Fiona Fleming

Fiona M. Fleming is an epidemiologist with a background in the control of infectious diseases. With over 18 years’ experience of working in Africa, she has been with Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) since 2005 facilitating the delivery of over 200 million treatments for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. Prior to her time with SCI, Fiona lived and worked in Uganda for four years managing a programme for Restless Development which focussed on bottom-up sustainable health and agricultural activities in rural populations. Subsequently, Fiona worked with the Sabin Institute’s Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative in Minas Gerais, Brazil. As a senior programme manager with SCI, Fiona assisted Ministries of Health in sub-Saharan Africa with their national schistosomiasis and STH, and latterly, integrated Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) control programmes. Fiona now leads the design, planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities across all SCI programme areas. This involves monitoring impact, process, and performance, in addition to economic and social impacts, to ensure that country MoH partners objectives are being achieved in line with WHO global targets. She is involved in multi-disciplinary operational research which focuses on identifying efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, and the accessibility and acceptability of current NTD control programs in Africa. Fiona has been the successful recipient of grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Comic Relief.