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Adaeze Chidinma Oreh (born 19 July 1979) Commissioner of Health Rivers State is a Nigerian
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,
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specialist and
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advocate who is currently a Senior Medical Officer at the Department of Hospital Services in Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health. She is a 2019
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New Voices Fellow.


Early life and education

Adaeze Oreh was born in
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,
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to a medical doctor's father (
Peter Odili Peter Otunuya Odili (born 15 August 1948) is a Nigerian politician who was the third elected Governor of Rivers State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. Odili is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Background Peter Odili ...
) and a judicial officer's mother (
Mary Odili Mary Ukaego Odili (née Nzenwa; CFR born 12 May 1952) is a former Nigerian supreme court judge and wife of Peter Odili, who served as governor of oil-rich Rivers State from 1999 to 2007. She was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour ...
). She is the eldest of four children. She received her primary education at The Play Pen Child Development Centre in Port Harcourt and her secondary education at the University Demonstration Secondary School,
University of Port Harcourt The University of Port Harcourt is a public research university located in Aluu and Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. It was established in 1975 as University College, Port Harcourt and was given university status in 1977. The Univ ...
. She proceeded to the college of medicine,
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, and graduated with a
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degree in 2003. After completing her medical degree, she commenced her internship at the Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital of the
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in
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. She proceeded to get a degree in International Health Management at the
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of the
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after the completion of her National Youth Service with the
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. There, she majored in Global Health Systems, Healthcare Strategy, Healthcare Financing, Organizational Management, Health Informatics and Innovation. Dr Oreh also holds a master's degree in
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from the
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.


Career

After the completion of her master's degree, she volunteered with the Federal Ministry of Health for about seven months, and then she was appointed Programme Coordinator of the Abuja Centre of the National Blood Transfusion Service – a partnership project of the
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(CDC) and Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health funded under the United States
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(PEPFAR). She held this position for five years between 2009 and 2014. In addition, she contributed towards the revision of the country's National Blood Policy in the National Health Act of 2014. She is a Fellow of the
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and a member of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in Family Medicine and is certified in Leadership and Management in addition to Safety and Quality in Healthcare from
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,
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and
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. She is a 2019
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New Voices Fellow.


Personal life

She is the daughter of the former governor of
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, Dr Peter Odili, and Nigerian Supreme Court Justice, Justice Mary Odili. She married Patrick Oreh, an
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and entrepreneur, in 2004. The couple have two children.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oreh, Adaeze 1979 births Living people Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Nigerian public health doctors Nigerian women medical doctors University of Nigeria alumni