Dr Omokhudu Idogho, Managing Director, Society for Family Health (SFH)

Dr Omokhudu Idogho is Managing Director, Society for Family Health (SFH).

Before his appointment as MD, Omokhudu was the 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 (2009-2014).

Before joining SFH, Omokhudu 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. Omokhudu trained as a Doctor at the University of Benin and has postgraduate qualifications in public policy and public health.

He is happily married with children, and his hobbies are reading, motivational speaking, nature walks and traveling.