Babafemi Afolabi Adebola

Babafemi Afolabi Adebola is a physician providing health care services to underserved populations, especially children of low-income earners and young people. Babafemi Afolabi Adebola combines his medical practice with over five years’ experience in sensitization and outreach programs to bridge the gap in access to satisfactory health care delivery. Currently, he works at Lagos University Teaching Hospital as an emergency care medical officer and consults for an online medical platform, HiDoctor. In his community, he coordinates a young people’s health advocacy group, BeAware, focusing mainly on reproductive health and challenges. Babafemi holds bachelor’s degrees in Medicine and Surgery from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he served as president of the medical students’ association. Upon completion of the Fellowship, Babafemi plans to focus on health policymaking, proffering pragmatic solutions and ideas that would enable improved equity and equality of access to health care in Nigeria. He also plans to expand his advocacy group.