Bright Chimezie Irem

Bright Chimezie Irem has over five years of experience in the emerging Nigerian Health Market with a special interest in need-based scalable innovative approaches. Bright Chimezie Irem uses private sector solutions for a public health pandemic as a deliberate effort to create a synergy that will shrink high mortality rates. He believes in addressing key breakdowns in the healthcare value chain that, if resolved, could provide high-quality low-cost life-saving healthcare supplies to those in need. Currently, Bright is the Founder/CEO of Afrtipharm Medicals Ltd, a Healthcare Optimization and Project Management Development organization, where he focuses on aligning business priorities with IT strategy, driving end-to-end integrated business solutions and team leadership towards delivering first-rate solutions. Bright holds a Harvard University Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Healthcare in Emerging Economies with a focus on enterprise-need-based mobile Health Information Systems (mHIS). Bright is driven by his passion and commitment towards tackling public healthcare challenges in Nigeria/and Africa using cost-effective IT initiatives with clear roadmaps based on locally generated data. Upon completion of Mandela Washington Fellowship, Bright plans to develop at least one Health-IT/Business-Incubator-Center (hIT/BIC) where Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Leaders can explore and share knowledge-based resources in tackling public healthcare.