Professor
Adesegun O. Fatusi
BSc (Ife), MBChB (Ife), MPH (Hadassah), Cert. Pop. Leadership (U. Wash), FWACP, Ph.D. (Ibadan), FNAMed.
A Nigerian Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health, and an accomplished scholar, policy actor, academic leader and administrator who has served in leadership positions within the academia, international research and professional circles, and civil society.
He currently Chairs Nigeria’s National Adolescent Health Technical Working Group, and the Advisory Board of Global Early Adolescent Study – a longitudinal study of adolescents across five continents. He is a member of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Technical Advisory Group for WHO African Regional Office, and Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health. He has 102 peer-reviewed articles and 11 book chapters, with over 10,000 citations.
Professor
Adesegun O. Fatusi
BSc (Ife), MBChB (Ife), MPH (Hadassah), Cert. Pop. Leadership (U. Wash), FWACP, Ph.D. (Ibadan), FNAMed
A Nigerian Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health, and an accomplished scholar, policy actor, academic leader and administrator who has served in leadership positions within the academia, international research and professional circles, and civil society.
He currently Chairs Nigeria’s National Adolescent Health Technical Working Group, and the Advisory Board of Global Early Adolescent Study – a longitudinal study of adolescents across five continents. He is a member of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Technical Advisory Group for WHO African Regional Office, and Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health. He has 102 peer-reviewed articles and 11 book chapters, with over 10,000 citations.
Adesegun Olayiwola FATUSI is a Nigerian Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health who has served in leadership positions within academia, international development setting, and the civil society for over two decades. He is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Nigeria’s first specialized medical and health tertiary educational institution, the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, Ondo State. He was a Director of International Research with the Guttmacher Institute, New York before his appointment with UNIMED. He was a former Provost of the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He also served as the Director of the Institute of Public Health, Director of Population and Reproductive Health programme, and Head of the Department of Community Health at OAU. He was also the President of the Global Alumni Association of the College of Health Sciences, OAU from May 2017 to May 2021. He has been an honorary consultant with the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex since 2004 and served as the head of its Community Health Department from August 2004 to July 2007. He currently also serves as a Honorary Consultant to UNIMED Teaching Hospital , Ondo.
He previously worked as a Technical Adviser with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)’s programme in Nigeria from 1996 to 2001, and has served as a consultant to several agencies, including WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, World Bank, DFID and USAID over the last two decades. He has served as a Temporary Adviser to the WHO Headquarters on several occasions on adolescent health issues. He is currently a member of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization. He is also a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health, the immediate Vice-President (Sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association for Adolescent Health, and the Chair of the Advisory Board of the multi-country Global Early Adolescent Study coordinated by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and jointly funded by WHO, USAID and other donors.
He has previously served on the Governing Board, National University Commission (2013 – 2015) as well as the Management Board of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (2013 – 2017). He has initiated and led several academic partnerships including those involving OAU and following institutions/organisations: Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); some USAID Implementing Partners (MEASURE Evaluation, Management Sciences for Health [MSH], and Johns Snow Incorporated); UUnited Nations agencies (UNFPA, UNICEF, and WHO); and, West African Infectious Disease Institute. He was one of the co-initiators and foundation facilitators for the annual “Short Course on Adolescent Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries” hosted by LSHTM, with support from WHO Headquarters. He initiated and served as the pioneer Course Director for the Adolescent Health in sub-Saharan Africa short course hosted by OAU in partnership with WHO and UNFPA; the International Certificate Training in Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programmes jointly initiated by OAU and USAID/MEASURE Evaluation; and, the Health System Leadership & Management Course organised by OAU and USAID/MSH.
He is an accomplished teacher, mentor, and researcher, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and more than 55 Technical publications. He has an outstanding track record of grantsmanship: among others, his research team generated the highest amount of external research funds in OAU between 2006 and 2011– and 38.87% of the external research funds received by the University for that period. He has been instrumental to the funds that Nigeria received from the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) between 2014 and 2018 as he developed the Adolescent Health component of Nigeria’s 2014 proposal (for US$2 Million) and was the Team Lead for the development of the country’s 2017 proposal on HIV, Tuberculosis and Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (for US$346 Million).
He has served as the Lead Consultant for several national studies, including the National Study on School Health; National HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitude and Practices and School Health Survey; National AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey; National Obstetrics Care Study; Performance Factor Special Study on Reproductive and Child Health; and, the National Tuberculosis Quality of Care Study. He has also been engaged in many state-based studies including the WHO-funded Situation Analysis of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Care in Ondo State (2009), baseline study and evaluation of Ondo State “Abiye” programme (2012) and the Evaluation of the Ondo State adolescent and Youth-friendly initiative funded by the Ford Foundation (2014). He has served as Nigeria Country Lead/Principal Investigator for several multi-country studies in the field of adolescent health, including UNICEF’s LearningPlus Project; Tobacco Advertising and Global Youth Market Study funded by Bloomberg Foundation; the Global Early Adolescent Study; and the formative research for WHO’s Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) framework. He is also highly engaged with the civil society sector: he serves on the Board of over 10 youth and reproductive health-focused NGOs and supports a number of community-based health development initiatives in Lagos, Ogun, and Osun States.
He is a leading policy actor within the health and adolescent youth development sectors in Nigeria and beyond. Among others, he has served as the Chair of Nigeria’s National Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Development since 2006. He is also a member of the Population Advisory Group for Nigeria’s new National Policy on Population and Development. He has also served as the lead consultant for the development of several national policy and programme documents on adolescent health, including the
- National Policy on the Health & Development of Adolescent and Young Persons (in 2005-2006 and in 2018/19);
- National Strategic Plan on the Health and Development of Adolescent and Young Persons (in 2007/2008);
- National Action Plan for Advancing the Health of Adolescents in Nigeria (in 2010);
- National Adolescent Health Training Manuals (in 2001 and 2011/2012);
- National Guidelines for the integration of Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services into Primary Health Care facilities (in 2013);
- National Guidelines on Promoting Access of Young people to Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly Services in Primary Health Care Facilities (in 2013); and, the
- National Standards and Minimum Service Package for Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services (2013, 2018). He was also the lead Consultant for the current National Youth Policy, and the Kaduna State Youth Policy and Strategic Plan.
He graduated from OAU in 1987 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree, and with distinction in Community Health and the Lawrence Omole Award for the best graduating student in Community Health. He won the Federal Government of Nigeria award for the best candidate in Part I examination of the Faculty of Public Health, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1992. He also earned his Masters of Public Health degree from the Hebrew University, Hadassah, Israel, in 1995 with summa cum laude honours and as the best graduating student. He obtained the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in Community Health in October 1995. He also has a Ph.D. degree in Public Health from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He previously served as the Training Coordinator of the Faculty of Community Health of the West African College of Physicians, and a member of the Strategic Plan Implementation Committee for the College. He was a Packard-Gates Population Leadership Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA between 2001 and 2002 and a Visiting Scholar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA in 2007. He was recently elected into the Fellowship of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine.
Adesegun Olayiwola FATUSI is a Nigerian Professor of Community Medicine and Public Health who has served in leadership positions within academia, international development setting, and the civil society for over two decades. He is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Nigeria’s first specialized medical and health tertiary educational institution, the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, Ondo State. He was a Director of International Research with the Guttmacher Institute, New York before his appointment with UNIMED. He was a former Provost of the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He also served as the Director of the Institute of Public Health, Director of Population and Reproductive Health programme, and Head of the Department of Community Health at OAU. He was also the President of the Global Alumni Association of the College of Health Sciences, OAU from May 2017 to May 2021. He has been an honorary consultant with the OAU Teaching Hospitals Complex since 2004 and served as the head of its Community Health Department from August 2004 to July 2007. He currently also serves as a Honorary Consultant to UNIMED Teaching Hospital , Ondo.
He previously worked as a Technical Adviser with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)’s programme in Nigeria from 1996 to 2001, and has served as a consultant to several agencies, including WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, World Bank, DFID and USAID over the last two decades. He has served as a Temporary Adviser to the WHO Headquarters on several occasions on adolescent health issues. He is currently a member of the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the African Regional Office of the World Health Organization. He is also a member of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health, the immediate Vice-President (Sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association for Adolescent Health, and the Chair of the Advisory Board of the multi-country Global Early Adolescent Study coordinated by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and jointly funded by WHO, USAID and other donors.
He has previously served on the Governing Board, National University Commission (2013 – 2015) as well as the Management Board of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (2013 – 2017). He has initiated and led several academic partnerships including those involving OAU and following institutions/organisations: Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); some USAID Implementing Partners (MEASURE Evaluation, Management Sciences for Health [MSH], and Johns Snow Incorporated); UUnited Nations agencies (UNFPA, UNICEF, and WHO); and, West African Infectious Disease Institute. He was one of the co-initiators and foundation facilitators for the annual “Short Course on Adolescent Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries” hosted by LSHTM, with support from WHO Headquarters. He initiated and served as the pioneer Course Director for the Adolescent Health in sub-Saharan Africa short course hosted by OAU in partnership with WHO and UNFPA; the International Certificate Training in Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health Programmes jointly initiated by OAU and USAID/MEASURE Evaluation; and, the Health System Leadership & Management Course organised by OAU and USAID/MSH.
He is an accomplished teacher, mentor, and researcher, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and more than 55 Technical publications. He has an outstanding track record of grantsmanship: among others, his research team generated the highest amount of external research funds in OAU between 2006 and 2011– and 38.87% of the external research funds received by the University for that period. He has been instrumental to the funds that Nigeria received from the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) between 2014 and 2018 as he developed the Adolescent Health component of Nigeria’s 2014 proposal (for US$2 Million) and was the Team Lead for the development of the country’s 2017 proposal on HIV, Tuberculosis and Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (for US$346 Million).
He has served as the Lead Consultant for several national studies, including the National Study on School Health; National HIV/AIDS Knowledge, Attitude and Practices and School Health Survey; National AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey; National Obstetrics Care Study; Performance Factor Special Study on Reproductive and Child Health; and, the National Tuberculosis Quality of Care Study. He has also been engaged in many state-based studies including the WHO-funded Situation Analysis of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Care in Ondo State (2009), baseline study and evaluation of Ondo State “Abiye” programme (2012) and the Evaluation of the Ondo State adolescent and Youth-friendly initiative funded by the Ford Foundation (2014). He has served as Nigeria Country Lead/Principal Investigator for several multi-country studies in the field of adolescent health, including UNICEF’s LearningPlus Project; Tobacco Advertising and Global Youth Market Study funded by Bloomberg Foundation; the Global Early Adolescent Study; and the formative research for WHO’s Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) framework. He is also highly engaged with the civil society sector: he serves on the Board of over 10 youth and reproductive health-focused NGOs and supports a number of community-based health development initiatives in Lagos, Ogun, and Osun States.
He is a leading policy actor within the health and adolescent youth development sectors in Nigeria and beyond. Among others, he has served as the Chair of Nigeria’s National Technical Working Group on Adolescent Health and Development since 2006. He is also a member of the Population Advisory Group for Nigeria’s new National Policy on Population and Development. He has also served as the lead consultant for the development of several national policy and programme documents on adolescent health, including the National Policy on the Health & Development of Adolescent and Young Persons (in 2005-2006 and in 2018/19); National Strategic Plan on the Health and Development of Adolescent and Young Persons (in 2007/2008); National Action Plan for Advancing the Health of Adolescents in Nigeria (in 2010); National Adolescent Health Training Manuals (in 2001 and 2011/2012); National Guidelines for the integration of Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services into Primary Health Care facilities (in 2013); National Guidelines on Promoting Access of Young people to Adolescent- and Youth-Friendly Services in Primary Health Care Facilities (in 2013); and, the National Standards and Minimum Service Package for Adolescent and Youth-Friendly Health Services (2013, 2018). He was also the lead Consultant for the current National Youth Policy, and the Kaduna State Youth Policy and Strategic Plan.
He also led the development of the following sexual and reproductive health policy documents: National Policy on HIV/AIDS 2010-2015 (in 2009); Revised National Reproductive Health Policy (in 2009/10); National Strategic Framework on HIV/AIDS (in 2009 and 2017); Integrated National Reproductive, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) + Nutrition Strategy (in 2018); RMNCAH Quality of Care Strategy (in 2018); He was a member of the expert team that developed Nigeria’s Health Sector Reform Programme in 2004, the extant National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development, and the 2016 National Health Policy. He led the development of Ghana’s Modular Course in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in 2016 and Namibia’s National Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in 2018.
He graduated from OAU in 1987 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree, and with distinction in Community Health and the Lawrence Omole Award for the best graduating student in Community Health. He won the Federal Government of Nigeria award for the best candidate in Part I examination of the Faculty of Public Health, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1992. He also earned his Masters of Public Health degree from the Hebrew University, Hadassah, Israel, in 1995 with summa cum laude honours and as the best graduating student. He obtained the Fellowship of the West African College of Physicians in Community Health in October 1995. He also has a Ph.D. degree in Public Health from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He previously served as the Training Coordinator of the Faculty of Community Health of the West African College of Physicians, and a member of the Strategic Plan Implementation Committee for the College. He was a Packard-Gates Population Leadership Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA between 2001 and 2002 and a Visiting Scholar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA in 2007. He was recently elected into the Fellowship of the Nigerian Academy of Medicine.