Board of Trustees

Dr. Adetoun Agbe-Davies

Member

Adetoun is a multi-talented community physician with over 30 years professional experience. She held top management positions in public administration and is a quality oriented manager and trainer with extensive communication skills; and is experienced in designing and managing projects and programmes in the health sector. She is a WHO trained trainer in integrating gender into Public Health. She is experienced in working with both local and international non governmental organisations. She has an excellent ability to multitask and add value to achieve results. She retired statutorily as the Permanent Secretary Health, Lagos State Ministry of Health in August 2010. She was appointed Board Chairman, Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee with the responsibility for the safety of blood for transfusion in Lagos State from February 2012 till May 2015.

She attended Queen’s School, Ede and graduated Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB, BS) from the University of Ibadan in June 1974. Her Medical School elective was in Clinical Pharmacology at the Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, USA, monitoring drug interactions in the teaching hospital in 1973.
She was House Officer at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital from 1974 to 1975 and spent the National Youth Service Corps year from 1975 to 1976 starting from Badagry General Hospital and then Onikan Health Centre.

Adetoun started her career in Public Health in Ikeja Local Government in November 1977. She spent 28years in the local government service in Lagos State, 25 of which were in the position of Medical Officer of Health in Eti-Osa, Ikoyi, Somolu, Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Surulere, Lagos Mainland, Agege and Ikeja. As the Medical Officer of Health in Ikorodu Local Government from 1986 to 1989, she established the then Ikorodu Local Government ‘Model Primary Health Care Programme’. She was the first female Medical Officer of Health in City Hall, Lagos Island Local Government, a position she held from 1989 to 1993.

In the course of her career she obtained the following degrees and diplomas:
* Master of Science (MSc) Community Health in Developing Countries. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. 1980
* ⁠Diploma in Public Health (DPH). Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene 1980
* ⁠Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of Lagos 1988
* ⁠Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (D.L.S.H.T.M) 2001

She attended numerous courses locally and is widely travelled also attending various courses and programmes.
She is an alumna of the World Bank Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health for the Global Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing. 2007

She moved to the mainstream of the Lagos State civil service in January 2006 and was the Director Public Health (Family Health and Nutrition) until her appointment as the Permanent Secretary Health in February 2009. It is to be noted that her appointment as Permanent Secretary was as a result of her coming first out of over 300 candidates in the first ever examination conducted for the position of Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Civil Service.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene;
Member, Nigerian Institute of Management;
Member International AIDS Society;
Member, Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria;
Member, Nigerian Medical Association;
Member, Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria;
Member, Cosmopolitan Women’s Club

She is married and blessed with children and grandchildren.

Her hobbies are reading and dancing.