CHAMPS Nigeria – Bauchi State
About Our Work
CHAMPS Nigeria–Bauchi joined the Network in 2023 and completed its first MITS in 2025. The program operates in the urban city of Bauchi and the rural Ganjuwa Local Government Area. The CHAMPS Bauchi program is implemented through Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in close collaboration with the Bauchi State Ministry of Health, which provides strong leadership and operational support across all workstreams.
Our Impact
CHAMPS Nigeria in Bauchi State drives transformative change in child health by advancing data-driven policies, enhancing maternal and child health surveillance, and strengthening healthcare facilities with cutting-edge diagnostics. Through collaboration with WHO, the Bauchi State Ministry of Health, and other partners, CHAMPS fosters sustainable improvements in child health outcomes and access to care.
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Meet our Directors
Dr. Muhammad Faruk Bashir is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi, Nigeria and a Chief Consultant in Pediatric Endocrinology at the affiliated teaching hospital, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) Bauchi. With over a decade of teaching, practicing and research in Pediatrics, he has 37 peer-reviewed journal article publications in different aspects of pediatrics with particular focus on childhood diabetes, malnutrition, and vaccine preventable diseases.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Bashir has served as the Principal Investigator for several critical disease surveillance projects, including those on Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis Rotavirus, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome. The findings from these projects have played a vital role and supported policy changes, such as the inclusion of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines into the routine immunization schedule in Nigeria.
Served as the Mortality Surveillance Team Lead that helped in laying the foundation for establishing Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Project at ATBU Bauchi, and in August 2024 became the Principal Investigator of the site. In this expanded role, he now oversees all aspects of the project, from community engagement, public health advocacy to data collection and analysis as part of a global effort to better understand and reduce childhood mortality through data-driven interventions.
Lamaran Dattijo is an Obstetrician with more than two decades of progressive experience in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) within the Nigerian healthcare system. His expertise extends across the spectrum of Maternal, Reproductive, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH). Dr. Dattijo has been actively involved in clinical care, research, training, policy formulation, and advocacy in maternal and child health, thereby impacting health policy and establishing guidelines to improve access to quality services at national and sub-national levels.
He has a medical degree from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and possesses a Master’s degree in Reproductive Health from the University of Sydney in Australia.
Dr. Dattijo is committed to advancing health equity and social justice, envisioning a Nigeria where every woman and child may have fair, high-quality health services, therefore rendering preventable maternal and child fatalities a relic of the past.
Key Partners
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