Dr. Adetokunbo Bolanle Oluyemisi Oyeledun is a female public health physician with over thirty-five (35) years of experience in policy development, program management, health systems and international development. She graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria with a degree in Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, (MBBS) with a Masters Degree in Public health from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Master of Sciences in Health Management from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She has over 28 years’ experience in progressively senior leadership capacity in successful management and implementation of major integrated health and development programs including HIV and AIDS, other infectious diseases, reproductive health management, maternal, newborn and child health and implementations science research projects in low-resource settings. She was the Deputy Country Director for Reproductive Health/HIV/AIDS and Senior program Officer/Reproductive Health HIV/AIDS at the Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), Nigeria Office from 2000 to 2004 and the Country Director/Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University/International Centre for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) from 2005 to 2014. She was a Gates-Packard visiting fellow on the Population Leadership Program of the University of Washington Seattle, USA (2001-2002).

She has effectively built a comprehensive HIV care and treatment program within 3 years from scratch to a leading and highly respected quality focused and result oriented institution. She was Nigeria’s representative on the WHO Mega Country Network on School Health from 1999 to 2000. Elected the first female chairperson of the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria, Switzerland (2008-2011), she also chaired the Independent Review Committee (IRC) of the Gavi Alliance, Switzerland from 2014 to 2018.  She is a member of the Regional Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Technical Advisory Group for the World Health Organisation/Africa region (2020-date), and a member of the PPR FIF/Pandemic Fund Working Group 1 and Working Group 3 (2022-2023) for the World B, as well as a Co-Chair on the ITAD: Health Systems Strengthening Evaluation Collaborative (HSSEC) (2021-2023), she is also a member of the HIV Control Working Group (HCWG) (2024-Till Date). She is an Associate fellow of the National Postgraduate College of Nigeria) {equiv. of MRCP, UK, a Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Management as well as the International Society for Quality in Health Car (FISQUA), and a Fellow at both the Chartered Institute of Directors, Nigeria (FIoD) and Nigerian Institute of Management.

She is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP), a non-governmental organisation with a vision of transforming lives through partnerships for improved health and development outcomes. She has led CIHP to win several health, development, and implementation of science research grants from major donors notably PEPFAR/CDC, WHO, Canadian DFATD, the MTN Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  In 2022, she led CIHP to win the Public Health Excellence Award for Innovative Approach to HIV Case Finding and Linkage to ART During the CDC, Nigeria Biannual Program Performance Review Meeting/2022 End of Project Cycle Symposium.

Under her leadership, CIHP trained Adolescents and Young Persons (AYP) at the Lagos state business incubation center and in the process of scaling up the business service model to Kaduna, Kogi and Gombe states in Nigeria. In 2018, she started “Candid conversations with Bola O”, a face-to-face dialogue to encourage women (and men!) to come together sharing experiences on issues not often talked about in the Nigerian society. She has several scientific papers/articles in scientific journals/books with working experience in over sixteen countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia and the USA.” She is passionate about the health and development of all people especially Nigerians with a strong focus on the young, the most vulnerable and those “left behind” irrespective of where and who they are!