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Bisi Bright is the 1st Vice Chairman and CEO of LiveWell Initiative LWI, a health promotion non-governmental organization which focuses on reducing health illiteracy and improving life expectancy. The NGO, which runs its own Academy, the LWI Academy with slogan…’living well by design’, has reached out to over 1 million Nigerians, 3,000 Ghanaians and other Africans with a view to reaching out to the whole world. The organization recently got an endorsement from the United States Consulate General in Nigeria, for its commendable effort in the area of public health and its immunization access and grassroots health empowerment programmes.
‘Bisi has carved out her niche in her ability to deliver health and wellness talks in simple language formats and in her mentoring of young professionals. Her organization LiveWell Initiative LWI recently trained and graduated 7 officers at the prestigious LBS (Lagos Business School) EDC (Enterprises Development Centre). LiveWell Initiative collaborates with various local, national and international organizations. Although self-sustaining, the organization is expanding its non-profit activities to the international frontiers by engaging internees and exchange students from various healthcare fields. To achieve its organizational goal of ‘halving’ health illiteracy by the year 2030, LWI introduces newer innovative programmes into the social space, every quarter.
‘Bisi is a Board Member of the Federal Tertiary Health Institution in Azare, Bauchi and Member of the National Health Promotion Committee of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. She also serves as the Africa/Middle East Rep of the FIP PI Exco (International Pharmaceutical Federation), Member of the Working Group on Maternal Newborn and Child Health MNCH of the FIP, and, served on ‘Patients As Partners Working Group’ of the FIP as Member, from 2008 to 2010, and is currently a member of the IAPO, CPA and APhA. She is a two-time international membership award winner of the IATDM/CT and she has published over 80 articles, some of which are in peer-reviewed journals.
‘Bisi serves as the Assistant General Secretary of the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria where her well-length reservoir of experience has added tremendous value to the private health care industry in general.
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below are files that can be downloaded from the HFN website. Some of the files require member login to download.
HFN Official Documents
- HFN Corporate Profile
- HFN Memorandum and Article Of Association
- HFN Invitation to a parley with Vice President Yemi Osibanjo
HFN Meeting Minutes
- 2013 Meeting Minutes
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Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, outgoing vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan was sworn in Wednesday 11/11/15 as Nigeria’s health minister. Prof. Adewole is the 11th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan since it attained the status of an Independent University Institution in 1962, having hitherto been a College of the University of London from 1948 – 1962. Prior to his appointment as Vice Chancellor, Adewole was a member of Council and the Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine. He succeeded Professor Olufemi Bamiro, FNSE, FAS whose tenure as Vice-Chancellor expired on Tuesday, 30 November, 2010. A Professor at the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria since 1997, Isaac Adewole is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan. He is also an adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, Chicago, ILlinois, USA.
Born on 05 May, 1954, Prof. Adewole attended Ilesa Grammar School from 1966 – 1972 where he obtained Grade I with distinction in 1970 and the Higher School Certificate in 1972 in the same school where he made AAC in the three Science subjects he offered. He enrolled as a National Award Scholar at the University of Ibadan in 1973 and obtained his MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan in 1978 with the Glaxo Allenbury prize for the best performance in Paediatrics. He joined the services of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a Senior House Officer in 1981 and underwent further medical training to become a Senior Registrar in the Department in 1984. He then travelled to the UK for a Research Fellowship in the Department of Medical Oncology at Charing Cross Hospital in London. Professor Adewole was appointed Lecturer I at the College of Medicine in the University of Ibadan in 1989. He was prompted Senior Lecturer in 1995 and Professor in 1997. He was Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Sciences and Dentistry (2000 – 2002), before becoming a Provost of the College of Medicine from 2002 to 2006.
Professor Adewole is Director of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV Project at UCH, Chairman of the PMTCT National Task Team Subcommittee on anti-retrovirals for the PMTCT of HIV and the country’s Principal Investigator for ‘Operation Stop Cervical Cancer’ in Nigeria. Secretary-General of the Confederation of African Medical Associations and Societies (CAMAS) from 1997-2003, Professor Adewole holds memberships of many learned societies, including the Nigerian Medical Association, the Society of Gynaecology & Obstetrics of Nigeria, the European Research Organisation on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN), and the International Network on Control of Gynaecological Cancers.
In a publication by New Telegraph, Professor Isaac was described as a great scholar and erudite administrator. He is the only Nigerian Professor appointed as member of council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, an association that represents 535 universities from 37 Commonwealth countries. In recognition of his outstanding research and expertise in the area of cancer, he was appointed to serve as member of the International advisory board of "African Cancer institute", a comprehensive cancer center in sub- Saharan black Africa.
On May 5, 2014, he celebrated his 60th birthday and a public lecture was held at the International Conference Centre of the University of Ibadan. The lecture recalled how traducers tried relentlessly to sabotage his appointment as the Vice Chancellor of the institution in 2010.The Chairman of the 60th birthday celebration was Wole Olanipekun a legal luminary, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and past Pro-Chancellor of the University. He described Professor Isaac as a "cat not only with nine lives, but one with 18 lives, who surmounted all the travails and conspiratorial petitions hatched against him by his traducers."
In 2012, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, the apex academic organization in Nigeria. He was inducted into the academy, alongside with Professor Mojeed Olayide Abass, a Nigerian Professor of Computer science at the University of Lagos and Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun, the President of the West African College of Surgeons and former Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
In 2014, he was appointed as Member Governing Council, Adeleke University and on June 2015 he was appointed as Member, Governing Council, Pan-African University, a post-graduate training and research network of university nodes in five regions, supported by the African Union. On March 28, he was appointed as Independent National Electoral Commission's Collation Officer in Lagos State for the Nigerian general election, 2015 and on April 11, he served as Returning Officer for Lagos State gubernatorial election.
A leading advocate for nationwide access to cervical cancer screening, Professor Adewole is also involved with advocacy work designed to reduce the burden of unsafe abortions in Nigeria and is the Coordinator of the Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy. His current research interests include evaluating novel ideas for promoting cervical cancer screening in developing countries, a multi-country study on HPV in cervical cancer among African women and evaluating attitudes of HIV positive pregnant women to contraception and couple counselling. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on gynaecological oncology, abortion, HIV/AIDS and perinatal medicine.
He has delivered many guest lectures, numerous communications at scientific conferences, abstracts and poster presentations and has published over 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books on gynaecological oncology, abortion, HIV/AIDS and perinatal medicine. A widely travelled man, he has attended over 100 scientific conferences and workshops. He is the Guttmacher Institute’s 2008 Bixby Leadership Fellow in Reproductive Health, President Elect of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) and the current Chair of the sub-saharan African Cervical Cancer Working Group (CCWG). He is a Patron of the Boys Brigade of Nigeria and he chaired the National Task Team on prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.
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PRESS RELEASE: HEALTHCARE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Written by Super UserThe world is witnessing unprecedented devastation being caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic to healthcare systems around the world, and as Nigerians we can only imagine the threat it poses to our fragile healthcare system if we do not collectively band together to mount a defence against its spread.
While we applaud the efforts of the National Centre for Disease Control in its initial response to the outbreak of the Virus in Nigeria, the Healthcare Federation of Nigeria and its coalition of partners are poised to assist the various government agencies and public sector apparatus by providing a coordinated private sector response that works in concert to curtail, contain and terminate the effect of the Coronavirus in Nigeria.
Healthcare Federation of Nigeria as an umbrella body for private sector healthcare Business organizations in Nigeria, supported by the IFC- World Bank, PharmAccess and other multilateral organizations, has over 40,000 healthcare professionals in our network. Based on our robust composition, we have a wide reach in the healthcare industry. Our Federation has the enormous advantage of being able to mobilize and deploy human resources and critical equipment needed for early detection of symptoms and effective containment of infectious diseases to prevent further spread.
Members of the HFN EXCO have already sprang into action to determine how we can support both the federal and state government apparatus to fight against COVID-19. The first step was an initial brainstorm session with the DG NCDC on Wednesday March 25th 2020. He outlined the immediate needs of his agency:
- Setting up more accredited test centres
- Detection of infected and exposed persons, and proper isolation centres
- Treatment with right medicines and equipment including use of existing ventilators with approved manpower
- Simple communication tools to reach all citizens especially the grassroots
In order to support the government, HFN would like to solicit support from our members and identify those who have the capacity to support. Kindly indicate by contacting our Secretariat indicating the nature of support you are willing to provide:
- Provision of World Class Laboratories as additional testing sites across the country.
- Provision of healthcare Human Resources for treatment and testing centres.
- Training of manpower including Respiratory Physicians, Nurses, Anaesthetics and ancillary staff to handle the disease.
- Provision of Infrastructure, Medical Equipment and pharmaceutical products leveraging existing supply chains in the private sector space for rapid deployment.
- Grass root information dissemination in Behavioural Change through Social Media, Radio, Telecom platforms.
- Provision of Remote Consulting leveraging the Telemedicine Platforms already in existence in the private sector
- Provision and Coordination of Contact Call Centres leveraging the existing capacities in private sector organizations. This will lessen the burden of information dissemination presently on the NCDC
The HFN has collaborated with the Lagos state Government in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. They have supported the government to develop and launch several Isolation centres and Intensive Care Units. Some of these coalitions include the recent YPO-Lagos– Covid 19 Response and the COCAVID coalition.
We must also commend the efforts of CBN and all the federal agencies who have reacted swiftly to facilitate access to finance to healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical value chain and medical devices providers, import duty waivers for drugs and medical equipment and duty concessions, to create an enabling environment for private sector to support this effort. We believe that a concerted and unified approach from the private sector during this period will not only provide the right support for the government’s initiatives, but also prepare the ground work for future collaboration between the public and private sectors for the rapid development of the health sector in Nigeria.
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