to reduce unmet need for FP, provide women with information on FP, and refer them to family planning services. Since July 2015, the institutionalization of the ISBC is effective in Senegal and adopted by many countries in west African region. Thereafter, Dr. Cheikh became an independent consultant through which he has worked closely with ExpandNet, WAHO, IntraHealth, Pathfinder International and the Africa Resource Center on specific initiatives as well as a diverse range of scale-up planning activities ranging integrating PPFP/MNCH/nutrition services, adolescent SRH, and more. He has special expertise in building the capacity of state and non-state actors to implement pilot and demonstration projects using a scaling up lens, to develop scaling-up strategies for successfully tested interventions and to manage scaling processes, using the ExpandNet/WHO systematic scaling approach as well as monitoring and evaluating scaling plans.