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Hajara Niima Kera

Department of Community Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

Hajara Niima Kera

Hajara Niima Kera, MBBS, MWACP
Resident, Department of Community Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
niimakera@gmail.com

I was born on the 21st December 1977. I graduated from the Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria in the year 2004 with a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery (MBBS) degree. While in my second year of medical school some of my school mates and I came together to set up the Youth Society for Prevention of Infectious diseases and Social Vices (YOSPIS), a civil society organization that focuses on social issues affecting  health. I have been involved in outreaches to various communities and have hosted a number of talk shows concerning the health of women and children while I was the public relations officer of the Medical Women’s’ Association of Nigeria, Gombe state Chapter. I have been a facilitator for numerous trainings for health workers on maternal and child health issues.

 I worked with Save the Children UK during which I was involved in a campaign to raise awareness on the state of undernutrition in Nigeria together with the British Prime Minister’s wife, Mrs. Samantha Cameron. I am a recipient of the 2012 REAL award for frontline health worker by the frontline health workers coalition, Save the Children and White Ribbon Alliance. Currently, as a senior registrar in the department of community medicine Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, in addition to our academic activities I am involved in the teaching and mentoring of medical students. I also sit on the board of the White Ribbon Alliance for safe motherhood in Nigeria.

I am a mother, maternal and child health advocate and aspiring expert.

I am fluent in English and Hausa.

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