Amna Abdulsalam (she/her) is a public health professional with six years of experience leading impactful global health initiatives. Her expertise spans program management, data analysis and synthesis to inform decision-making, and market shaping for commodity introduction at local and global levels. Her work includes systems strengthening for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) and nutrition access, pandemic response, HIV prevention and treatment, and gender and human rights interventions in Nigeria.
At Results for Development (R4D), Ms. Abdulsalam serves as a program officer on the Market Shaping team in Abuja, Nigeria. She leads product introduction and scale-up of RMNCH and nutrition commodities at the federal and state levels, developing frameworks grounded in data collection and analysis to address system bottlenecks and functionality gaps. She also coordinates extensive stakeholder engagement to elevate R4D’s market-shaping work in Nigeria and across other geographies.
Ms. Abdulsalam has played a particularly influential role in R4D’s work on multiple micronutrient supplement (MMS) introduction and scale-up in Nigeria and Rwanda. She has supported federal governments in both countries, as well as subnational governments in Kano and Kaduna states, to develop strategic implementation plans and lead costing efforts. In Nigeria, both state-level plans were integrated into state annual operational plans.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Abdulsalam worked on the Global Fund’s HIV grant supporting Nigeria’s HIV epidemic response. Her work included improving access to care for key populations, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and community-level service scale-up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ms. Abdulsalam is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She holds a Master of Public Health degree with a specialization in global health and infectious diseases from Emory University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is fluent in English and Hausa and speaks conversational French.
