Author Details Improving health workforce recruitment and retention in rural and remote regions of Nigeria Niyi Awofeso1 PhD, Professor, niyi.awofeso@uwa.edu.au 1 School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Correspondence: N Awofeso, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia  Author contribution: Niyi Awofeso: original concept. Citation: Awofeso N.  Improving health workforce recruitment and retention in rural and remote regions of Nigeria. Rural and Remote Health 10: 1319. (Online) 2010. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 16 September 2009 Revised: 23 November 2009 Accepted: 4 February 2010