Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah, most recent positions before joining SLL Project of Africa CDC was a short term Health Security Technical consultant for the World Bank where he worked on Pandemic diagnostics for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the Context of the COVID-19. He also served as a contract Consulting Senior Scientist for the US National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) through Medical Science & Computing, LLC (MSC) based in the USA.
He is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health at the Harvard Medical School. He was recently appointed as an Adjunct Faculty at the newly created Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research (CEID) at Boston University.
Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an NGO in Liberia and the USA (Refuge Place International) to address the issues of access to quality affordable health care that impacts maternal and infant mortality among poor urban and rural dwellers in Liberia and is about to open an office in Sierra Leone. He was awarded the USAID Liberia Health Worker and the Development Person of the Year 2017 award for his work with Refuge Place International.
He was the recent past Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) that he co-founded. NPHIL was developed as a consequence of the devastation of the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
Dr. Fallah completed his PhD in Immunology at the University of Kentucky, his MPH in Global Health/Infectious Disease Epidemiology, at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. For his work building community-level trust in the Ebola response, Dr. Fallah was named a Time Magazine Persons of the Year in 2014.
In June of 2019, he visited the Democratic Republic of Congo, as a part of a team of local NGO and York University in Canada, to evaluate and advice on the Ebola response.