{"id":2552,"date":"2023-06-06T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/?post_type=rwexperts&p=2552"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:44:07","slug":"meed-dr-anita-kemi-dasilva-ibru","status":"publish","type":"rwexperts","link":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/rwexperts\/meed-dr-anita-kemi-dasilva-ibru\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemi DaSilva-Ibru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Career & Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anita Kemi DaSilva-Ibru is a specialist healthcare physician who is dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through medical practice, social activism and wider public advocacy against gender-based violence.<\/p>\n

Dr DaSilva-Ibru is a consultant specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as a public health physician, with over 20 years\u2019 experience in private practice. She is also the founder of the Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a non-profit organization that addresses the prevalence of gender-based violence, rape and the trafficking of young girls and women across Nigeria. Through this work, she has become a recognized thought leader in the field of women\u2019s health internationally, and her 2020 TED talk on the \u2018shadow pandemic\u2019 has gained a global audience.<\/p>\n

Her educational qualifications include an Obstetrics and Gynaecology specialisation from Howard University , Washington DC , a Master\u2019s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and as accurately stated \u00a0an on-going PhD \u00a0in Gender Violence at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<\/p>\n

DaSilva-Ibru has been recognized with several awards, including Leading Ladies Africa \u2018100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria\u2019 in 2018; recognition by the British Council in Nigeria and Her Network’s 2019 \u2018Woman of the Year in Advocacy.\u2019 In 2020, she was recognised as one of the CNN COVID Heroes and Newsmakers.<\/p>\n

Skills Utilisation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. DaSilva-Ibru is a specialist in human fertility, maternal care, paediatrics and IVF treatment. She is an invaluable source for all things relating to maternal health, human fertility, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2631,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"rwsectors":[],"class_list":["post-2552","rwexperts","type-rwexperts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rwexperts"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/2552\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rwsectors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwsectors?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}