Adenike Grange [SEP] sex or gender
the author of over fifty scientific papers, mainly on diarrhoeal and nutritional conditions in children. She served as President of the International Paediatric Association.
In her long career, she became known as a strong voice in the fight to improve the health of children.
Minister of Health.
On 25 July 2007, Adenike Grange was appointed the Minister of Health of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, the first female Minister of Health.
On 9 November 2007, Professor Adenike Grange gave the Lancet Lecture at the UCL
Adenike Grange
Adenike Grange is a former Nigerian Minister in charge of the Federal Ministry of Health.
Background.
Adenike Grange attended high school in Lagos and then at St. Francis' College, Letchworth in the United Kingdom. From 1958 to 1964 she studied medicine at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She worked in Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham before returning to Nigeria in 1965, where she continued to work in hospitals in Lagos. She returned to the UK in 1967 
and became senior house officer (paediatrics