Idogho appointed new managing director for SFH

Society for Family Health (SFH), has a new Managing Director. He is Dr. Omokhudu Idogho. This appointment took effect on January 1, 2019. He took over from Bright Ekweremadu who retired as Managing Director of SFH on December 31, 2018, after 14 years.

According to a statement made available to the media, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications for SFH, Donald Etim, said before his appointment, Idogho was Head of SFH’s Innovation Hub, focused on developing a sustainable community health financing ecosystem and Social Business model that brings the emerging Nigerian middle class and poor together in the quest for shared health and prosperity.
He also served as the Programme Director for DFID’s Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV&AIDS (ENR) Programme, one of the largest single country HIV programmes in the world.

Before joining SFH, Idogho worked with ActionAid International in South Africa as the Global HIV&AIDS Programme Coordinator overseeing ActionAid’s work in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He also worked as a Policy Advisor with ActionAid Alliance in Belgium, focused on shaping policy making in European Union institutions. His other positions included Health Advisor with WaterAid Nigeria in Benue State, and as a Medical Officer of Health at Izzi Local Government in present day Ebonyi State.

Idogho trained as a medic at the University of Benin, and has postgraduate qualifications in public policy and public health.

Society for Family Health is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation with interventions in various public health areas including child survival, malaria prevention and treatment, HIV & AIDS treatment and prevention, reproductive health, safe water systems, health and social system strengthening, cervical cancer and non communicable disease. SFH implements her life saving programmes to bring about policy change and provide health products, clinical services and behaviour change communications to Nigerians in both urban and rural areas especially among the most vulnerable.

SFH Nigeria works in collaboration with Federal and State Governments, with the support of donors. In 2018, SFH interventions reached more than 40 million Nigerians in over 700 communities across the country.