Lagos Private Health Partnership
Technical build of a certified actuarial pricing framework, operational guidelines and a 16-HMO participation base under the Lagos State Health Scheme Law.
With LASHMA and the NHIA
Work
Policy, priced and built.
Selected programmes
What changed on the ground.
Malaria · 2025
Lagos Pathway to Malaria Pre-Elimination
Delivered with WHO, the World Bank IMPACT project and Government. Moved Lagos to rapid diagnostic testing in primary care and secured the programme's first budget line. Maisha Meds' fever-management model reached a 400-facility network.
Launched March 2025Insurance · Lagos
Pandemic · 2020–21
Governor's COVID-19 Think Tank
Coordinated the think tank supporting the Commissioner for Health; co-author of the 2024 Annals of African Medicine paper describing it as a framework for pandemic decision-making.
Cited by BMJ Global Health, 2025Capital · 4 States
Access to capital for private health SMEs
A technical framework to open finance to private providers in Lagos, Delta, Oyo and Kwara, including facility revitalisation with the Bank of Industry and Medical Credit Fund.
43 Lagos · 25 Delta facilitiesIndustry · 2025–2030
Lagos State Industrial Policy
Co-author of LSIP 2025–2030; presented at the industrial policy review. Co-Chair of the Technical and Programmes Committee of Invest Lagos 3.0.
Ministry of CommerceHealth industry · 2025
LASMIIZO & the Cancer and Diagnostic Institute
Technical adviser to the Lagos medical industrial zone from its June 2025 unveiling, and to the joint-venture and delivery workstreams of the Lagos Comprehensive Cancer and Diagnostic Institute.
Ministry of HealthCooperatives · 2026
₦10bn LASMECO matching fund
Cooperative digitisation and an MSME matching fund with the Bank of Industry and Sterling Bank, pairing 9% loans with skills to scale.
Ministry of CommerceLegislation · 2025
HIV, TB and Malaria Trust Fund
Legislative advocacy on the Trust Fund provisions of the NACA (Amendment) Bill 2025, and support for Healthy Futures, a proposed results-linked health access fund convened with the Global Fund at UNGA 81.
Maisha MedsPPPs · Ogun
AHME & World Economic Forum unit
Chaired the project management unit overseeing 14 PPP initiatives in Ogun State, and managed the Araya community-based health insurance scheme.
IFC, 2014–2017
Ventures
Companies that carry the thesis.
Chief Growth OfficerMaisha Meds
Health technology whose free point-of-sale software runs in 6,000 pharmacies and drug shops across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, turning everyday sales into data that governments, funders and lenders can act on.
maishameds.org ↗
Founder & CEOImadeforte Holdings
Management and technical consulting group and holding company for ventures in healthcare, property and workforce technology.
imadeforteholdings.com ↗
Founder & Executive ChairmanREALMS Healthcare
HEFAMAA-licensed health facility monitoring operator, raising the quality floor of private care in Lagos.
realmsconsulting.com ↗
Board memberGenesys Health Information Systems
Health information systems for providers and public health, returning to where his private-sector career began.
genesys-health.com ↗
Qura
Co-founder & Chief Growth OfficerQura
A healthcare workforce marketplace and growth platform connecting clinicians to the facilities that need them.
qurahealth.org ↗
Co-founderGirard Property
Property technology for Lagos, bringing structure and data to a market that runs mostly on trust and word of mouth.
girardpropertylimited.com ↗Publications
On the record.
2024Annals of African MedicineThe Lagos State COVID-19 Think-tank, a Potential Framework for Decision-making in a Pandemic Era. Abayomi A, Odukoya O, Okulaja O, et al. 23(3): 262–266.↗
2016IFC SmartLessonsWhat's in a Name? A Lot, When It's Community-Based Health Insurance in Nigeria. Okunola O, Rogo K, Okulaja O.
Nov 2026ICID 2026, MadridEstablishing the True Confirmed Malaria Rates among Suspected Malaria Patients in Lagos State: Realities of Sub-national Tailoring for Pre-elimination. Oyibo W, et al. Accepted poster.