Dr. Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Dr. Nwando Olayiwola is a family physician, public health professional, the Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. Her role is to support the Center in achieving strategic objectives around primary care transformation and systems redesign regionally, nationally and internationally. Prior to this, Dr. Olayiwola served as the Chief Medical Officer the largest community health center in Connecticut. She has been a leader in harnessing technology to increase access to care for underserved populations and is an expert in the areas of health disparities, women’s health and primary care redesign. She is also the founder of GIRLTALK, Inc., a program to prevent HIV/AIDS in minority adolescent females in high risk areas. Dr. Olayiwola is an avid writer, and has written numerous scholarly peer-reviewed articles, blogs, poems, literary fiction pieces and a novel, Half Woman. She is currently developing two series on motherhood: Doctor Mom, which is a poignant look at the experiences of physician and other professional mothers, and Yin-Yang Mothers, which looks at the dichotomies of the motherhood experience. She has been a national spokesperson for Recess RocksTM campaign to prevent childhood obesity and Text4BabyTM, an international program to support healthy pregnancy through text messaging.

She received her B.S from The Ohio State University, Summa Cum Laude and With Distinction and her M.D from The Ohio State University/Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She completed her residency in family medicine at Columbia University, where she was a Chief Resident. She received her MPH in Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow and Presidential Scholar.