About the Institute

Built for public health.

  • 1,500+Practitioners trained
  • 200+Open-access resources
  • 60+Partner organisations
  • 4Countries across West Africa
What guides us

Mission, vision, values.

  1. Mission

    Strengthen the West African health workforce and translate rigorous evidence into better care for the people who need it most — through training, applied research, and policy-ready briefs.

  2. Vision

    A region where every practitioner has the training, the evidence, and the operational tools to deliver high-quality public health — regardless of where in West Africa they practise.

  3. Values

    Field-led, openly published, peer-reviewed, and built with ministries and practitioners — not for them. We share what we learn because the public health workforce needs it.

Who we are

A West African institute for public health, by public health practitioners.

We sit inside the Society for Family Health Group — a forty-year-old public health organisation operating across Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The Institute exists to convert that operational experience into research, training, and policy work the whole sector can use.

SFH Institute for Public HealthEvidence, training, and translation since 2010.

Governance

Board of Directors.

The SFH leadership providing governance, strategy, and oversight for the Institute.

Dr. Omokhudu Idogho

Dr. Omokhudu Idogho

Chief Executive Officer, SFH

Mr. Joseph Ani

Mr. Joseph Ani

Chief Finance Officer, SFH

Mr. Dennis Aizobu

Mr. Dennis Aizobu

Managing Director, SFH Access

Dr. Jennifer Anyanti

Dr. Jennifer Anyanti

Managing Director, SFH Advisory & Professional Services

Mr. Emeka Okafor

Mr. Emeka Okafor

Executive Director, Population, Health & Community Systems

Mr. AbdulSamad Salihu

Mr. AbdulSamad Salihu

Executive Director, Infectious & Integrated Disease

Dr. Rosaline Etukudo-Mordi

Dr. Rosaline Etukudo-Mordi

Director, People, Talent & Culture

Mr. Dayyabu Yusuf

Mr. Dayyabu Yusuf

Director, SFH Institute for Public Health

Mrs. Oluwa Funmilola

Mrs. Oluwa Funmilola

Director, Audit & Compliance

Mr. Aigbe Onobun

Mr. Aigbe Onobun

Director, Strategy & Partnerships

Start today

Begin where the work is.

Public health is built one cohort, one shift, one published brief at a time. Start with us.