Chinyere Okoye
16 December 2008
book review
Lagos — A book titled: Academics, Epidemics and Politics (an eventful career in public health) by Prof Idris Mohammed will be launched on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at the Shehu Musa Yar'Adua Center, Abuja.
The book, which gives lucid views on questions and topics of profound importance such as the practice of medicine in an unjust world, the role of globalization in impoverishing Africa and the unraveling of the unsavoury practices at the National Programme on Immunisation (NPI) as well as the current controversies generated by the clinical trial of Trovafloxacin by Pfizer in 1996, has 17 chapters.
The chapters include: The Early Life; The Power of New Knowledge; Perspectives on Medicine and Academia; Postgraduate Academic/Professional Training; Service in Bauchi State; Serving at the Ahmadu Bello University; The University of Maiduguri Sojourn; The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital; One Success Story; Other Successes; The Downside; Clinical Trial of Travoflaxacin (Trovan) in Kano; Immunisation in Nigeria; Global Politics and Public Health; Adventures in Politics; Leaders, Benefactors and Friends; and A Task That Must Be Done.
The foreword of the book is written by Alhaji Yusuf Maitama-Sule.
According to a release by Bookcraft, signed by Ebimondi Nwaogu, the author, Prof Mohammed, had a distinguished career as an academic, researcher, clinical public health physician and administrator. The release also said Mohammed had been involved in landmark healthcare events in the country.
The book attempts to answer questions like the importance of academic medicine to finding a way out of the nation's health problems; and "contemporary Nigerian history and why the health of the nation, and indeed Africa, is in the unfortunate state that it is".
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