Ngozi Erondu

Technical Director

GLIDE- Global Institute for Disease Elimination

Technical Director at the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), Senior Scholar at Georgetown University's O’Neill Institute, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House. Dr. Ngozi Erondu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and global health policy expert with extensive experience in strengthening health systems and global health security. She has contributed to combating infectious diseases such as Ebola, polio, malaria, meningitis, and HIV across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Erondu has held roles including As- sistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Senior Public Health Advisor at Public Health England, and Field Epidemiol- ogist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the West African Ebola response. Her research focuses on disease surveillance, health systems improvement, and health security governance reform. Dr. Erondu is a founding member of the Decolonizing Global Health Alumni group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-chairs the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and mainstream media, advocating for equity in global health research.