Nigerian Physician, Ogoina, Makes TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ List

Nigerian Physician and Professor of Medicine, Dimie Ogoina, has been listed by TIME magazine as one of the ‘100 most influential people in the world’ in 2023 along with President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

TIME described Ogoina as a passionate champion for global health equity, who has advocated for Monkeypox prevention towards avoiding a global outbreak.

The American news magazine listed the 100 world’s most influential people under six categories namely: Artists, Icons, Leaders, Pioneers, Titans and Innovators.

Ogoina along with French international footballer, Kylian Mpappe, were among the 15 innovators on the TIME list.

Writing about Ogoina, the magazine said: “In 2017, when Dr. Dimie Ogoina sounded the alarm on a new presentation of Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) that he was seeing in his home country of Nigeria, the world wasn’t ready to listen.

Recognizing the importance and potential implications for global spread, he persisted, documenting the potential for sexual transmission of Mpox and publishing the data in high-impact scientific journals. As the global Mpox outbreak unfolded in 2022, Dimie’s insights became critically important to developing better strategies to prevent and control outbreaks.”