Olajide Joseph Adebola

Dr. Olajide Joseph Adebola MBBS. MSc FAPH is a Global Digital Health/Health Systems/Business Leader and an Associate Chartered Project Manager from the Chartered Project Management Institute, International Academy of Management.  His career in eHealth/Digital Health/Public Health is over twenty years, focusing on Research and Evaluation in Digital Health, Telehealth /Telemedicine, Standardisation and Interoperability, User Centered Design and Health Informatics. Olajide is a medical graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, and holds a Master of Science in Global eHealth from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He founded 2005 the Society for Telemedicine and eHealth in Nigeria, and the Society is the first national member from Africa of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth Geneva, Switzerland, an NGO in official relationship with WHO. Implemented the telemedicine component of the Center for Information Technology Unit at the Federal Medical Center Keffi, Nasarawa State. 

He led diverse stakeholders in a complex health/ICT regulatory environment to adopt 32 ISO/TC 215-Health Informatics standards as 32 Nigeria Industrial Standards for Health Informatics in 2019 to ensure standardisation in the field of digital health in Nigeria to facilitate capture, exchange and use of health data to support and enable all aspects of the health system. He is an ISO/TC 215 member and chairs the National Technical & Mirror Committee on ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics. eHealth Consultant to the Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria 2018 – 2020, he Developed the digital health content of the curriculum guidelines for the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Information Management (PGD HIM) / PGD Health Data Analyst for use in tertiary institutions and the National Guideline on Electronic Health Record Architecture based on the adopted ISOTC 215 Health Informatics. eHealth Adviser to the Case Management Pillar, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 2020 – 2021. He deployed a robust COVID-19 case management data collection tool (Mobenzi) for the PTF and helped coordinate the Technical Working Group on Case Management Data. 

He served as the National Digital Health Consultant at the World Health Organization, Nigeria Office in 2021 to support the Federal Ministry of Health, where he was responsible for the end-term evaluation of the National Health ICT Strategic Framework 2015-2020, engaging diverse stakeholders in the review process, and updated the framework to a National Digital Health Strategy 2021-2025, and finalise the draft National Digital Health Policy 2021. Currently, He is serving as the Project Technical Coordinator, “Support to Local Production of Vaccines Readiness in Nigeria”, with the support of the European Union Delegation to Nigeria and West Africa and the Government of Bulgaria. As the Team leader for the project, has the overall responsibility for all aspects of project planning, communication and implementation. He is responsible for Managing, coordinating and directing all the technical aspects of the project implementation and providing quality leadership to the whole team by assisting the Team in preparing studies and analyses, communicating effectively with all stakeholders, authorising (inception, progress and completion) reports and documenting emerging lessons. A true health development champion in Nigeria who is organised and has spent the past decades contributing to the development efforts at strengthening the health system through digitalisation.