Henry Victor Doctor

Biography

I am a Coordinator of Information Systems for Health at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in Cairo, Egypt and graduated in 2003 with a doctoral degree in demography from the University of Pennsylvania. My thesis was entitled “Mortality in twentieth-century Malawi.” I took up a postdoctoral research fellowship (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) based at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in the Upper East Region, Ghana. I have over 15 years of experience as a population scientist and also worked at the Universities of Malawi, Western Cape (South Africa), Columbia University, and Statistics South Africa. From mid-2009 to mid-2013, I worked as a resident operations research advisor for a program to revitalize routine immunization, maternal, newborn, and child health in northern Nigeria. I later coordinated the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime research activities in the Country Office for Nigeria (Abuja) until August 2015. My research interests include Mortality; Fertility Transitions; Religion and Demographic Behavior; Survey Research Design and Implementation; Demographic Surveillance and Longitudinal Health Research; and Health Systems Operations Research. Some of my research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as AIDS; BMC Health Services Research; BMC Public Health; Global Health Action; Reproductive Health Matters; Maternal and Child Health Journal; Studies in Family Planning; Tropical Doctor; PLoS ONE; and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.