In her 41 years as a physician, She has, with great passion, been a CHANGEMAKER, contributing significantly to improve quality of healthcare in Africa. She has mentored several clinicians in the area of Radiology, driven a cancer organization to raise over 8,000 cancer prevention Activists who intervene in communities, impacted over 60,000 lives in 15 years, in 27 states, through Education/Screening/Vaccination/Financing Cancer treatment of indigent patients and sustained advocacy to improve Nigeria/Africa’s Healthcare indices/economic growth, through scaling up capacity for Clinical trials.

Prof Ifeoma Okoye is an internationally Acclaimed Social Entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow, Professor of Radiation Medicine, Director of UNN Center for Clinical Trials (UNNCECT) & member of The National Implementation Committee on Cancer Control (NICCC) & Cancer Health Fund (CHF)