Paul Adepoju is a Nigerian-scientist-turned-journalist and communications expert with vast and robust reporting experience in science, health, tech, development and their intersections.

Over the years, he has built a successful career in telling previously ignored or underreported Africa-relevant stories for various major outlets including leading science and health publications. He also works with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) as the Community Manager for the ICFJ Pamela Howard Forum on Global Crisis Reporting through which he is helping journalists across the world to improve their crisis reporting skills.

So far in his career, he has worked as a freelance journalist for various prestigious publications such as the British Medical Journal, Business Insider, Devex, CNN, Scientific American, New Scientist, Quartz, Nature, The Lancet, Health Policy Watch, among others. He contributes to the Harvard Public Health Magazine and leads the team at Nigeria’s foremost health news platform, healthnews.ng, where he is coordinating editorial activities and commissioning stories to a vast network of journalists.

Paul holds a PhD in Cell Biology & Genetics from Nigeria's premier university, the University of Ibadan. He has received numerous awards for his works, including the 2021 Online News Association (ONA)’s Community Award for supporting journalists in 134 countries to cover the COVID-19 pandemic; he won the Association of British Science Writers Monthly Showcase Award for excellence in science writing for July and September 2022; he has also won several reporting grants. Paul mentors; he has also participated in various fellowships and training, and has attended, spoken at, and moderated sessions at several major science and health conferences.