Forward Health – redefining health

From the policy table to the point of care.

Forward Health advises governments and donors on health security, designs and delivers donor-funded programmes, and helps healthcare providers meet international quality standards across Africa and beyond.

Founded by Dr Emmanuel Agogo, physician, former Deputy Director at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and former Director of Pandemic Threats at FIND.

Three connected services

Many clients use more than one: advice that shapes a programme, then a programme that raises the standard of care.

Advisers meeting with government health officials

Epidemiologist reviewing surveillance data

Health security and systems advisory

We help countries and regions prepare for outbreaks and pandemics: assessing capacity, writing the plans that follow, and raising the money to deliver them.

For ministries of health, national public health institutes, regional bodies, multilaterals and donors.

IHR (2005) and Joint External Evaluation support
National and subnational action plans for health security
Outbreak and pandemic preparedness strategy
Diagnostics and antimicrobial resistance advisory
Donor proposals and resource mobilisation
Regional health security strategy

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Programme team working with community health workers

Programme design and implementation

We design donor-funded programmes and help run them, taking responsibility for teams, budgets, partners and results from the concept note onwards.

For donors seeking a delivery partner, governments that need programme management capacity, and international NGOs working in West Africa.

Programme design, from concept note to full proposal
Programme implementation unit set-up and management
Grant and sub-recipient management
National rollouts of diagnostics and surveillance systems
Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning
Senior programme leadership placements

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Laboratory scientist carrying out quality control

Healthcare quality and standards

We help hospitals, health insurers and manufacturers put international standards into daily practice, using our AIHSDF™ framework to connect each standard to patient outcomes.

For private hospitals, HMOs, laboratories and medical device manufacturers.

ISO 7101 readiness assessments and gap reports
Quality improvement roadmaps
Patient safety and clinical governance
In-house training for clinical and management teams

We are introducing this service in stages, starting with ISO 7101. Support for laboratory, medical device and sterilisation standards will follow.

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The AIHSDF™ framework

Our Integrated Healthcare Service Delivery Framework links six domains of care to the international standards behind them, with the patient journey at the centre.

Governance and healthcare qualityISO 7101

Patient-centred clinical careISO 7101

Diagnostics and laboratory servicesISO 15189

Medical devices and technologyISO 13485, ISO 14971

Device and patient safetyISO 10993, ISO 14155

Sterilisation and infection preventionISO 11135, ISO 11137, ISO 17665

The patient journey it follows

Access

Assess

Diagnose

Plan

Treat

Monitor

Discharge or refer

Follow up

Dr Emmanuel Agogo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

MBBS, MTropMed, MSc, FRCGP, HonMFPH, MIoD

A physician and global health executive with more than 25 years of leadership across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the United Kingdom. He helped build the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, led Resolve to Save Lives in Nigeria, and directed pandemic diagnostics work at FIND.

He has served as a WHO-engaged evaluator on Joint External Evaluations of the International Health Regulations, and co-chaired the diagnostics pillar of the WHO Interim Medical Countermeasures Network during the 2024 mpox emergency.

2025 to nowSecretary General, Technical Advisory CommitteeECOWAS Regional Centre for Disease Surveillance and Control

2023 to 2026Director, Pandemic ThreatsFIND, the global alliance for diagnostics

2020 to 2023Country DirectorResolve to Save Lives, Nigeria

2016 to 2019Deputy Director, Programme CoordinationNigeria Centre for Disease Control

“Standards into care. Care into outcomes.”