2021 Speakers
Muraina Kehinde
Muraina Kehinde is a Medical Laboratory Scientist by training from the University of Ibadan, a public health practitioner and social entrepreneur. He is a YALI West Africa Alumnus (Young African Leaders Initiative), a common Purpose fellow, an African Changemaker (Cohort 3), a Global Youth Ambassador and a 2-time YALI Network state coordinator for Oyo, Nigeria.
Kehinde is a great lover of design, innovation and technology. His love for creative and innovative ideas propelled him into solving a critical problem in the areas of efficient and effective emergency response services in Nigeria where he and a team of students prototyped a "Road Traffic Alert device which effectively reports all road accidents crashes in 30 seconds. This innovation emerged second place at the First ever hardware hackathon competition in Nigeria, Anambra (Hack4Good2017) and first place at the MIT Open Mic Africa, Lagos -2017.
In 2019, he was awarded a Design Fellowship by the renowned Co-Creation Hub sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in recognition as one of Africa's top 15 tech designers to be leading Human centered Designs and research in the area of Immunization and Maternal Mortality both in, Rwanda and Nigeria. In 2020, he emerged as one of the top 60 scholars in Africa to be selected for the inaugural NUTM Scholars class sponsored by the Mastercard Foundation.
He is also a candidate for a Master's in Public Health at the University of Bradford and University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Currently, Kehinde serves as an associate, project and programs designer at the Co-creation Hub, Nigeria where he supports the Public Health Team through management, consulting and advisory on Public Health initiatives.
Ndi Kato
Ndi Kato is a politician, activist and Executive Director of Dinidari Foundation.
Prof Mayowa Owolabi
Prof. Owolabi is a vascular neurologist and the first Regional Vice President of the World Federation for Neurorehabilitation (East, West and Central Africa). He is the pioneer director of the Centre for Genomic and Precision Medicine, University of Ibadan, and Lead Co-Chair World Stroke Organisation-Lancet Neurology Commission on stroke in developing countries. He has pioneered research into carotid atherosclerosis in Nigeria. He wrote the action plan for mapping Africa to prominence in Neurology and a recent review on taming the exploding scourge of stroke in Africa in which he proposes the 'stroke quadrangle*
He is among the top 2 percent of the world's scientists and is Dean of Faculty of Clinical Sciences at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
He wishes to make indelible impact and contributions to patient-centered and evidence-based neurology, particularly in the fields of vascular neurology, quality of life improvement, neurorehabilitation, genomic epidemiology, preventive neurology. cognitive neurology and the mind-brain conundrum, holistic medicine and translational neuroscience.
Dr Ikpeme Neto
Dr. Ikpeme Neto is an internal medicine physician turned health technology entrepreneur with business and healthcare experience spanning four continents. He left a thriving clinical practice as a doctor in 2015 to found companies and products that have gone on to improve the health and wellbeing of thousands of people on the continent.
His startup, Wellahealth, was in 2019 selected for and completed the prestigious Techstars accelerator programme in the United States of America. With several international awards to his name, Ikpeme is passionate about the power of individuals to effect lasting societal change via entrepreneurship. Initially an e-health startup focusing on pharmacy automation, WellaHealth now offers affordable healthcare coverage to protect families from the financial shock that comes from unexpected health emergencies.