Abyu Faris is a seasoned pharmacist with more than 20 years of experience in project management and public health commodities supply chain management. He has played an integral role in strengthening and transforming supply chains across Africa, working on behalf of government institutions and development partners in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Malawi and Liberia.
Mr. Faris is an associate director in Results for Development’s (R4D’s) market shaping practice, where he provides technical assistance to the Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supply Service (EPSS). Mr. Faris provides assistance for the co-development of market shortcoming assessment frameworks and methodologies; leads cross-cutting market analyses including data collection, data cleaning and rigorous analytics; and provides guidance in the application of market shaping approaches to solving market shortcomings in Ethiopia’s public health system. He also supports EPSS and other key stakeholders in development, revision and validation of strategy and policy documents.
Mr. Faris has also managed transformation projects in Ethiopia and Liberia. Before joining R4D, Abyu was a senior technical advisor for Chemonics International where he oversaw the development of an emergency supply chain (ESC) framework for the Ministry of Health and National Public Health Institute of Liberia. In this role, he developed the governance and organizational structure for the Liberia ESC, identified and harmonize priority human and zoonotic diseases, quantified medicines and medical supplies needed to tackle potential outbreaks and associated warehouse and transportation needs. He also estimated total emergency supply chain preparedness costs for Liberia and explored different donor funding mechanisms. In 2018, he managed Ethiopia’s Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency’s Center of Excellence (COE) initiative as project manager and consultant for John Snow, Inc. (JSI) on the USAID AIDSFree Project.
Mr. Faris holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Gondar and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Addis Ababa University. He speaks English and Amharic.
