On the 19th of July 2023, the chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses & Midwives Lagos State Council Comrade Olurotimi Awojide with the State Secretary Comrade Oloruntoba Odumosu paid a courtesy visit to D.G NIMR and also discussed on research in Nursing and Nurses welfare in NIMR.
Group photograph of the Director-General, NIMR in person of Professor Babatunde Lawal with Prof David Sack, from the Department of International Health John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, USA.
Prof David Sack visited NIMR on 6th July 2023 for discussion on areas of future infectious disease research collaboration with NIMR.
Other NIMR staff in the picture. Mr Monsur Olorungbebe, Dr. Iwalokun BA, Dr. Akinsinde Kehinde (The convener)
Director-General, NIMR honouring Prof. David Sack as a distinguished visiting researcher to the institute.
The Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Babatunde Salako, says establishing a Medical Research Council (MRC) will provide opportunities to solve health challenges locally.
Mr Salako said this while speaking during a meeting with stakeholders in Abuja on Tuesday, noting that the research council will also address funding challenges restricting research in the country.
He said countries with existing medical research councils have opportunities to focus on the variance of health challenges.
???Globally, the medical research council funds medical research and the advantage is that countries, where they exist, can actually focus on the variance of health challenges that are affecting the people and providing solutions,??? he said.
Mr Salako noted that health research contributes most to human development worldwide; hence the government must key into it.
