Rotimi Kukoyi

Biography

Olurotimi M. Kukoyi, Hoover, is a senior at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) where he majors in Health Policy and Management. As an intern in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, he developed policies to advance value-based care for residents across the state. As a summer intern in Nigeria, he designed and built digital tools to support the implementation of better health care decision-making. Olurotimi has worked with the UNC Student Health Action Coalition to help provide free health services to uninsured and underinsured state residents. He was elected senior class president and is a Truman Scholar. He also recently completed his first marathon. At Oxford, Olurotimi hopes to pursue the M.Sc. in Health Improvement and Evaluation and the M.Sc. in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation.