Mojisola Odeku
Nigeria
Gates Foundation
Dr. Mojisola Odeku, Senior Program Officer, Family Planning/Maternal, Newborn and Child Health/Primary Health Care, Program Advocacy and Communication, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Mojisola Odeku has been a longtime leader in the reproductive health landscape in Nigeria, and a veteran public health physician with 30+ years of experience. In her roles in the Federal Ministry of Health as the former Head of the Reproductive Health Program, Dr. Odeku focused on safe motherhood, family planning, including contraceptive logistic management, adolescent reproductive health and gender issues. She has experience with the development of strategic plans, policy guidelines, advocacy, research and contraceptive logistic management systems for reproductive health programs. Dr. Odeku was Project Director of Phases I and II of the Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI – 2009-2020) with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs, which had the vision of scaling up proven family planning and reproductive health interventions. She has provided strategic direction as coordinator of Government of Nigeria intervention projects in reproductive/maternal health with support from international foundations (Gates, MacArthur and Packard), multilateral agencies (UNFPA, UNICEF, World Bank and WHO) and bilateral agencies (USAID and JICA). Dr. Odeku also serves on the executive board of notable national and international NGOs working in reproductive and population programs such as International Council on Management of Population programs (ICOMP) and Advocacy Nigeria.