Mojisola Odeku

Senior Program Officer, Policy Advocacy and Communication – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Health Working Group Co-Chair

Dr. Mojisola Odeku has been a longtime leader and champion in Nigeria’s reproductive health and health systems strengthening landscape 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, contraceptive logistic management, adolescent reproductive health and gender issues. She has experience developing 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 – 2009-2022) with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs, which envisioned scaling up proven family planning and reproductive health interventions. She has provided strategic direction as coordinator of the Government of Nigerian intervention projects in reproductive/maternal health with support from international foundations (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 groups in reproductive and population programs such as the International Council on Management of Population programs (ICOMP) , Advocacy Nigeria and the Association for Advancement of Family Planning in Nigeria(AAFP).