Health systems,
by design.
Dr. Emmanuella Zamba — twenty-five years of public health leadership.
Specialist in universal health coverage, health financing, digital health, and public-private partnerships.
Permanent Secretary at LASHMA. Founder of EkoTelemed and the Dìde Foundation.
Building systems that hold.
Health systems architecture
Sector-wide planning, institutional reform, and the unglamorous work of making a ministry actually functional.
Universal health coverage
Scheme design, financing models, mandatory enrolment frameworks, and reaching the informal sector at scale.
Digital health & PPPs
State-led telemedicine, virtual booths, and the partnerships that make modern public health delivery possible.
Twenty-five years on universal health coverage.
Permanent Secretary at the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA). Founder of EkoTelemed — Nigeria's first state-owned telemedicine platform. Architect of the executive order that made health insurance mandatory in Lagos.
Thirty years of public service, advanced study at Harvard Business School and NIPSS, fellowships and awards across Africa — and a steady, growing body of peer-reviewed work on what actually moves health systems forward.
— Dr. Emmanuella Zamba
Insights.
View all →Forthcoming · Essay · 14 min
How Lagos cracked mandatory health insurance — and what it cost to get there.
A long, candid look at the executive order that took Lagos from voluntary, fragmented coverage to a UHC-leading state — and the political work behind it.
Read essay →
Forthcoming · Perspective · 8 min
EkoTelemed at five — lessons from scaling state telemedicine.
What worked, what didn’t, and why state-owned digital health infrastructure needs to outlive the politicians who launch it.
Read →
Forthcoming · Field note · 6 min
“Pay Small Small” — financing UHC for the informal sector.
A field note on the flexible-payment scheme designed to bring informal-sector residents into Lagos’s coverage system without breaking them.
Read →
Get in touch.
For advisory work, speaking enquiries, or other correspondence — the office is reachable below.
What I work on
- Health systems architecture
- Universal health coverage
- Digital health
- Public-private partnerships
- Executive coaching & board advisory