Adesegun Fatusi

Professor of Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University

Adesegun Fatusi is a Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health and previously the Provost, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Director of the University’s Bill and Melinda Gates/ Johns Hopkins University supported Institute of Public Health. In addition to his work in academia, he also serves as Founder and Principal Fellow of the Academy for Health Development (AHEAD), an organization focused on building health systems through capacity building and research.

Adesegun is a respected healthcare policy leader, having worked as the Chair of Nigeria’s National Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health & Development and on the Ministerial Committee on Health Sector Reform in Nigeria. He has also worked as lead consultant in developing national policies on Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Adolescent Health.

He obtained his undergraduate and postgraduate medical degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University with prizes in Public Health and received a Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree from the Hebrew University in Hadassah, Jerusalem.