About Tokunbo & Dapo Williams Foundation
Our Mission
At Tokunbo & Dapo Williams Foundation, our mission is to contribute to capacity building in Public Health in Nigeria by sponsoring a PH resident physician from Nigeria to study for a one-year MPH program at a top 10 US school of public health. We hope to be able to raise enough funds to do this every year.
Our History
Tokunbo & Dapo Williams foundation was founded in 2021 and it is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. Below is a background to why we formed the foundation. I, Adedapo Williams, am an MD MPH originally from Nigeria. I am an attending psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, Riverside. My wife, Tokunbo Williams MD, and I established this foundation that aims to sponsor a suitably qualified physician in residency training in Public Health in Nigeria to study at a top US university for an MPH. This will be for one physician per year.
I attended the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Nigeria where I obtained my medical degree in 1987 and subsequently went into PH residency training at the same institution in 1989. I applied for a master's degree program in Biostatistics and was offered admission at Johns Hopkins University in 1990 but I was unable to attend because I could not secure a scholarship. Subsequently, my career progressed in a different direction.
Nigeria has a huge need for skilled public health physicians and we would like to avail some brilliant Nigerian physicians who are training in public health, who have completed at least 2 years of their PH training and have passed two of the three required postgraduate examinations in Nigeria, the opportunity to study at a top 10 SPH in the US and to return to Nigeria to complete their residency training and subsequently to practice and help in capacity building.