Orode Doherty

Orode Doherty is a Nigerian paediatrician. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria 19 June 1971 to the family of Prof. Babatunde Williams and Prof. Grace Alele Williams. She attended Queens College for her secondary education ,the University of Benin and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gaining a Master's degree Public Health (Maternal & Child Health)
Orode is a pioneer paediatrician from ICAP at Columbia University.
Orode is Certified by the US Board of Paediatricians, she is also Public Health Physician and Founder and Medical Director of Ingress Health Partners. She is known for her contribution to facilitating the integration of comprehensive primary healthcare by deploying continuity-of-care model incorporating anticipatory guidance and behaviour change at community level. She integrates this with technology and has formed partnerships to optimize outcomes.
She is the founder of The African Children's Hospitals Foundation, established with the aim to expand access for children in Africa to quality specialty care at designated dedicated Paediatric centres.
Career and awards
She received her Paediatric training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and the Children's Hospital of where she was an award-winning Paediatric resident and clinician, during her postgraduate (paediatric) residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, she developed and introduced a Pediatric environmental health curriculum into the residency training curriculum. As a result of this work, Dr. Doherty was awarded the A. Vincent Londino Teaching Award for resident education in recognition of her outstanding role.
As a resident teacher and clinician at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2006 In ICAP, Columbia University, she led teams that established over 100 maternal and newborn care clinics for mothers living with HIV in several states in Nigeria, creating curricula for training health providers and tools for supervision. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Doherty worked as the Paediatric Clinical Advisor of the International Centre for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, (ICAP) Columbia University.
During this time, she led teams that established comprehensive functional high-quality paediatric antiretroviral treatment clinics linked via referral networks to paediatric support groups and community and faith-based organizations in Kaduna, Benue, Cross River, Gombe, Kogi and Akwa Ibom. She also provided clinical preceptor support to clinicians in over 100 facilities in these states where they supervised prevention-of-mother-to-child transmission of HIV services alongside exposed infant follow up. Dr. Doherty directed the CDC funded Technical Response to the AIDS-Affected Populations (TAP) project from 2008 till 2010 where over 500healthcare workers were trained to provide a full range of HIV and AIDS prevention care and treatment services to over 150,000 direct beneficiaries in three states in Nigeria. In July 2010, Dr. Doherty proposed a transformation plan for the Massey Street Children’s Hospital, a 100+ year old health facility to a modern Children’s Hospital .Named, the “Omo Eko” (literally translated the “Lagosian Child”) project, she led the team that developed the strategic plan and road map addressing operations, financial sustainability and relevant specialist education. The project was adopted by the state Government to be executed in stages. She served as an ad-hoc advisor tothe Hospital Board and the Chief Medical Director and was actively involved in change processes to advance this transformation. Following an interregnum, building has commenced at the new location in Lagos Island. She continues to serve the Hospital and residents as well as work with a committee of the Lagos state Government on this project. This work propelled the beginnings of The African Children's Hospital Foundation
She has done extensive work in Malaria tracking and prevention
Work with women and youth
While she was Country Director for Africare Nigeria, she pushed for enhancing the capacity of women and their families to improving health and livelihoods through behaviour change, education and enhanced access to resources and technology. At Africare, she worked extensively with youth programs integrating sports and life skills. Her professional career has spanned clinical and academic paediatrics, health and hospitals systems strengthening, community development, establishing livelihoods and the promotion of life skills in youth. In 2020 was nominated in The Future Awards Africa in the Prize for service to young people category.
She is a Fellow and a moderator of the Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa and the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She is also a moderator of the Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship Program in Nigeria, a fellowship for young people committed to public service.
Conference Presentation and Speaking Engagements
Keynote speaker- 2018 EpiAfric Health Meets Tech Nigeria Maternal Health
Hackathon -Abuja Nigeria September 2018
Keynote Speaker- “Leading in Healthcare. How do we get there?”: Medic West Africaconference. Lagos Nigeria Oct 2018
Speaker: Insight to Impact AIDS 2018 HIV Prevention demand creation Pre-Conference.
“Media Mix- How and where do we need to communicate?” Netherlands July
Speaker: Health Meets Tech Hackathon. Epi Afric; Nigeria Health Watch June 2017 Lagos
Paediatric Association of Nigeria: January 2017 Kaduna, Nigeria
Oral Plenary Presentation: Improving Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Outcomes through Technology: Implications for Malaria programming in Nigeria
West African College of Physicians: November 2012 Accra Ghana
Poster presentation: Enhancing sustainable PMTCT access through Community Referral Systems

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