Fawsi Rufai
Medical Writer at HubPharm Africa. Public health graduate writing the medicine and condition articles on this site, from the population level down to the single patient trying to understand their own prescription.
Public health training, applied to one patient at a time
Fawsi studied Public Health at Kwara State University, a discipline that trains you to think in populations. Who gets sick, why, and what actually changes the number. That framing sits behind a great deal of what HubPharm publishes, because most of the medicine access problem in Nigeria is not clinical, it is systemic.
As Medical Writer, the daily work is narrower. Take a medicine, a condition or a treatment decision, and write it so that a patient in Lagos or Kano can understand what it does, what it costs them, what to watch for and when to ask for help. Public health training makes the context easier to get right. It does not make the clinical detail safe on its own, which is why nothing is published unreviewed.
Fawsi writes and researches. Clinical accuracy is signed off by a licensed pharmacist, named on every article.
- QualificationPublic Health graduate, Kwara State University
- RoleMedical Writer, HubPharm AfricaMedicine and condition articles across the HubPharm blog
- FocusChronic disease, medicine access and treatment adherence in Nigeria
- Reviewed byPharm. Sesan Kareem, B.Pharm, MPA, MBAPCN Reg. 019784. Reviews every article before publication.
Written by a health writer, checked by a pharmacist
Researched and drafted
Our writers work from manufacturer prescribing information, regulatory sources such as NAFDAC and the World Health Organization, and published clinical evidence. Not from marketing copy.
Medically reviewed
Every article is reviewed by Pharm. Sesan Kareem, PCN Reg. 019784, before it is published. His name and registration number appear on the article.
Kept current
Articles are revisited when prescribing information changes, when a regulator issues a safety communication, or on a fixed review cycle.
On qualifications. Our writers are health science and public health graduates, not prescribing clinicians. They research and write. A licensed pharmacist reviews the clinical accuracy of every article before publication. We set out the whole process in our editorial and medical review policy.
Questions about anything we have written?
A pharmacist answers directly. If we have got something wrong, we want to know.