BOSTON, Massachusetts — Oneway Broadcasting Network took its place among clinicians, researchers and global health leaders at the Global Health Catalyst Summit, hosted at Harvard and MIT and online from September 18 to 21, 2026.
The summit brings together world leaders, faculty, students, clinicians, industry and government leaders, cancer advocates and survivors, athletes and artists, to learn, network and collaborate across disciplines for global health and development. OBN went to make a case not often heard in that room: that faith media belongs in the health conversation.
Pastor Femi Agboola and Dr. Yemi Agboola, DNP presented Faith, Media & Global Health: OBN as a Faith & Community Catalyst, built on a conviction that runs through everything the network does.
“Through knowledge the righteous are delivered.” — Proverbs 11:9b
Faith-based organisations are traditionally associated with preaching and prayer. Yet deliverance also takes knowledge of the body and its environment: understanding how you are made, managing stress, and preventing chronic disease before it takes hold. Preparing souls for eternity, the session argued, should go hand in hand with stewarding the bodies we live in today.
Millions who may never step inside a sanctuary carry a smartphone every day. Across nine television channels, four radio stations and a 24/7 stream that reached 141 countries in the last 30 days, OBN carries health literacy into living rooms alongside the Gospel — and OBN Africa now takes culturally grounded health messages, nutrition education and medical guidance to African families and the diaspora.
Everything the network produces is built around seven dimensions of health: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, occupational and environmental.
The session pointed to what changes when knowledge reaches people. A business owner overwhelmed by severe insomnia and unmanaged high blood pressure gained nutritional clarity through coaching, normalised her vitals and recovered restorative sleep. Another participant, after years of fatigue and failed weight-loss cycles, released close to 60 lbs and built habits that held. A discouraged pre-med graduate, ready to leave medicine altogether, found through consistent mentorship and prayer the strength to persevere — and is now a first-year medical student.
OBN came away with one invitation to extend. Chronic disease, caregiver fatigue and the mental health crisis among young people are larger than any single organisation, and diaspora communities hold significant capital, clinical expertise and deep ancestral ties. Organised through trusted faith media, that becomes a real force for health equity.
The network is inviting health systems and clinics, nursing homes and geriatric providers, community relief organisations, diaspora associations, clinicians and churches to co-labour with it — so that knowledge travels from broadcast to doorstep and reaches the families who need it most.
Read more about OBN Health and how to partner · See pictures from the summit
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