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 35+ years of experience. In her roles at the Federal Ministry of Health, as the former Head of the Reproductive Health Program, Dr Odeku focused on safe motherhood, family planning, contraceptive logistics 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 Gates Foundation-funded Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI – 2009-2022) with the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Communications Programs(JHUCCP), which envisioned scaling up proven family planning and reproductive health interventions and led a portfolio of scale-up interventions primed by JHUCCP. She has provided strategic direction as coordinator of the Government of Nigeria’s 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). In her role at the Gates Foundation, Seattle and Nigeria(2022-2025), she designed and managed innovative investments within the Policy Advocacy Communication workstream to deploy strategic country-level interventions in MNCH and Primary Health care at the last mile. 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). She chairs two NGO boards of trustees, namely Earth Blossoms Africa and RAPAC(a faith-based NGO), and serves as a member of a couple of other boards voluntarily. As a champion of systems strengthening for sustainability, she offers advisory and technical assistance to implementing partners and serves as a coach and mentor to a new generation of leaders within the public health community of practice.