Ubong Jackson Udoyen MD, MPH
Ubong is a medical doctor with over 20 years of experience practicing medicine in various capacities. He graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1998 and worked as a Medical House Officer with the Nigerian Army from 1999 – 2000. From 2000 – 2002 he worked as a Primary Care Physician in different rural communities in Nigeria.
In 2002 he moved to the US to start a Master’s in Public Health at the University of South Carolina. On graduation in 2004 he joined the CDC as a Program Coordinator on a HIV Expanded Surveillance Project in South Carolina in conjunction with the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC).
In 2008 he started a residency in General Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Program at North General Hospital in New York. Upon completing his residency in 2012, he did an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine. Since 2013 he has practiced as a Consultant Psychiatrist with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in CT (DMHAS) and with the Office Of Mental Health in New York (OMH).
In 2016 he founded One2one Healthcare and built the One2one Telemedicine platform. He founded the not for-profit Isaiah’s Hope and using the One2one platform has provided primary health care and mental health support for thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs/refugees) housed in IDP camps in Nigeria. He collaborates with a Yale initiative called the HAPPINESS Project providing telemedicine support . Through One2one he was able to organize multiple trainings on COVID treatment protocols for doctors in Mozambique at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in 2020. In 2021 he collaborated with the Nigerian Communication Satellite Company, a federal government parastatal, to write a UN grant, which they won; the ITU Connect2Recover Research Competition.