Oluwamayowa Adepeju Salu

Oluwamayowa Adepeju Salu has over five years’ experience working to eradicate malaria in Nigeria, especially in the rural areas. Oluwamayowa Adepeju Salu founded and runs The Iba Malaria Eradication Foundation, an NGO focused on eradicating malaria because of his childhood experience with the disease. Salu has distributed thousands of long-lasting insecticide treated nets and anti-malarial drugs, has built a malaria mobile app available in the Google Play Store, and has published a malaria comic book (currently in English) that will be translated into four major African languages and distributed all over Sub-Saharan Africa to reach millions of African children. Salu has won many local and international awards for his malaria work and is a Carrington Youth Fellow and a Social Entrepreneur Transforming Africa Fellow. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, he plans to innovate more effective programs to combat malaria.