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 JOSHUA OLUWATOBI OWOLABI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Bowen University Iwo | Iwo, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 17 & UNAI 6
" I am driven by the quest to leave an delible mark on the medical career path I have chosen. Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship affords to me the knowledge and skill sets from a community of impact driven individuals. The skills I gain, will help me create more impact in my social work in the healthcare space in my country in alignment with the UNAI principles and SDGs. I am excited by the opportunities for developing new and collaborative solutions. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: THE THEMIS PROJECT
The project involves organisation of events and advocacy at all levels of stakeholders to involved in the healthcare delivery pipeline on my university campus and state in which the my school is located in. The aim is to ensure that all levels of the healthcare delivery pipeline is sensitized to the problems at hand, and then advocate for policies within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to fix these problems. These events are outlined below: Students: Organisation of campus wide events where all future stakeholders in the healthcare delivery (Medical, Law, Finance, Engineering and Social arts) students are sensitized to the problems with healthcare operations and delivery in the system and the urgent need for change. Recruitment of interested students from each departments shall follow. University administration: Advocation for introduction of health operations and good health policy programmes to be added as an extracurricular program for all concerned students. School local community: Organise community wide education and advocacy campaigns at community health centres and local governments in conjunction with the school administration. State: Advocacy at the state ministry of health to adopt United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on healthcare delivery in state's healthcare policies and operations.
About the Millennium Fellow
Joshua Oluwatobi Owolabi is a pace setting, visionary and tenacious 3rd year medical student at Bowen University, Nigeria. He was born, raised and currently resides in Nigeria. Ever since his teenage years, Joshua has shared a passion for collaborative leadership to build creative and sustainable solutions for perennial problems. His passion, borne out of first-hand experiences of an inefficient healthcare system in his country, fuels his continued dedication to this social action. He plans to launch a project aimed at capacity building in the healthcare space through collaborations with non-traditional stakeholders in contribution to the United Nation’s Sustainable Goals development.
