Isaac Iyinoluwa Olufadewa
Executive Director, Slum and Rural Health Initiative (
Nigeria)
Dr. Isaac Olufadewa is the Executive Director of Slum and Rural Health Initiative, a non-profit organization that delivers quality healthcare in underserved communities such as migrant/refugee camps, urban slums, disability centres among other historically marginalized areas in Nigeria and other regions of Africa using the tools of advocacy, research and technology. As the co-Founder/CEO of SimbiHealth, Africa’s flagship artificial intelligence-driven mental and sexual health mobile application, he believes in the use of innovative digital technologies and approaches to reach vulnerable groups. Dr. Olufadewa earned his medical degree at Nigeria’s premier university– the University of Ibadan before becoming a Pan African University Scholar, where he obtained his postgraduate degree in Reproductive Health on a fully-funded scholarship from the African Union Commission.
His research publications at Slum and Rural Health Initiative Research Academy, where he leads early career researchers from 9 African Countries are focused on global health inequalities, sexual and reproductive health and rights, infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS and COVID-19) and mental health, especially among vulnerable groups. Dr Isaac Olufadewa is a Mandela Washington Fellow, Women Deliver Young Leader and the One Young World Managing Ambassador for Africa and Middle East where he leads over 1,500 Ambassadors (young leaders) from over 70 countries that promote the actualization of the Sustainable Development Goals.