Eyitayo Lambo

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**Eyitayo Lambo** mà fu dọ ki mu di àgboji Nigerian Federal Minister of Health efu ochu ekebie ọdọ 2003, I defu ọfẹ gbo gbo ñyi efu ochu ẹkẹlu ọdọ 2007 ẹgbá ugwugwu ekeji ágboji wà  Olusegun Obasanjo.

## Background
Mà bi Lambo efu ochu ẹkẹ gweji lolu ogwu ñyeji efu ọdọ 1944 efewo Isanlu, Oji ánẹ Yagba East local government area ofu Kogi State, Nigeria. Ichi ukọche University of Ibadan, University of Rochester (USA) kpài University of Lancaster (UK).

I nẹ B.Sc. kpài M.A. degrees efu economics pkài P.HD degree efu operational research dàmà kpài uñyi ogwu. Professor Lambo kàmọmà chepkulu pkài abo Ku mà fi chepkulu Che pkà efu universities eyi ibàdàn, ilọrin pkài and bẹndẹl state, efu ọdọ 1974 ti 1992.

Ma mu du àboji Operational Research (Englànd), ẹnẹ ejodudu ki kwi Africa Kàbo international professional organization dojimà ñwu efu ọdọ 1986. He was a consultant lecturer to the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank and the African Development Bank.

He was also external examiner to several Universities, including the City University of London.

Lambo was the Regional Adviser for health sector reforms, health care financing and health in socioeconomic development in the World Health Organization's regional office for Africa from 1990 to 1999.

He was the first economist to be employed by the WHO's Regional Office for Africa. He introduced health economics into the work of the WHO in Africa and built/strengthened capacity in health economics in the WHO Regional Office for Africa as well as in WHO country offices in Africa before taking an early and voluntary retirement from the United Nations System in 1999. At the Regional Committee of the Ministers of Health of the African Region held in Windhoek, Namibia in 1999, he received the award of the "most hardworking staff'' in the WHO Regional Office for Africa.

He was Director of the Change Agent (for Health Sector Reform) Program in Nigeria (a sister program to PATHS I) funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), UK with the Federal Government of Nigeria from October 2001 to July 2003.

Professor Lambo has published over sixty papers, articles and books in the areas of quantitative economics, modeling, operations research applied to health, strategic management, and health economics.

## Minister of Health
In July 2003, Lambo was appointed Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, holding office until May 2007, making him the only economist appointed as Minister of Health in Nigeria to date and the second longest serving Minister of Health in Nigeria to date. During his tenure as Minister of Health, the first Health Sector Reform Program for Nigeria was developed and implemented; the National Health Insurance Scheme was launched after being on the drawing board for forty years. Many health policies and legislations were formulated during his tenure, including the hotly debated National Health Bill.

He was one of the few politically neutral technocrats to serve under the administration. He had a strong focus on long term health sector reform and good governance.

## Nigerian Economic Society Fellowship Conferment
On September 17, 2013, Lambo was conferred with a Fellowship by the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) along with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the presence of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR and the President of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), Professor Akin Iwayemi.

## Other activities
* Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Chairman of the Board (2005-2007)
* Medicines for Malaria Venture (MVV), Member of the Board of Directors (2003-2009)

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