Dr. Gideon Haruna

• Led PMO for a £5.3m Gavi-funded healthcare transformation programme across 6 regions, managing delivery cadence, milestones, risks, issues, and executive reporting.
• Delivered 4M+ patient interactions, exceeding performance targets by 135% through disciplined programme control and recovery management.
• Implemented electronic immunisation records platform enabling real-time performance tracking, operational visibility, and funder reporting.
• Integrated nutrition, maternal and child health services into immunisation workflows to improve coverage and continuity of care.
• Led situational analysis, service design and transformation roadmaps that informed national policy change (expansion of routine immunisation to ages 24–59 months).
• Developed business cases, transformation plans and performance frameworks for governments and institutional funders.
• Managed senior relationships with Gavi, World Vision, UNICEF, national ministries and donors, including preparing Board-level reports and hosting executive site visits.

• Led operational transformation of HIV, COVID-19, and NCD services across 15 health systems, serving 70,000+ patients.
• Implemented integrated HIV + NCD care models, reducing bottlenecks and improving patient flow.
• Introduced digital patient tracking and peer-support platforms, increasing viral suppression from 81% to 95% and retention to >97%.
• Delivered programmes aligned to UNAIDS 95-95-95, exceeding targets by 117%.
• Redesigned immunisation, HIV and NCD service pathways using risk stratification and task-shifting, reducing waiting times and increasing throughput.

Delivered large-scale health systems, community outreach and faith-based hospital strengthening programmes across Nigeria, supporting over 400 hospitals and primary care facilities serving vulnerable populations.

Healthcare Delivery & System Strengthening

• Led design and delivery of community health outreaches, medical missions, and mobile clinics in rural and underserved communities, improving access to primary care, maternal health and infectious disease services.
• Supported hospital operational strengthening across faith-based facilities, including clinical governance, service organisation and referral pathways.

Data, Mapping & Health System Analysis

• Designed and led the Health Systems Plus Project, mapping 400 faith-based health facilities, conducting service audits, gap analyses, and stakeholder mapping to support planning and resource allocation.
• Generated facility-level data used for service integration, capacity building and donor engagement.

Water, Sanitation & Community Resilience

• Led the TIDEy Project linking health, water and environmental resilience, supporting communities facing unsafe water access and sanitation-related disease burdens.
• Mobilised and distributed 4,500 menstrual cups and 1,000 HPV vaccine doses to underserved adolescent girls through partnerships with manufacturers, donors and community leaders.

Resource Mobilisation & Partnerships

• Built relationships with faith leaders, NGOs and community organisations to enable trusted health delivery in sensitive contexts.

Training & Capacity Building

• Developed and delivered health systems strengthening and leadership curricula for clinicians and facility managers.
• Trained frontline providers on service quality, patient engagement, and data use.

Led a turnaround programme to stabilise hospital revenue and insurer payments across public and private Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs), combining digital transformation, process redesign and stakeholder management.

1. Digital & Data Transformation

• Led rollout of an electronic medical record (EMR) and billing system to create visibility over insured patients, services delivered, claims submitted and payments received.
• Built a live patient–payer registry linking clinical encounters to insurance coverage, enabling accurate claims tracking and auditability.

2. Revenue Cycle & Claims Optimisation

• Diagnosed three core failure points:
  HMO non-payment of capitation, claim rejections due to clerical errors, and payer avoidance tactics.
• Re-engineered the claims preparation process by aligning clinical documentation with invoicing requirements, eliminating mismatches that led to rejections.

3. Stakeholder & Payer Management

• Introduced monthly HMO reconciliation meetings to clear backlogs, resolve disputes and enforce payment timelines.
• Led commercial negotiations with HMOs, using data from the EMR to pursue unpaid capitation and outstanding claims.
• Established a disciplined governance cadence between hospital finance, clinicians and payers to prevent revenue leakage.

4. Financial & Operational Impact

Healthcare finance, digital transformation & operational recovery

• Recovered and secured over ₦200 million (£1 million) in additional revenue within 10 months.
• Reduced claims processing time by over 50%, improving cash flow and financial stability.
• Enabled hospital leadership to make evidence-based operational decisions using real-time payer and service data.

Delivered frontline inpatient and outpatient care across medicine, surgery, paediatrics and obstetrics/gynaecology, developing a deep understanding of patient pathways, clinical workflow and service delivery constraints that later informed health-system transformation work.