Thomas Adeoye Lambo
29 March 1923 – 13 March 2004
Thomas Adeoye Lambo was a Nigerian psychiatrist and the first Western-trained psychiatrist to practise in Nigeria. He pioneered community-based mental health care through the Aro village system near Abeokuta, in which patients lived with their families in nearby villages while receiving treatment. He later served as Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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Life events
Born in Abeokuta in what was then the British colony of Nigeria.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTravelled to England to train in medicine, qualifying in the late 1940s.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgUndertook postgraduate training in psychiatry and obtained a diploma in psychological medicine.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook charge of the new psychiatric hospital at Aro, near Abeokuta.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHoused patients with relatives in surrounding villages and combined hospital treatment with traditional healers, a model later studied internationally.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame the first Nigerian to hold a chair in psychiatry and later served as the university's vice-chancellor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft academic work in Nigeria to take a senior post at WHO headquarters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHeld the organisation's second-highest post for around fifteen years before retiring.
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