Dr. Olusola Aruna is a medically qualified Fellow of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health (FPH). Sola qualified as a doctor in 1984 from the University of Ife, Nigeria. She gained her Masters in Public Health (MPH) with distinction from the University of Leeds in 1996 as a British Chevening Scholar, and holds the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Sola also holds a postgraduate teaching certificate from the Centre for Medical Education of the University of Bristol. Prior to her specialist Public Health training in the UK, Sola had pursued a clinical career mainly in the field of Child Health and Paediatrics in Nigeria as well as in the Commonwealth of Dominica (West Indies) where she worked as a District Medical Officer. She also worked in a multi-stakeholder environment at directorate level in the Nigerian health sector at the national level.
Sola was appointed in 2007, as Consultant in Public Health Medicine within the English National Health Service (NHS), where she worked until 2013, following which she worked in the same role with Gloucestershire County Council until 2017. From 2018 to 2025, she led the implementation of the UK Health Security Agency’s International Health Regulations (IHR) Strengthening Programme as Country Lead in Nigeria, also covering the West African Region. She is a keen amateur gardener and loves to dance.
