Shakira Bashir
Faculty Lead — Quality Management & Patient Safety
Abuja, Nigeria
Profile
Shakira Bashir is a public health practitioner and healthcare quality architect with over a decade of experience making health systems work better. A pharmacist by training, with triple certification in project management, healthcare quality, and patient safety, she brings a rare mix of clinical depth and systems thinking to complex problems across supply chain management, quality management, process improvement, and accreditation readiness.
She works with individuals, teams, and organisations across sectors to design solutions that are practical, context-sensitive, and built to last. A skilled facilitator, copywriter, and sought-after speaker, she translates complexity into clarity and designs capacity-building experiences that deliver real, measurable impact.
Role at TAC
Shakira has served as Quality Management and Patient Safety lead at The Arete Connoisseurs, where she anchors the firm’s quality improvement and patient safety practice. She supports the development of comprehensive patient safety programmes and quality improvement initiatives across client organisations, leads multidisciplinary teams of quality specialists and patient safety officers, and directs root cause analysis investigations that turn incidents into durable preventive action.
Her work spans the full accreditation arc TAC is built around: developing evidence-based safety protocols and quality standards aligned with international best practice, leading internal audits and inspections, providing strategic quality and patient safety updates at Board level, and supporting healthcare accreditation bodies in standards development and review. She was a key contributor to achieving and maintaining Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation for a leading tertiary hospital — front-line evidence of TAC’s accreditation-preparedness capability.
Signature Experience
Quality Management & Patient Safety, The Arete Connoisseurs. designs and implements patient-safety and QI programmes, leads RCA investigations and preventive-action planning, runs internal audits, and reports quality and patient-safety performance to boards.
JCI accreditation delivery. a key player in achieving and maintaining Joint Commission International accreditation for a leading tertiary hospital through rigorous compliance management and evidence-based standard implementation.
Lead Associate, Quality Improvement / Patient Safety, Mesites Consulting. led clinical-audit and quality-enhancement programmes across multiple healthcare facilities; developed and monitored compliance with clinical guidelines and standards; trained staff at every organisational level; and coordinated with regulatory bodies during inspections and audits.
Technical Associate, Pharmacy & Supply Chain, APIN Public Health Initiatives (PEPFAR/CDC-funded). built documentation systems for regulatory compliance and supported the transition of 6,200+ adult and paediatric patients to updated HIV/AIDS treatment regimens across 24 sites in six months.
Associate Pharmacy Officer, Howard University Global Initiative Nigeria (SIDHAS / FHI360). established pharmacovigilance committees across 20+ facilities and helped devolve 1,500+ patients into a community-pharmacy ARV refill programme across 115+ community pharmacies in Lagos State.
Facilitation, training & communication. a sought-after facilitator and speaker who designs capacity-building experiences and translates complex quality and safety concepts into clear, practical learning — directly relevant to TAC’s assessor and surveyor training.
Credentials
- Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) — Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) — National Association for Healthcare Quality
- Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute
- Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm) — University of Lagos
- Foundations of Healthcare Quality Management (World Bank Group); Lean & Improvement Fundamentals (NHS England); IHI Open School certifications
- Based in Abuja, Nigeria
Beyond TAC
A committed mental-health advocate, Shakira has led community initiatives advancing mental-health awareness. A lifelong learner with a love for the arts, she finds equal inspiration in literature, writing, nature photography, and music.
What Shakira brings to TAC’s clients
Shakira’s distinctive contribution is the rare combination of pharmaceutical and supply-chain depth, certified quality-and-patient-safety practice, and project-management discipline — applied to the unglamorous, decisive work of making safe, compliant care reproducible. For TAC’s regulator and institutional clients, she is the practitioner who can establish a patient-safety programme, drive an organisation through JCI-level accreditation, and leave behind a culture of incident reporting and continuous improvement that outlasts the engagement.