Faculty and Facilitators
SMLP brings together distinguished faculty members, accomplished executive CEOs, policy leaders, and seasoned practitioners selected based on their leadership accomplishments to bridge theory and practice.

Prof. Adesola Olumide
Adesola Olumide is a professor of adolescent medicine and health and a consultant community physician at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), University of Ibadan, and University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. She served as a commissioner on the WHO-UNICEF-LANCET Commission ('A future for the world's children?') and is a commissioner on the current Lancet Commission on adolescent health. She is the Vice President (Sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH) and chairs the Technical Quality Delivery subcommittee for the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria.
Key Professional Leadership Appointments
Prof. A.F. Adeniyi
Fatai Adeniyi is a distinguished professor of physiotherapy and former Deputy Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. An accomplished educator and administrator, he has served in numerous leadership capacities including Worldwide President of the Ibadan College of Medicine Alumni Association (ICOMAA), Head of Department of Physiotherapy, and Director of physical activity initiatives across Africa. He currently serves as the Director of the Centre for General Studies, UI.
Key Professional Leadership Appointments
Dr. Adedamola Dada
Dr. Adedamola Dada is a distinguished orthopaedic and trauma surgeon and award-winning healthcare manager with over two decades of clinical and transformational leadership. As MD/CEO of Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta (2017–2024), he spearheaded a historic institutional transformation—expanding bed capacity from 75 to 420, making it the first public tertiary hospital in Nigeria to attain SafeCare Level 4 certification, and winning the National Health Excellence Award. His achievements were featured as a Lagos Business School case study. In 2022, he received a National Honour from President Muhammadu Buhari.