Dr. Adaeze Oreh is a Consultant Family Physician, Public Health Specialist, and the Honourable Commissioner for Health in Rivers State. Prior to her appointment, she was the Country Director of Planning, Research, and Statistics for Nigeria’s National Blood Service Commission (NBSC), and a Senior Health Policy Advisor with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health.
With over two decades of private and public healthcare experience, she was a pioneer Member of the Governing Council of Pamo University of Medical Sciences – Nigeria’s first private university of medical sciences. She is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership, Aspen Institute, Aspen Global Innovators Group, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Royal Society of Public Health, and a Member of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood Global Advisory Group and the International Society of Blood Transfusion COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Working Group.
She advocates for respectful, quality healthcare, health equity, universal health coverage, and quality medical education, and was one of 15 accomplished ‘Amujae Leaders’ in Africa awarded by the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development and was named a Neglected Tropical Diseases Champion by the Global First Ladies Alliance and The End Fund; and National Champion for Reproductive Health by White Ribbon Alliance.
