President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday appointed Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
Adetifa will take over from Chikwe Ihekweazu, who has been appointed as assistant Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
In an official letter addressed the WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, Ihekweazu is expected to assume the office on November 1, 2021, and will be in charge of WHO’s pandemic and epidemic response hub in Berlin, Germany.
Buhari had appointed Ihekweazu in August 2016.
The new NCDC DG bagged his first degree from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State.
He completed his residency training in Paediatrics at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, and studied for the MSc in Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
He also obtained his PhD in Epidemiology from the school.
He is a member of a health sector reform committee set up by the president on Monday.
