ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT MATTHEW AYOMIDE ABIODUN, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Ambrose Alli University | Zaria, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 6, SDG 4 & UNAI 9
" The love and belief in me by my family, leaders, mentors, and my immediate community has shaped me to strive to become a man of excellence, and not only that, but also an agent of transformation, instrumental in the promotion of a better and healthier community, doing all I can to give back to the community that made me who I am. This has been my driving force, and as a Millennium Fellow, I believe I will learn to be a better leader, be more strategic in touching my community in the best way, while they see me become the better person they have always perceived I would be. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The HEART Project
The HEART (Health Education and Antimicrobial Resistance) Project is a project focused on providing general health education and addressing the abuse and misuse of antimicrobials, especially antibiotics in our community, sociocultural practices that promote antimicrobial resistance, and promoting practices that prevent development of antimicrobial resistance.
Moving through the wards of the hospital—the medical, surgical, obstetrics and gynaecology wards, intensive care unit, and other wards—one would duly note the peculiarity of cases where patients, debilitatingly ill due to infection, and every antibiotic available prove ineffective due to any of the reasons above, superbugs or resistant microbes develop in such conditions and increase the burden on caregivers and the whole health community. Many people in the community lack adequate knowledge on general and personal hygiene, and this project seeks to address this knowledge gap and encourage healthy practices for a healthier community and also to address and educate more people about the harmful effect of self-medication, not using drugs as prescribed by physicians, living unhygienically, lack of hand hygiene, and the inappropriate use of antibiotics in animals (which can be transferred to man through contact or feeding on).
GOALS
We will be doing virtual and physical campaigns. • The virtual campaign reach limit cannot be decided at the moment but a lot of people will be reached, with a minimum of 200 people, through the use of appealing infographics and/or videos on different social media platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
• The physical campaign will take two forms: -The Market Campaign, which will estimate a minimum of 100 reach; • School Campaign, which will reach a minimum of 100 students; and The school and market campaign will also include hand hygiene supplies and the giving of flyers, which will significantly increase the reach above the 200 estimated. It is important to note that the reach of the project could significantly exceed the 400 minimum estimated reach as the numbers are the very minimum possible.
About the Millennium Fellow
Matthew Ayomide Abiodun is a 5th-year student doctor at Ambrose Alli University, affiliated with Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH), passionate about clinical excellence and public health advocacy.
Started his social impact journey 3 years ago with notable achievements in promoting global One Health. His interests include AMR, infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Matthew is a young leader in student and non-student organizations. He is also passionate about research and promoting high-quality visuals for health advocacy.
He aspires to be a surgeon with a special interest in AI and robotics, promoting equitable access to health technology innovation.
