Prof Fatusi is the founder of Paaneah Foundation, Ota, Ogun State; co-founder of the Academy for Health Development (AHEAD), Ile-Ife, and co-Chair of the RAAOFAT (Revd. Akinyemi A. O. Fatusi Youth Development Resource Centre, Centre), Ejigbo, Lagos. He served as the Chair of Nigeria’s National Adolescent Health Technical Working Group from 2006 to 2019. He was the pioneer General Secretary for the Society for Public Health Professionals of Nigeria as well as the foundation President of the Society for Adolescents and Young People’s Health in Nigeria (SAYPHIN). Currently, he is the Vice President (Sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH).
A graduate of the Population Leadership Fellowship programme of the University of Washington, USA, he continues to play leading roles in national public health research initiatives, policy development, and population-level programming in Nigeria and beyond. As a seasoned researcher with over 130 peer-reviewed and technical publications, he brings his strong academic background to bear positively on field-based public health practice.
Professor Adesegun Fatusi is a frontline public health expert with almost three decades of experience. His major areas of focus are adolescent health and development; sexual, reproductive and maternal health; and health systems leadership and policy development. He attained the rank of a Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (OAU) in 2008. He served as the Provost of the OAU College of Health Sciences (2013-2017), earlier served as the Director of Population and Reproductive Health Programme (2008-2014), and Director of Institute of Public Health (2010-2013). Outside the University system, he served previously as a Reproductive Health Adviser for the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) programme in Nigeria (1996-2001), and has served as a consultant to several other development organisations, including WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, USAID-funded programmes, and DfID-funded projects.
