Dr. Muyiwa Oladosun

Muyiwa Oladosun obtained his PhD from Pennsylvania State University, USA, in Rural Sociology & Demography in December 1999, and MA in population and Social Research from Mahidol University, Thailand in July 2003. He joined Covenant University, Ogun State, Nigeria, as Senior Lecturer with the Department of Economics & Development Studies in January 2015 (www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng). Between March 2006 and December, 2014, he worked as Managing Director/Principal Consultant at MiraMonitor Consulting Limited headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria (www.cficnig.com). To date, he is still a consultant with the organization. He was a Research Officer with Population Services International (PSI), Washington DC, between November 1999 and May 2002, and Senior Research Associate with The Guttmacher Institute, New York between June 2002 and May 2003. Core substantive areas of interest include HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Family Planning, Malaria Prevention, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), and Census Implementation. Since joining academic, he had taought courses in; monitoring and evaluation, research methods, population studies, rural sociology, and population and socioeconomic development. Aside academics, his career part has been in the human and social development arena where he has substantial work experience cutting across several countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe where he provided technical assistance specifically on research, monitoring and evaluation of development projects. Since 2003, he has provided technical assistance, and conducted baseline, mid-term, and end-line evaluations on over 30 projects. Key clients worked with include Global Health Technical Assistance Project, USAID/Nigeria, EU, FHI, FHI/360, Catholic Relief Services, World Bank, ECORYS| and SOFRECO in France, and several Ministries, Department & Agencies in Nigeria among others. He was one of the team of experts that conducted end-line evaluation of the PEPFAR Track I.0 OVC projects in 15 countries. He was one of the EU Senior Experts for the 2006 Nigeria Census. He conducted 16-months operations research on an OVC project for Africare/Management Sciences for Health in Nigeria. He is a member of Population Association of America (PAA), American Public Health Association (APHA), and America Evaluation Association (AEA) among others.