Services

Digital & Influencer Marketing

Access and engage the best health influencers for your campaign to achieve your set goals at the best rates. We put you in front of your audience; you call it advertising.

Health & PR Consulting

Link traditional and new media for healthcare promotion. Tell brand stories at the right time, in the right way, and with the right media. Let us position and project your work.

Social Media Strategy & Management

Get top-skilled social media managers for content scheduling, social media design, video and blog content creation, analytics, monitoring, and audience engagement.

Public Speaking Engagements

Health Webinars? Seminar facilitators? Panel Moderators? Comperes? Social media live chats? Let us connect you with the right speaker for your programme through our network.

Training

We offer training for health professionals and staff to innovatively use digital and social media for brand growth and an improved customer experience. It’s one thing to have the message; it’s another to convey it.

Policy Development

Get experienced feedback on health policy development that guarantees impact for every developmental efforts based on acquired evidence-based data.

For social media campaigns and media engagements

Brief Profile

Dr. Chioma Nwakanma-Akanno is a reproductive healthcare physician, public speaker, and advocate. She’s the founder of Medically Speaking Services and the Creative Director of @DrZobo, a prominent virtual health literacy and advocacy platform dedicated to improving the health and rights of African women and adolescents through witty visual storytelling.

She is the Executive Director of the SMILE With Me Foundation, a non-profit organisation that leverages digital technology to provide underserved women and adolescents with quality and affordable preventive reproductive healthcare services. Since 2017, her NGO has focused on four critical areas: STI and cervical cancer prevention, Menstrual hygiene management, contraceptive care, and Gender-Based Violence Mitigation and Response.

She holds certifications in 'Leadership and Management in Healthcare' from the University of Washington, 'Research' from Harvard Medical School, GBViE from American University Yola, and Civic Engagement from the University of Delaware, USA. She’s a Reproductive and Sexual Health Research MSC candidate at LSHTM and a recipient of the prestigious Chevening UK Scholarship.

Dr Chioma's achievements include being a YALI RLC West Africa alumnus, a Mandela Washington Fellow, a Publicity Secretary of the MWF Alumni Association of Nigeria, and a digital health influencer for the International Centre for Journalism Knights Fellows. As a health comms expert, she has successfully executed multiple public health advocacy projects in partnership with local multilateral and UN organizations.

Adding to her laurels, she was honoured as the UNDP Geneva changemaker for SGS Geneva 2021, a 2-time Healthcare finalist of the Future Awards Africa, a 2019 recipient of the Lords’ Achievers Award for her work in SRHR, a 2021 recipient of the Royal African Awards, Guardian Woman 2024 and listed as one of the most powerful and influential young Nigerians under 40. She is a cohort member of the 2023 Leap Women Africa programme for women in tech.

These achievements, among many others, affirm her status as a true trailblazer—a guiding light inspiring change and progress in Nigeria’s healthcare sector.

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Awards & Recognitions

  • 2024 Health Advocate of the Year, Private Sector Health Alliance (PSHAN) Awards

  • Mandela Washington Fellow. 2023

  • Social Media Innovation Award, Voice of Women Awards. 2023

  • Oncology Volunteer of the Year, Project Pink Blue. 2022

  • Lagos State Government commendation/award #EkoWomen100. 2022

  • Nominee, Social Media Influencer of the Year, Women’s Choice Awards Africa. Nov 2021

  • Most Influential Young Person in Lagos State, Lagos State Youth Parliament. Nov 2021

  • Award of Excellence, Olabisi Onabanjo University Medical Students Association. July 2021

  • Recipient, Royal African Leaders Award by the Royal court of Ooni of Ife. May 2021

  • Leading Ladies Africa, 100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria. March 2021

  • UNDP ambassador, SDG Finance Geneva Summit. 2020/2021

  • Future Awards Africa Nominee, Prize of Health and Wellness. October 2020

  • “100 Most Powerful Nigerian Youth under-40,” Influencer category, by YNaija. July 2020

  • Listed “Top 20 Opinion Leaders on Twitter Nigeria,” by Hedge Report. December 2019

  • Honouree, National Healthcare Category by LORDS Achievers Awards. March 2019

  • State Commendation for work in women’s health - Abia State. 2018

  • Recipient, Agbami Medical and Engineering Professionals’ Undergraduate Scholarship. 2011 - 2016

Affiliation & Membership

  1. 2020/2021 Digital Influencer, International Center for Journalism (ICFJ) Knights

  2. Coalition of CSOs against Cervical Cancer.

  3. Member, Women in Global Health Nigeria

  4. Member, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA)

  5. Member, Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN)

  6. Member, Medical Women Association Of Nigeria (MWAN)

  7. Alumni, YALI RLC, West Africa.

  8. Member, Royal Awards Medical Organisation

  9. Member, Mandela Health Initiative

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