Dr Fajembola's Opinions'

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: THE DECAY AND SOLUTION. So much talk globally about tertiary institutions not allowing Muslim ladies observe the hijab and it does not make sense looking at it from any angle. My parents almost sent me to a catholic medical school in India, because of religious tolerance. I strongly believe a lot of the work is done from home, academic institutions are supplements on religious knowledge.  I went to Christian primary schools & you can't compare me with some who went to Muslim schools when we got to secondary level, It's like comparing grey and white if not black and white.  Charity begins at home not at school, the mistake some parents make is leaving everything to faith-based academic institutions. I went to an Islamic University, I do tell people I went to christian schools and they are shocked cos it looks like I went to muslim schools, faith-based schools are nothing if you do not train your child at home. Religious exposure makes your children be...

Salient points from Week 34; 1. This publication was built on a blog from the lead author, probably additional information will be added to this in the nearest future, which will be great.  2. It has a rich list of authors and contributors, majority are from the global south. 3. Global Health is multidisciplinary in as much as we don't want to confuse it with one health and other facets of health.  4. There are no selfish goals when joining global health. Healthcare involves humanitarianism. 5. Global health expertise assessment is devoid of financial weight, racism, geographical region among other indices. 6. There is more to global health than publications, interact with people and impact lives positively.  7. There are more global health experts in the global south than acknowledged. 8. A global health expert is forever a student. Be open to learn and work with anyone to make the dream work. Conclusion: The now and future generation of global health advocates from the ...

 Salient points from week 35.  1. This publication is mainly on urbanization and it complications on global health, heat waves specifically. 2. How we've chosen esthetics over one health. 3. Urban areas contribute less than 2% of the earth surface but 71-76% of global greenhouse carbondioxide emissions.  4. It reminded me of the HLPF event by UN Habitat, discussing urbanization and resistant mechanisms. 5. We are in an anthropocentric century. 6. Heat waves as a public health dilemma affecting all age groups and genders.  7.It increases the workload on the health sector by worsening underlying medical conditions.  8. Global surface temperature has increased by 1.09 degrees from 2001 -2020. 9. Effect of heat wave is the excessive flooding we are experiencing across the global north and south, making countries lose a huge part of their economies.  10. Heat waves have a negative effect on water security which in turn affects the health of the populace through ...

 The World Health Organization marked May 2023 the end of the Coronavirus Disease-19 as a public health emergency (PHE), global citizens are now more familiar and less disturbed about the Coronavirus Disease -19. In countries like the global north in Nigeria, citizens have gradually continued their normal lives unlike when the first case was detected on 27th February, 2020. The muslim believers celebrate two eids in a year; the Eidl-Adha and Eidl-Fitr which is known to be colourful, full of joy and a source of pride to the muslims. According to the Pew Research Center, the muslim population in Nigeria is the fifth largest in the world, collating to at least 90 million citizens out of over 200 million people. This illustrates that almost half the population of Nigerians have celebrated at least 6 major religious celebrations in a pandemic,  this had socio-economic as well as psychological effects on the wellbeing of muslims.  To begin with, the effect of a pandemic such as...

It is time we begin to acknowledge the fact that whatever affects humans will affect animals and the environment, whatever affects the hydrosphere will definately affect the lithosphere and atmosphere. Some of us cringe at the on-going climate change but we fail to acknowledge the fact that it's a product of all our collective actions across decades. As a one health advocate, I am optimistic the physical and virtual attendees of COP27 and One Health Congress while discussing climate change and focusing on environmental health, will acknowledge that it is impossible to ignore animal health and human health in proffering solutions to our current crisis. There were "talks", there are "talks" and there will be more "talks" in every health- climate change space if we do not solve our problems with a collaborative lens. It is important to note that when we transform education, we transform advocacy, policies and implementation strategies. In an infodemic era...

  To the common man, some names are only known when a good or bad event happens in the country, and I am a common man. The first time for majority of Nigerians to hear the name FEMI OSIBONA was when a supposed pioneer building, first of its kind, to be built in Nigeria collapsed. There must be a scape goat, Nigerians love responsibility especially when the situation is not favorable, nobody loves to take the bad name, suddenly the name which the common man doesn’t know became a household name, a man who wasn’t celebrated in Nigeria when he was making feats across the globe is now being talked about but that’s our country and how our system works, even the Government doesn’t like to be the scape goat. Naturally, I am a person who doesn’t like shallow thinking , shallow ideas, moving with the crowd and I don’t do it, so, I set aside my busy table to do some research because its pure wickedness not to know someone and hang him because lives are involved. So, what is special about ...