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Friday Okonofua is a renowned Nigerian professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Maternal & Infant Mortality Reduction: Airtel playing significant role )〕 He is the pioneer Vice Chancellor of Ondo State University of Medical Sciences and founder of Women Health and Action Research Centre, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Benin City, that focus on promoting female reproductive research.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ondo Medical Science varsity will end medical tourism —VC )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Okonofua pledges affordable fees )〕 Prior to his appointment as the 1st substantive Vice Chancellor of Ondo State University of Medical Sciences, he served as the Provost of the College of Medical Science, University of Benin and currently the Program Officer of Ford Foundation's West Africa office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=College awards Ahiru, others on medical research )〕 Ford Foundation is a New York headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare. Professor Okonofua's research interest is in the area of Public health, sexual and female reproductive health as well as Andrology, a field of medicine that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. It is also known as "The science of Men". It is the counterpart to gynaecology, which deals with medical issues which are specific to the female reproductive system. The results of his research on maternal mortality rate published by ''Business Day'' on Sunday, July 19, 2015 suggests that the motality rate of a pregnant woman in Africa is 1 in 42 and 1 in 25, 500 in developed countries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nigeria ranks high in global infant, maternal death rates )〕 Commenting on BusinessDay’s Research and Intelligence Unit report published on June 2, 2015, He said “the major problem is that about 40% of doctors we train locally are going abroad because of better remuneration and better working environment. Also, there are less resources devoted to training doctors in the country, especially in public training institutions. What happens these days is that even when players in the private sector set up institutions to train doctors when members of the Nigerian Dental and Medical Association inspect such institutions, they are forced to approve it for very few students”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Long waits, rude staff, bureaucracy, top complaints against public hospital-BRIU report )〕 In recognition of his outstanding research and expertise in Gynecology and Obstetrics, he was appointed as Executive Director of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and was the only African Gynecologist and Obstetrician shortlisted for the interview held in London on April 2005. In 2012, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, the apex scientific organization in Nigeria. He was inducted into the academy, alongside with Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and Professor Akinyinka Omigbodun, the President of the West African College of Surgeons and former Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fellows of the academy )〕 ==Background== Professor Okonofua was born in Ewu, Nigerian city situated in Esan Central Local Government area in Edo State Southern Nigeria. Following the completion of his primary education 1965, he was admitted into Anglican Grammar School, Ujoelen, Ekpoma before he attended Edo College, Benin City where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1969. He proceeded to the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Health science and a Doctor of Medicine in 1978 from the same University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Friday Okonofua / Team / West Africa / Regions / Ford Foundation )〕 In 1981, he simultaneously enrolled at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons. He became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1984 and a fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in 1985. Between 1984 to 1985, he was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical pathology of Royal Free Hospital, the teaching hospital of the University of London. In 1990, he became a Takemi Fellow in International health at School of Public Health, Harvard University. In 2004, he became a fellow of the International College of Surgeons. In 2005, he received a doctorate degree (Ph. D) in Public health and Population health from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden's third oldest medical school, after Uppsala University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Professor Friday Okonofua- WHARC )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friday Okonofua」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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