President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday appointed Dr Ifedayo Adetifa as the new Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).
The new DG replaces Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, who last week took up an appointment as Assistant Director General at the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Adetifa is a clinic epidemiologist in epidemiology and democracy department at the program and an associate professor of infectious diseases Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He began professional studies as a medicine student in the University of Ilorin where he studied medicine and surgery in 1989 till 1997.
Ifedayo was born in Nigeria and currently in his 50’s.
In 2005, he got the fellowship of the west Africa college of physicians in paediatrics after completing his training in paediatrics and child health at the Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH)
Dr Ifedayi Adetifa began his career as a research clinician/paediatrics from 2004 as a clinician scientist, where he was responsible for the design and conduct of several Immunoepidemiology studies including a clinical trial aimed at elucidating the correlates of disease and protection in TB and identifying surrogates of treatment efficacy.
In addition, Ifedayo was a Clinical Epidemiologist, Medical Research Council Unit, The Gamia from 2011 to 2014, when he became as an associate professor of infectious diseases Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
