Joseph Valadez is Professor of Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He has a DSc in Population Sciences and Global Health from Harvard University and a PhD in International Politics from Lancaster University, UK.
While a staff member of The World Bank he was the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the Global HIV/AIDS Programme and the Malaria Booster Program for Africa and provided M&E support to other areas of health sector. A community epidemiologist who has worked in more than 50 countries, including Kenya, where he was Director of Projects for the African Medical and Research Foundation, and Rwanda where he served as Senior Health Officer for UNICEF immediately after the genocide. There he helped the new Rwandan government develop a Ministry of Health and addressed priority health problems during their crisis period. He has deep practical experience in planning and managing national and sub-national health programs and monitoring and evaluation systems throughout Africa, Latin America, and South, Central and East Asia. As an epidemiologist and social scientist, he has advanced the development of rapid and practical programme monitoring and evaluation techniques that adapt quality control statistics as used in industry, for application in community health programmes. He pioneered the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling method during the mid-1980s while a member of the Harvard faculty. LQAS is now used internationally and recently LQAS has been integrated with cluster sampling for applications in large countries. He is currently testing AMR-LQAS as surveillance method to measure antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use and exploring relationships between antibiotic use by parents of children under 5 years of age and prescribing practices with antimicrobial resistance. Professor Valadez has also been prescient in using epidemiological and social science methods to expedite Health Facility Assessments for quality control of the treatment of sick children, and patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. He is interested in developing Programme M&E techniques that empower local managers to manage their programmes by using results. Recently, he developed a tool kit for UNICEF or Program M&E that local Public Health Officers can use to identify which interventions are priorities and need improvement which is accompanied by a set of training video for Africa and South Asia.
Currently, he supports the Government of the Republic of South Sudan establish its national monitoring and evaluation systems in every state and county to support local health system management. He also supports UNICEF to roll out LQAS methodology throughout sub-Saharan Africa to support its programme for integrated community case management, and to assess the effectiveness of Child Health Days.
He has authored 6 books including: J Hage, JJ Valadez, W Hadden, Saving Society from Within (Routledge, 2024); J Valadez, Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries: Testing Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (Harvard Press, 1991); H Guetzkow & JJ Valadez, Simulated International Processes: Theories and Research in Global Modelling (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1981); and JJ Valadez & M Bamberger, Monitoring and Evaluation Social Programs in Developing Countries (The World Bank, 1994),
