Sheriff Gbadamosi
Health Policy, Advocacy, and Storytelling in Abuja, Nigeria
Sheriff is a Global Development Expert, Consultant, and SDGs Champion, whose journey began as a volunteer health worker with the Lagos State Ministry of Health and Primary Health Care Board. From those early days in primary healthcare, he has risen to lead groundbreaking interventions across more than 100 health facilities, helping shape solutions that improve lives at scale.
As National Coordinator and Co-founder of the Sustainable Development Goals Awareness Initiative (SDGsAI), Sheriff designed and launched the impactful SDGs on Campus program. What started at Lagos State University is now thriving in over 10 institutions across Nigeria, from the University of Lagos to Bayero University, Kano, igniting a new wave of student-led change across the country.
Sheriff is a proud alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, Lions Club International, Consultant at Scout Association of Nigeria, and Teach SDGs Ambassador, actively shaping global learning communities. His work has reached thousands of youth, empowering them to localize the SDGs and lead impact-driven projects on and off campus.
In the global health space, Sheriff has held strategic roles with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), where he managed projects to strengthen community health systems, reduce maternal mortality, and build disease surveillance capacity in collaboration with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) and Japan National Instittiue of Infectious Disease (NIID).
Sheriff serves as the Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager at Nigeria Health Watch, where he’s championing health equity and citizen-led accountability through storytelling, media, and policy engagement.
He also brings his values to the business world as a Copywriting and Brand Strategy Consultant at Halliday Consulting, helping small business owners communicate with clarity and market their brands with confidence.
Sheriff’s mantra is “Network. Innovate. Transform.”And he lives it every day.