Dr. Chibuzo Opara

CEO at Drugstoc Ehub Ltd

Speaker

Dr Chibuzo Opara is the co-founder and CEO of DrugStoc, a Pharmatech platform that provides access to verified quality pharmaceutical and healthcare products for healthcare facilities and pharmacies. DrugStoc is focused on eliminating counterfeit and substandard drugs, expanding access to pharmaceutical products for healthcare providers, and improving transparency in pricing for the healthcare product supply chain at the last mile.

Chibuzo is a health economist with a clinical background and over 20 years of experience in the health sector. He has worked with the World Health Organisation, the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, the European Development Fund, and the Sovereign Wealth Fund among other institutions in the fields of healthcare finance and supply chain management. His work experience spans across different aspects of the healthcare system and several countries including the Netherlands, Nigeria, Belgium, Switzerland, Cameroun, Liberia, Kenya, and Vietnam.

During this time, he built up extensive experience in systems management for primary healthcare, including supply chain logistics and data management, healthcare financing, human resource planning, task shifting, health tech, and health facility management within the private and public sectors.

In the last few years, he has focused his energy, time, and passion on expanding access to good quality pharmaceutical and healthcare products leveraging the DrugStoc platform, which he cofounded, to leapfrog infrastructure challenges within the healthcare system. He holds degrees in medicine & surgery and economics, policy, and management from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.