Community & teaching

Teaching, organising,
showing up.

Some of the most useful work I do pays nothing. Facilitating workshops, running health programmes, mentoring students, and turning up for public health outreach in Lagos.

Where I show up

Four rooms. One habit.

Workshops, webinars, tutorials and outreach.
The work that only counts once someone else can use it.

Programs Lead

The Health enLight Initiative

August 2025 - Present · Lagos, Nigeria

I run the programme calendar for a health-enlightenment NGO, and built the site it now lives on.

  • Organise and coordinate the monthly health webinars on X Spaces and Google Meet, drawing 10-80 live attendees per session.
  • Design the flyers and assets, collaborating with media team, on improving social media engagement.
  • Ran a health outreach curriculum for secondary schools and trained 20 student health ambassadors.
  • Designed and built the initiative's website so the team can publish its own story.
Visit the site
The Health enLight Initiative website homepage, showing a stack of upcoming event cards

Lead Facilitator

The Bioinformatics Bridge (BioBridge) 1.0

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Lagos

A two-day, faculty-wide bioinformatics training. I coordinated the people and the logistics, and taught two of the sessions.

  • Coordinated the other facilitators and ran logistics for over 40 participants.
  • Designed the digital assets used across the workshop.

Sessions I led

  • Creating Reproducible and Reusable Genome Analysis Workflows with KBase
  • Python as a Computational Skill
Tomiwa presenting the KBase Narrative Navigator to participants at the BioBridge 1.0 workshop
Tomiwa pointing at a labelled KBase narrative dashboard during a BioBridge 1.0 session

Volunteer

End TB Outreach

Lagos, Nigeria

A schools outreach for World TB Day, run with the Lagos State TB and Leprosy Control Programme.

  • Joined the volunteer team taking tuberculosis awareness into Lagos secondary schools.
  • The outreach pointed pupils and staff to free testing and treatment through the national TB hotline.
Tomiwa in a World TB Day volunteer vest beside a tuberculosis symptom-awareness poster at a Lagos school
Volunteers and pupils holding Zero TB materials outside a Lagos school on World TB Day

Student Mentor

National Association of Microbiology Students (NAMS), UNILAG Chapter

July 2022 - August 2024 · Lagos, Nigeria

Mentoring, tutorials and talks for microbiology undergraduates at the University of Lagos.

  • Mentored several students, three of whom reached a first-class GPA in a semester - one of them a perfect 5.00.
  • Addressed 100+ first-year students at orientation with strategies for balancing academics with extracurriculars and putting technical skills to work in microbiology.
  • Organised and ran tutorials on coursework and statistical reporting methods, improving participants' exam performance.
  • Presented on environmental sustainability and the part microbiologists play in it.
Tomiwa with fellow NAMS executives at a University of Lagos microbiology student event