Doyin Oluwole

Dr. Oluwole, MD, MRCP, FRCP (Pediatrics), is the founding Executive Director of Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute. Prior to assuming this role, she was the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Capacity Development at FHI360 and the Project Director for the Africa’s Health in 2010 project for six years. In that position, she managed a multi-million dollar project and empowered African institutions/governments to plan, manage and evaluate effective and tailored health programs, including maternal, newborn and child health, family planning, nutrition, infectious diseases, health systems strengthening and gender/gender-based violence. She has nurtured partnerships with a spectrum of African government, institutional, and donor partners.

Before Africa’s Health in 2010, Dr. Oluwole spent 25 years as a public health practitioner across Africa, including 10 years of management responsibility at the regional level and as a country WHO Representative. As the former Director of the Division of Family and Reproductive Health with the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO), she managed a team of more than 100 while providing strategic vision, outstanding leadership, and effective advocacy in developing and implementing significant regional reproductive, women’s and maternal/newborn health strategies, including a focus on community-based approaches for women’s, maternal, newborn, and child health and renewed efforts to address pediatric AIDS and PMTCT issues. Dr. Oluwole has been widely published and is a sought-after public speaker on topics ranging from newborn health to female genital mutilation to health systems strengthening. She began her career as a pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics in her native Nigeria. She holds an MD with Honors from the University of Lagos, and a Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP/Pediatrics) from University of Edinburgh/Royal College of Physicians in the UK, where she is also a Fellow.