Dr. Tunji Funsho, chair of Rotary’s Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, is recognized as New African Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Africans of 2020 for his work to rid the African region of the wild poliovirus.
He was the driving force behind the program to eradicate polio from its last African redoubt in Nigeria. After a long career as a Lagos-based cardiologist, Funsho was meant to be enjoying his retirement but with polio still rampant and causing paralysis in children across Nigeria, he spearheaded Rotary International’s effort to get millions of doses of the polio vaccine to children across the country. Read more