[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/joseph-ana-41-funeral-yesterday-and-ric... ]
Dear Neil,
It is wonderful you and your wife were able to attend Joseph Ana’s funeral. His commitment to improving health services in Nigeria through Primary Health Care was exemplary. I loved reading his contributions to HIFA. Also facilitating the Nigerian community in the UK to come together and to support Nigeria is a great example to other diaspora.
Many thanks for also sharing Richard Smith’s obituary. [ https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s953 ]
Best wishes
Liz
HIFA profile: Elizabeth Mason is former Director of the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA) in WHO. She is interested in how to provide quality health services for women and children, and how to extend the health system into the community. She spent 24 years living and working in Zimbabwe and worked across many countries of the African Region. She was a member of the Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, EWEC, which reported on progress towards the UNSG Global Strategy for Woman, Children and Adolescents, upto 2022.She is currently chair of the Faculty of Public Health UK, Global Health Committee. masonelizabeth108 AT gmail.com