About Dr. Omarley Yeabah
Dr. Trokon Omarley Yeabah is Coordinator of the Disease Surveillance Information System Unit at the National Public Health Institute of Liberia. With over nine years of experience in integrated disease surveillance and response, he also oversees the technical implementation of 7-1-7 in Liberia—training over 150 surveillance officers and public health professionals at the subnational level and leading the real-time documentation of over 100 public health events, strengthening accountability and evidence-based decision-making across the country.
Why he’s nominated
In his role at the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, Trokon O’Yeabah has demonstrated the kind of innovative, practical thinking that transforms how health systems use data. His development of a 7-1-7 dashboard—now capturing events in real-time and embedded into regular Early Action Reviews meetings and year-round planning processes—has given Liberia’s public health leadership a powerful new tool for accountability and decision-making. In building a system that turns outbreak data into actionable insights, he has made a lasting contribution to Liberia’s outbreak response capacity.