Onyedika Ekwerike

Onyedika Ekwerike has over three years’ experience in designing, planning and executing intervention programs. He is Founder and Executive Director of Postpartum Support Network Africa (PSN Africa), an organization set up in 2015 to raise awareness about postpartum depression and provide support to mothers suffering perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Onyedika is a Clinical Psychologist, he is a first class graduate of Psychology from Lagos State University and holds an MSc in Clinical Psychology from the University of Lagos. He is passionate about maternal mental health, and is keen on improving access to mental health care for mothers in Africa while he also aims to stamp out the stigma and dispel the myths associated with mental illnesses in Africa. His organization, PSN Africa, has educated and screened over one thousand mothers and presently provides support for mothers in four African countries. He looks forward to learning a lot during the fellowship, and to use the acquired knowledge to build his organization in order to help mothers across Africa.