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Omokhudu Idogho has been appointed the managing director, Society for Family Health (SFH). This appointment took effect January 1, 2019, taking over from Bright Ekweremadu, who retired as managing director of SFH on December 31, 2018, after 14 years in the position.
Before this appointment, Omokhudu was the head of SFH’s Innovation Hub, focused on developing a sustainable community health financing ecosystem and Social Business model that brings the emerging Nigerian middle class and poor together in the quest for shared health and prosperity.
He also served as the programme director for DFID’s Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV&AIDS (ENR) Programme, one of the largest single country HIV programmes in the world.
Before joining SFH, Omokhudu worked with ActionAid International in South Africa as the Global HIV&AIDS programme coordinator overseeing ActionAid’s work in 22 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
He also worked as a Policy Advisor with ActionAid Alliance in Belgium focused on shaping policy making in European Union institutions.
His other positions included Health Advisor with WaterAid Nigeria in Benue State, and as a Medical Officer of Health at Izzi Local Government in present day Ebonyi State. Omokhudu trained as a Doctor at the University of Benin and has postgraduate qualifications in public policy and public health.
Society for Family Health is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation with interventions in various public health areas including child survival, malaria prevention and treatment, HIV & AIDS treatment and prevention, reproductive health, safe water systems, health and social system strengthening, cervical cancer and non-communicable disease.
