Dr. Awele Elumelu is a leading voice in African healthcare.
As the Chairperson of Avon Healthcare Limited, Nigeria’s leading health
insurance provider, and Avon Medical Practice, a growing network of full-
service clinics and onsite facilities with corporate institutions, she is focused on
expanding and improving access to quality healthcare in Nigeria, Africa’s
most populous nation.
Having identified poor health infrastructure, absence of medical equipment
and poor healthcare coverage as some of the challenges facing healthcare
delivery in Nigeria, she established the two organisations to provide affordable
medical insurance and services to Nigerians from all walks of life. This is helping
to improve access to adequate and effective healthcare services in Nigeria.
In January 2018, Dr Elumelu was appointed as Private Sector Champion for
Immunisation in Africa by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. In this role, she leverages
her knowledge, corporate networks, and expertise from the healthcare and
business sectors to champion vaccination and immunisation in Africa, where
almost 10 million children are yet to be fully immunized.
Dr. Elumelu serves as a Director on the Board of Heirs Holdings, a family-owned
investment company committed to improving lives and transforming Africa,
and is the Co-founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, the leading
philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs and championing entrepreneurship
in Africa.
Dr Elumelu is particularly passionate about and advocates extensively for the
rights of Africans, women and children. In line with her commitment to the
economic philosophy of Africapitalism, which calls on the African private
sector to lead the charge in developing the continent, she continues to work
to bring together public and private players to deliver economic opportunity,
social good, and greater health and opportunity to all Africans.
Dr. Elumelu holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from the
University of Benin. Her career as a medical doctor includes experience with
the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, in Nigeria, and with Grantham and District Hospital UK
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