Short Bio
Excellence Anurika Joshua is a healthcare innovator, social impact strategist, and founder of Techy Train Incubator — an initiative that has trained over 10,000 African women and girls in income-generating digital skills. She currently works as a Program Analyst at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), strengthening Primary Health Care systems in Nigeria. With a Master’s in Development Engineering from UC Berkeley and PMP certification, she brings a unique blend of strategy, storytelling, and heart to her work at the intersection of health, gender, and economic opportunity.
Medium Bio
Excellence Anurika Joshua is a healthcare innovator, social impact strategist, and storyteller working at the intersection of health systems strengthening and women’s economic agency in Africa. She currently serves as a Program Analyst at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she works with a team focused on redesigning and strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC) performance management systems in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Excellence is also the founder of Techy Train Incubator, an initiative that has trained over 10,000 African women and girls across 35+ countries in practical, income-generating digital skills — equipping them for remote work, entrepreneurship, and economic independence.
She holds a Master’s in Development Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, with a concentration in healthcare transformations, and is a PMP-certified project manager with a passion for building systems that are both people-centered and data-driven.
A first-generation scholar, a single mom, and a firm believer in African-led solutions, Excellence uses her voice to advocate for smarter development practices, inclusive digital economies, and healthcare systems that truly work for women and underserved communities.
She speaks and writes frequently on topics including health equity, digital skills for economic growth, gender and development, project strategy, and the power of storytelling in system change.
Long Bio
Excellence Anurika Joshua is a healthcare innovator, systems thinker, and social impact strategist committed to building healthier, more equitable systems in Africa — especially for women, children, and underserved communities. Her work spans health systems strengthening, economic opportunity, gender equity, and the use of data and technology to drive sustainable, African-led development.
She currently serves as a Program Analyst with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she works with a team focused on redesigning the Primary Health Care (PHC) performance management system in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Her work involves building frameworks and capacity that help government health teams collect, analyze, and use data for better decision-making. She also develops and facilitates leadership, communication, and mentorship training for PHC supervisors to ensure these systems are not just technically sound — but also people-centered and sustainable.
Before joining CHAI, Excellence founded Techy Train Incubator (TTI) — a social impact initiative equipping young African women with income-generating digital skills that help them access remote work, freelance gigs, and entrepreneurship opportunities. Since launching in 2021, TTI has trained over 10,000 women and girls across 35+ African countries, with a core focus on practical, everyday digital skills such as virtual assistance, digital marketing, and online sales — skills that are often overlooked but vital to the digital economy.
Excellence holds a Master’s in Development Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on healthcare transformations and maternal and child health systems. She worked at the School of Public Health Dean’s Office, engaged in cross-functional research and project management, and collaborated with global public health experts to develop interventions tailored to low-resource settings. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and brings a strong results-driven, data-informed approach to every project she leads.
Her journey into health systems work began during the COVID-19 pandemic, while interning as a Medical Laboratory Scientist at the National Assembly Clinic in Nigeria. There, she witnessed firsthand how fragmented systems and poor resource allocation affected patient care, which sparked her drive to understand — and fix — the deeper structural challenges in health delivery across the continent.
Excellence’s work sits at the intersection of health, gender, tech, and impact. She is passionate about shifting the development narrative from charity to capacity — from “giving” to “building.” A proud first-generation scholar and single mother, she integrates her lived experiences into her leadership style, advocating for inclusive systems that serve real lives, not just policies.
She speaks frequently on topics including:
Health systems transformation in Africa
Primary healthcare performance management
Economic agency for African women
Gender-responsive innovation and digital inclusion
Project leadership and development strategy
Storytelling as a tool for system change
She’s known for delivering talks that are insightful, grounded, and heart-centered — combining data with lived experience, and global perspective with local nuance. Whether she’s speaking to students, policymakers, funders, or grassroots organizations, her goal remains the same: to inspire action, shift thinking, and build solutions that actually work.
