Cecilia Olayide Amotsuka

Cecilia Olayide Amotsuka is an MPH student (reproductive health track) at Tulane University, completing the course in September 2001. She completed the Hubert H. Humphrey fellowship in June 2001. She did her capstone on Perinatal HIV transmission prevention, as well as cervical cancer screening and management. She will return to Nigeria in late September. Cecilia got her medical degree at the University of Ibadan and has practiced clinical medicine for nineteen years before coming to Tulane University for the Humphrey program and the MPH course. She founded, and worked as medical Director of J-Rapha Christian Hospital at Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1987 till this time. The hospital offers comprehensive services, with emphasis on obstetrics and reproductive health, and is known for maintaining a high standard of care and user-friendliness. It aims to prevent unnecessary maternal, perinatal and general mortality. In addition to supervising the hospital, she hopes to spend the next five to ten years on operations research work on 1) Preventing perinatal HIV transmission in Oyo State, Nigeria, 2) Improving the self-esteem of young adolescents in primary schools as a means of preventing early sexual debut and premarital sex, and 3) cervical cancer screening and management of carcinoma in situ among market women in Bodija market, Ibadan. She has no published work yet.