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 ALIMAT ORIYOMI SANGOSANYA, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Lagos State University Ikeja | Ikeja, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it aligns perfectly with my passion for making healthcare more accessible and understandable to the public. As a medical student, I have seen how ignorance about common health conditions can lead to suffering which is quite preventable, and I believe that awareness is a powerful tool for change.
Through my past experiences such as participating in community health outreaches and my just concluded 10-day psychiatry awareness challenge on LinkedIn, I've realised the impact that awareness about different health condition can have on people’s lives. The Millennium Fellowship provides me with a platform to expand these efforts, collaborate with like-minded peers, and develop sustainable initiatives, such as our planned hepatitis and hypertension awareness campaigns.
I see the Fellowship as an opportunity to strengthen my ability to bridge the gap between medicine and society, while contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Be Hepa and Hyper Aware
‘Be Hepa and Hyper Aware’ is a project that focuses on hepatitis and hypertension awareness.I and my fellow co founders,Animashaun AhmadTijani and Abdus-salam Fatiha, plan to create awareness about the deadly hepatitis virus and the silent killer,hypertension in local communities. Our primary focus would be the elderly and secondary schools students.We plan to educate the students about these diseases,encourage them to take preventive measures and also get vaccinated against the hepatitis virus so that the knowledge would be beneficial to them as they become adults.The students would be encouraged to share this knowledge with their parents and friends,thus helping us with this advocacy. We plan to organize outreaches in 1 or more local communities to support this project.We would be checking Blood Pressure and Hepatitis B testing.During our outreach, we would sensitize our audience about these diseases,their risk factors,signs and symptoms,prevention and advise them to get vaccinated against hepatitis virus.We would give advices that are peculiar to individual test results and encourage seeing the doctor for further management when necessary. I and my fellow co founders hope to use this opportunity,the Millennium Fellowship to kickstart this project and we plan to continue this initiative by organizing at least one outreach every year.
About the Millennium Fellow
Alimat Oriyomi Sangosanya is a young, intelligent, and goal-oriented medical student. She was born in Lagos State, Nigeria, and is currently studying Medicine at Lagos State University College of Medicine. She is passionate about advocacy, bringing medicine to society, and enlightening the public about different health conditions. She has demonstrated this by engaging in various outreaches in local communities. She also recently concluded a 10-day psychiatry challenge on LinkedIn, where she shared information about different mental health conditions that are often misunderstood.
She and her colleagues intend to kick-start a hepatitis and hypertension awareness campaign and outreach programme through the Millennium Fellowship, with plans to continue it even after graduation. Alimat aspires to be a doctor who brings medicine closer to the community, reduces ignorance, and contributes to the achievement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
