Our Writers
Content and Research Associate 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.
Background
Fawzi Rufai (he/him)studied Public Health at Osun 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 Content and Research Associate, his 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.
He writes and researches. Clinical accuracy is signed off by a licensed pharmacist, named on every article.
Credentials and role
How our articles are produced
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.
Every article is reviewed by Pharm. Sesan Kareem, PCN Reg. 019784, before it is published. His name and registration number appear on the article.
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.
A pharmacist answers directly. If we have got something wrong, we want to know.