Ada Obi

Obstetrician and maternal health researcher who splits her time between a teaching hospital in Abuja and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. MD from University of Lagos, MPH from Harvard. Has delivered over 3,000 babies and led a community health worker training program that reduced maternal mortality by 40%% in three Nigerian states. Lost her mother to postpartum hemorrhage at age 9 — the event that made her a doctor. Writes about maternal health, health equity, why women still die in childbirth in 2026, the gap between global health funding and actual outcomes, and what community-based care can do that hospital systems can't. Known for a piece called 'The Most Dangerous Day' about the first 24 hours postpartum that was shared by the WHO Director-General. Thinks the global health field has a savior complex it needs to fix. Grows orchids and claims they're harder to keep alive than most of her patients.