Farida Mohammad Kabir (born 25 July 1992) is a Nigerian epidemiologist, software developer, and technology entrepreneur.She is the team lead for Google Women TechMakers And Co-organizer for Google Developer Group, Abuja. She is also the founder/CEO of OTRAC, a health technology company that develops enterprise software systems for the healthcare sector in Nigeria.
Early life and education
Farida Kabir was born in London, UK, in 1992. She is the eldest of five daughters. Kabir attended primary school in Lagos and secondary school in Kaduna, Nigeria. She studied at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria from January 2009 to April 2014, graduating with a Bachelors of Science in Biological Science. In 2015, she was trained as a front line field epidemiologist by the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program of the NCDC. She later got a scholarship from the Visiola Foundation to study software development. Kabir also holds an MBA from the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.
Career
She founded OTRAC, a health technology company that develops enterprise software systems for the healthcare sector in Nigeria.
Kabir is the current ambassador and team lead for Google Women TechMakers Abuja. Google Women TechMakers is a program that supports and encourages more women to get into the STEM field, and help those that are already in STEM. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. She is one of 100 women named in Leading Ladies Africa (LLA)’s 100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria list for 2019.
Kabir served as the Federal ICT advisor for the Department of International Development (DFID)’s Partnership to Engage, Reform, and Learn (PERL) programme.
Recognition
- Laureate du Digital Africa by French Development Agency (2017)
- Innoventor by Verdant Zeal Group (2017)
- Guardian Woman by Guardian Newspapers (2018)
- Nigeria's 100 most inspiring women by Leading Ladies Africa (2019)
- YTech100 by the Future Africa Project (2019)
Publications
- From Zero to Mobile App - Building with Ionic Framework
- Mobile Heath and Telemedicine in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges, Modern Tools and Future Innovation
- Applying a Gender Lens to Young People's Access to Health Services: A transformative Approach
- 21st Century Skills in ICT Business