- By Halimah Olamide
A former Commissioner for Health under the administration of former Governor Rauf Aregbesola in Osun and daughter of Chief Bisi Akande, Dr. Temitope Ilori, has been named the new Director General of the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA).
A statement by Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the President on Media said The President expects the new Director-General to bring her wealth of experience and expertise into this seminal role to achieve the mandate of NACA.
Ilori is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Ibadan, and a consultant family physician at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
She obtained her MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan and had her residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. She is a fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West African College of Physicians, and won the A.O. Senbanjo Prize in 2012. She is also an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN).
Dr. Ilori has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Ibadan, and she is a PhD fellow in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
She was Commissioner for Health in Osun State from 2011 to 2014 and Chairperson of the Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS (O-SACA).
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