Wuraola Susan Babalola is a health systems expert with over five years of experience supporting changes across African countries. She is passionate about health systems strengthening, program design, strategy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Wura uses her background, skills and experience to understand and address the drivers of poor health indices in African countries especially in vulnerable, underprivileged and security-compromised communities.
Wura is a program officer in the Market Shaping practice at Results for Development (R4D) where she draws insights from analyses and supports the development of high quality and actionable government, donor and partner-facing documents. She supports the design of market shaping solutions via a hypothesis-driven approach to develop recommendations for internal and external stakeholders, to drive sustainable impact on MMS and MCW projects.
Before joining R4D, Wura worked with an indigenous health consulting firm, Solina, from 2016 to 2021 to implement projects funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Aliko Dangote. She utilized her analytical and problem-solving skills, working with government ministries, departments and agencies and global partners such as BMGF, USAID, UNICEF and WHO to implement interventions and policies aimed at improving access to and coverage of health care services. After completing her master’s degree in 2022, she did a short stint at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance before working with a digital health firm. She also served as a 2023 Youth Delegate at the World Bank Group.
Wura holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Oxford and a first class degree in B.Sc. economics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
She speaks Yoruba, English and a little bit of French.
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