Jackson Okuku

Jackson Okuku is a public health professional with over fifteen years of experience providing technical leadership in the design, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of a broad range of public health programs for infectious diseases among priority and key populations (KP) in both the public and private sector. Some of these programs include HIV testing, Pre-exposure prophylaxis, violence prevention, condom programing, and voluntary medical male circumcision. With a background in public health and project management, he has successfully served as Program Officer/Activity Manager for U.S.-Government funded HIV prevention grants/Cooperative Agreements, coordinating funding, reporting, and administration in Zambia. Highly self-motivated, he has worked at technical and management levels in several international development organizations including Fhi360, Jhpiego, and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

• Public Health Association of South Africa (Registered member)
• The Health Professionals Council of Zambia (Registered & Licensed)

• Social network strategy improves access to HIV services for key populations in a legally restrictive environment: Findings from Lusaka, Zambia, International AIDS Conference 2022, Montreal, Canada, 2022
• Improving uptake of viral load tests by key populations in Zambia — A review of two models, International AIDS Conference 2022, Montreal, Canada, 2022
• Innovative enhanced peer outreach approach reaches high-risk adolescent girls and young women in Lusaka, Zambia, IAS 2020, 2020
• Feasibility of Index Testing Among Incarcerated People: Early Results from Four Correctional Facilities in Zambia, IAS 2020, 2020
• Motivating health workers through recognition– Jhpiego Zambia August 2012 male circumcision campaign achieves over five times more than in previous years, International Conference on Sexual Transmitted Infections and AIDS in Africa, Cape Town, 2013
• Catching Up through improved voluntary medical male circumcision campaigns: lessons from Zambia, International Conference on Sexual Transmitted Infections and AIDS in Africa, Cape Town, 2013
• Initial Implementation of PrEP in Zambia: Health Policy Development and Service Delivery Scale-Up, WHO Bulletin, 2019

• Zambia National Strategic Framework 2020-2025
• Zambia National VMMC Site Accreditation Guidelines by Health Professions Council of Zambia
• Zambia Country VMMC Operational Plan and Implementation Strategy 2012-2015 by MOH
• Zambia Country VMMC Operational Plan and Implementation Strategy 2016-2020 by MOH
• Zambia Country Standard Operating Procedure for Prepex Active Surveillance
• Zambia National VMMC Communications and Advocacy Strategy by MOH
• Zambia National Adverse Event Reporting and Tracking Guideline for VMMC
• Zambia National Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Guideline
• Zambia National Implementation Strategy for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis 2020

• U.S. Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation Award 2021, Awarded for the planning and implementation of innovative strategies that led to improved HIV prevention and treatment outcomes for key populations from September 2018– September 2019
• U.S. Mission Honors Award 2021, Awarded for managing a significant crisis involving KP civil society organizations and bringing the program back to successful implementation.
• Eagle Award 2020, Awarded for outstanding success in the scale up of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in Zambia from 10 sites in 2018 to over 700 sites in 2020.
• Eagle Award 2021, Awarded in recognition of an innovative intervention that ensured continuous quality improvement efforts at health facility level are continued amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Eagle Award 2021, Awarded for exceptional progress towards the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Zambia COP 20 targets and program growth during the COVID 19 pandemic.
• International AIDS Society (IAS) 2022 Conference Achievements, Two abstracts accepted for e-poster presentation. Was an IAS 2022 conference panelist and presented a perspective on equity in KP service delivery strategy and programing.

• Professor Kwasi Torpey, MD, MPH, PhD, Head, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, University of Ghana, ktorpey@hotmail.com | ktorpey@ug.edu, +233 244 563 322
• Dr. Morrison Zulu MD, MPH, MSc, Associate Director, Sexual Reproductive, Maternal and New-born Health, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Zambia, 175 Kudu Road Kabulonga Lusaka Zambia, mzulu@clintonhealthaccess.org, 0976384629