Uford S. Inyang has dedicated his entire professional career as a loyal civil servant to his native country, the Federal Republic of Nigeria. After receiving the bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the Howard University College of Pharmacy in 1973, and the Ph.D. in pharmacology from the Howard University College of Medicine in 1978, Dr. Inyang returned to Nigeria . There, in 1980, he was appointed Principal Drug Registrar, Drug Regulatory Division, Federal Ministry of Health, Yaba, Lagos . Over the next 26 years, he served as Deputy Director and, later, Director, Department of Health Sciences, Federal Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST); Head of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, FMST; Executive Secretary, West African Pharmaceutical Federation; Project Manager and Coordinator, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD); and Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, FMST.

Dr. Inyang assumed his current position of Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of NIPRD in 2001, and was reappointed last year for a second term by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

As a scholar, Dr. Inyang has conducted extensive research and has over twenty-seven (27) scientific publications and presentations to his credit. He holds memberships in several major national and international professional organizations, to name a few: the Nigerian Association of Academic Pharmacists, the West African Society of Pharmacology, the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association, the International Pharmaceutical Federation, the National Anti-Retroviral Drug Committee of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, and the Steering Coordinating Committee of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In 1994 Dr. Inyang was a Thomas Jefferson Fellow at the Pharmacists and Continuing Education (PACE) Center of Howard University Continuing Education . He has received many honors and recognitions throughout his long and distinguished career. Both the West African Pharmaceutical Federation (WAPF) and the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria named him Fellow. He also is a recipient of the WAPF Pioneer Award, the Mrs. Clavenda Bright-Parker Award, for outstanding contributions to the WAPF.

Director-General Inyang serves on several distinguished federal government boards, including those of the National Institute of Medical Research Nigeria, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, and the Governing Board of NIPRD. As the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) of the Global Fund, he has successfully sourced over 400 million dollars in grants from Global Funds to help the Nigerian government manage HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

For several years, Dr. Uford S. Inyang has served as a key colleague for the PACE Center in Nigeria . He has served as the regional coordinator for the Anglophone West Africa Pharmacists HIV/AIDS project and as Project Advisor for the GHAIN project. The latter is the largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS project ever implemented in a single developing country. Under the leadership of Family Health International, GHAIN supports the Nigerian government's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach. The project is funded by President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, through the U.S. Agency for International Development. As a collaborating partner in the project, Howard University Continuing Education PACE Center s eeks to demonstrate through continuing education and innovative training methods the strategic role of pharmacists in achieving the goals of the project.

GHAIN is helping to meet the Emergency Plan's goals to treat more than 68,000 people with antiretroviral drugs, to provide 1.5 million people with HIV care, and to prevent 800,000 new infections in Nigeria by 2009. To ensure a comprehensive response to the epidemic, GHAIN works closely with other Emergency Plan partners in Nigeria and HIV/AIDS organizations.

To date, over 200 pharmacists in 10 sites in 5 states and the Federal Capital Territory have been trained by HUCE/PACE staff. Several of the pharmacy organizations in Nigeria have applauded the GHAIN project because it has taken a giant step in the involvement of pharmacists in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In February of this year, NIPRID agreed to an even more active role with the PACE Center in the pharmacy component of the project. Since NIPRID also sponsors continuing education programs in Abuja , NIPRID and the PACE Center will now join to lead in-country training efforts for pharmacists involved in the GHAIN project.

Howard University Continuing Education/Pharmacists and Continuing Education (PACE) CenterGlobal HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria (GHAIN) Project and The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center of Howard University

present

A Meeting with
Uford S. Inyang, Ph.D.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
9:00 a.m.
The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center
Howard University
2218 Sixth Street, NW
Washington , D.C. 20059

Welcome
Peggy A. Berry, Ph.D.
Director
Howard University Continuing Education
and
Ambassador Horace G. Dawson, Jr.
Director
The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center

Introduction of Visitor
Rosalyn C. King, Pharm.D., M.P.H.
Project Director
HUCE/PACE-GHAIN

Distinguished Visitor
Uford S. Inyang
Director-General and C.E.O.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development
Federal Republic of Nigeria

Dialogue

Closing Remarks
Dr. King

Discussion will continue on the second floor, where lunch and coffee will be served.


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