Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH

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Staff Physician-Community Health Center, Inc.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center
134 State Street
Meriden, CT 06450
Phone: (203) 237-2229 ext. 6025
Fax : (203) 686-1677
E-mail: onyejej@chc1.com

Dr. Jacqueline Nwando Olayiwola is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of G.I.R.L.T.A.L.K, Incorporated (Girls In Real Life Tackling A Livid Killer: Minority Girls Talk Back to HIV/AIDS). This non-profit organization is committed to educate adolescent girls of color about HIV/AIDS and its prevention and to train them to become Peer Leaders and ambassadors for change. Since the inception of GIRLTALK in 2001, Dr. Olayiwola has directly or indirectly trained girls in high-risk areas of the Bronx, NY, Harlem, NY, Washington Heights, NY and Ghana, West Africa.She has spoken widely on the issues of HIV/AIDS in minority women and continues to promote minority women's health in various settings. She remains committed to halting the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its tantamount ramifications in women of color, both domestically and internationally.

Dr. Olayiwola completed the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School, where her research involved assessing parental/adult support for comprehensive sexuality education in public school systems, especially those predominated by minority students. She is also interested in racial/ethnic disparities in health, minority women's health and setting national policy-related agendas to address these issues. Dr. Olayiwola is currently a staff physician at Community Health Center in Meriden, CT, providing clinical care to medically underserved patients and racial/ethnic minority populations. She continues to be active in HIV/AIDS education and prevention for girls through GIRLTALK, quality improvement, and ensuring access to care for minority populations, especially women and their children.

Current as of September 2006