Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, a Health Economist and a Health Systems
Expert, obtained both first and second degrees in Economics and a doctorate
degree in Operational Research (applied to Health Systems). He was awarded the
Fellowship of Operational Research, England in 1986, one of the first Africans
so honoured by that international professional organization.
He was in the academics in Nigeria for sixteen years and he
took early and voluntary retirement from the University system in 1992 as a
Professor. He pioneered the teaching of Operations Research, Health Economics
and Health Systems Research in Nigeria. He served at the World Health
Organization (WHO) as the. Regional Adviser on Health Economics, Health Sector
Reform and Health in Socioeconomic Development in the Organization’s Regional
Office for Africa from 1990 to 1999.There, he introduced Health Economics into
the work of the Organization in Africa and strengthened capacity in Health
Economics in the WHO Regional Office for Africa as well as in WHO country
offices in Africa. He received the award for the ‘Most
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outstanding professional staff,’ in the WHO Regional Office for Africa – an
award that was made to any staff for the first time by the WHO’s Regional
Office for Africa. He voluntarily retired in December 1999.
Back in Nigeria, he was appointed Director of the Change
Agent Programme for Health Sector Reform in Nigeria, a health programme funded
by the Department for International Development (DFID/UK) from October 2001 to
July 2003. He was appointed Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria in 2003, a position he held for a full term of four years, making him
one of the longest serving Ministers of Health in Nigeria to date. He has served
on many national and international committees/ boards/ groups including the
Expert Resource Group for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Forum on Health
Finance for; Ministers of Finance, 21-24 April, 2013; Ministers of Health, 2-6
June, 2013; and Ministers of Finance, 2-6 April, 2014.
He is happily married to Dr.(Mrs.) Esther Olufunmilayo Lambo and they are
blessed with four grown up children and nine grandchildren.