About Folu Olatona

Professor Folu Olatona is a consultant public health physician, nutritionist, author and conference speaker whose career spans twenty-five years of clinical medicine and public health practice. In 2013, Nestlé Nutrition Institute Africa named her Africa's Best Health Care Professional in Community Nutrition.

She earned her PhD in Nutrition from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her doctoral research developed a blended learning programme addressing body mass index, body image, weight management and disordered eating among female undergraduates in Lagos State. She also holds master's degrees in Public Health and in Human Nutrition & Dietetics, and a postgraduate degree in Paediatric Nutrition from Boston University School of Medicine, USA. She is an associate fellow of the West African Postgraduate Medical College and a fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

As a faculty member of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, she has published 60 scientific papers on nutrition and wider public health. Her commitment to healthy living has also produced four books for general readers: Healthy Diet and Weight Control Tips, Rich or Poor, Your Child Can Be Malnourished, Stress Less, Enjoy Better Health and Eat Healthy, Spend Less.

She is the CEO of Pro-Healthy Living Consultant, a leading wellness organisation that has been running for fifteen years (www.pro-healthyliving.com). She gives keynote talks on healthy lifestyles in Nigeria and abroad, and is a regular guest on television and radio programmes across Nigeria.

She is married with children.