About Dr. Ralph
Dr. Ralph W. Jetoh is a public health expert and physician with over ten years of experience in Liberia’s public health system. As Director of the Liberia Field Epidemiology Training Program and IHR focal person for Liberia, he has played a central role in strengthening the country’s disease surveillance, emergency preparedness, and One Health systems—including leading research on the adoption of 7-1-7 metrics across Liberia.
Why he’s nominated
Dr. Jetoh’s leadership of an operational research study on the 7-1-7 target has made a significant contribution to the evidence base for outbreak preparedness, becoming the first of the five Alliance-supported country studies to be published on Wellcome Open Research. The study delivers some of the clearest early learnings yet on what successful 7-1-7 adoption looks like in practice. In conducting and publishing this research, he and his team have shown that country-led evidence generation is not only possible but essential to the continued strengthening of 7-1-7.