Meet Nigerian Born Award Winning Medical Doctor, Founder And CEO Of Melanin Medics

This is Dr Olamide Dada, a Nigerian born award winning Medical Doctor, Founder and CEO of Melanin Medics, UK’s largest intergenerational network for current and future African and Caribbean doctors.

She started Melanin Medics as an online platform having realised that there were very few African and Caribbean students in medical schools across the UK.

The online platform soon grew to become a nationally recognised charitable organisation which aims to promote diversity in Medicine, widen aspirations and aid career progression.

Dr Olamide is an advocate for youth social action and continues to amalgamate her two passions, medicine and social equality, in order to positively influence and inspire the next generation.

She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh) in Medicine from Cardiff University. Her education and experiences in leadership further introduced her to current health policy debates and medico-political issues, sparking her interest specifically in healthcare leadership and the opportunities to bring about change and put forward solutions to benefit the health sector.

Olamide is passionate about racial equality in Medicine, tackling ethnic inequalities in health, leadership, widening participation and empowering young people.

In 2018, Olamide received the Rare Rising Star Award at the House of Commons having been recognised as one of the Top 10 Black students in the UK, she was also recognised as one of the Powerlist Media Top 100 Future Leaders 2018 and welcomed to No.10 Downing Street as a result. Olamide was a recipient for the Akindolie Medical Scholarship awarded to minority ethnic medical students with strong leadership potential.

In 2020, Olamide received a Rare Rising Star in Healthcare award from We Are the City.

Source: Women Impacting Nigeria

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