Dr Adekemi Adeniyan is a mobile dentist working in rural communities. She is the Founder and the Executive Director of Dentalcare Foundation formerly known as Dentoville Foundation. Dentalcare Foundation is an organisation that provides free oral health education and treatments to orphans, children and adults in rural areas to foster health equity in underserved communities. She is also the co-founder of Komplete Woman, an organisation that mentors young women to discover their purpose early and empowers teenage mothers who live in the slums.
She previously worked as an assistant country director for Health Equity International, Nigeria. She is a fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative RLC, West Africa, an associate fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society, UK, a 2019 Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity at George Washington University, a 2019 Alumni of the African Changemakers Fellowship, and a 2019 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholar at Lancaster University, UK. She is the 2019 winner of the Nigerian Her Network Woman Of The Year Award in Healthcare and was listed among the 2020 Leading Ladies Africa “100 most inspiring women in Nigeria.”
She is passionate about optimising, improving and developing the oral healthcare system and exploring the issues of community and culture as it relates to oral health. Her vision is to ensure that everyone in Nigeria has equal access to oral healthcare irrespective of their age, status or gender. Dr Adekemi also has a strong passion for mentoring the younger generation which she does by enrolling young women in schools under the Kompletegirls Mentoring Club to be paired with reliable mentors. Dr Adekemi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Dentistry from i.Ya Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University, Ukraine and undergoing an MSc in Medical Leadership at Lancaster UniversityExecutive.
(Culled from: leadingladiesafrica.org)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 She deserves some accolades ,More grace and God bless,
Make I come for my check up oo