Murtala Mai is chief of country and program strategy at Pathfinder International. He joined Pathfinder in 2002 as project manager of the Private Sector Family Planning & Reproductive Health project in northern Nigeria. He then served as a country representative in Nigeria and Ghana before joining the Evidence to Action Project as senior technical adviser for community-based services. He later became E2A’s director of field support and then senior program director.
Planning for the next pandemic requires a mindset shift, moving away from trying to fix the problem at hand and toward preventing the problem by building community resilience.