Maclawrence Kolapo Famuyiwa

Apapa General Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

Maclawrence Kolapo Famuyiwa, Bsc, MBBS, MPH, MBA
Principal Medical Officer/Deputy Director, Apapa General Hospital, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
maclawrencefamuyiwa@yahoo.com

I graduated from the College of Medicine, University of Lagos in 2002 with an MBBS degree. This was followed by an MPH and MBA from the same University of Lagos in 2006 and 2016, I am currently rounding up a PhD degree in public health from the Texila American University. I currently work at the chest clinic of the Apapa General Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria as a Chest Physician, and have been with the Lagos Health Service Commission, a parastatal under the Ministry of Health, Lagos State, Nigeria since June 2004. I was at the Solwezi General Hospital, Zambia, between 2009 and 2011, where I worked in their TB Clinic.I am versed in programatic and management aspects of public health with special interest in infectious diseases. I have published many research articles in peer reviewed journals.

Publications

• Famuyiwa MK. New Ways of Working: How Well are Public Hospital Staff in Nigeria Willing to be Knocked off Their Comfort Zones? South American Journal of Public Health, Mar 2017, 5 (1). DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.05.01.Art002. Available at: http://www.texilajournal.com/public-health/article/706-new-ways-of
• Famuyiwa MK. Prevalent Leadership Styles and their Compatibility to the New Ways of Working in General Hospitals in Nigeria. South American Journal of Public Health, Dec 2016, 4 (4). DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.04.04.Art056. Available at: http://www.texilajournal.com/public-health/article/682-prevalent-leadership-styles
• Famuyiwa MK. Staff satisfaction to the introduction of new ways of working in general hospitals in Nigeria. South American Journal of Public Health, Jun 2016, 4 (2). DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.04.02.Art014. Available at: http://www.eijasr.com/index.php/SAJOPH/article/view/532.
• Famuyiwa MK. The Nigerian Health care workers’ attitude and knowledge of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. South American Journal of Public Health, May 2016, Special Edition. DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.04.02.Art025. Available at: http://www.texilajournal.com/public-health/article/357-the-nigerian-health
• Famuyiwa MK. Association of HIV to Pulmonary TB in chest clinic of a General Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. South American Journal of Public Health, Dec 2015, 3 (4). Available at: http://www.eijasr.com/index.php/SAJOPH/article/view/315
• Famuyiwa MK. The Perception of Nigerian traders about the symptoms and transmission of Ebola virus disease. South American Journal of Academic Research, Mar 2015. 2 (1). Available at: http://www.texilajournal.com/academic-research/article/141-the-perception-of
• Famuyiwa MK. Knowledge of public health ethics among medical doctors in Nigeria. South American Journal of Public Health, Sept 2014. 2 (3): 457-475. Available at: http://www.texilajournal.com/public-health/article/216-knowledge-of-public

Links

• Health Service Commission, Lagos State Government
• Ministry of Health, Lagos State Government
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