HEALTHEnabulele makes history, becomes first Nigerian elected World Medical Association Standing Committee chairman

A former President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele has been elected the Chairman of the Socio-Medical Affairs Committee of the World Medical Association.Dr. Enabulele becomes first Nigerian elected WMA Standing Committee chairman.

At the election which held during the 212th Council meeting of the World Medical Association, WMA, on Friday, 26th April, 2019 in Santiago, Chile, Dr. Enabulele was unanimously elected, thus making him the first Nigerian to ever hold such an enviable position since the WMA was founded in 1947.Following his election, Dr. Enabulele is now a member of the Executive Committee of the WMA.

The WMA has only three standing committees and SMAC is one of them.

The Socio-Medical Affairs Committee (SMAC) is saddled with the responsibility of handling/ presiding over global issues bordering on social-medical affairs, including right based issues in healthcare, social determinants of health and all other issues bordering on non-ethical aspects of medicineIn his remarks, Dr. Enabulele thanked members of the WMA for reposing great confidence in him and electing him to head such an important global platform. He assured them that he will, under no circumstance, betray the confidence reposed in him.

Dr. Enabulele equally assured members that though he is the sole African representative serving on the WMA Council, his global work as SMAC Chairman will be carried beyond Nigeria and Africa, for the benefit of citizens of the world.In his words, “My team and I shall work tirelessly to provide far reaching solutions to global issues bordering on social-medical affairs, including right based issues in healthcare.Between 2017 and April 25, 2019, Dr. Osahon Enabulele served as a member of the five-member Policy Review Committee of the World Medical Association (the only African member of the Committee). He is also a three time nominee for the office of President of the World Medical Association.

He is currently the Vice President of the Commonwealth Medical Association and the incoming President of the Commonwealth Medical Association.

He is also the coordinator of the Coalition of African National Medical Associations (made up of all National Medical Associations in the African region).