Adesola Olumide

Adesola Olumide is a Professor and Consultant Community Physician at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), University of Ibadan and University College Hospital, Nigeria. Adesola coordinated the Adolescent Health component of the MPH programme in Child and Adolescent Health (CAH) run by ICH from 2008 to 2017. From 2014 to 2017, she coordinated the ICH Infant Welfare/ Well-child, and was Acting Director of the Institute from 2017 – 2019. Currently, she is the Director of the College of Medicine, Research and Innovation Management (CRIM) unit. Over the course of her career, Adesola has served as investigator on a number of projects. Her research interests are in the epidemiology and determinants of non-communicable conditions and risk behaviours among adolescents and use of mobile technology to deliver interventions to address adolescent problems. She is a Commissioner on the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health, and a member of the WHO Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health (GAMA) advisory group. She is the President of the Society for Adolescent and Young People’s Health in Nigeria (SAYPHIN). Adesola is also a member of the National Technical Working Group on Adolescent and Young People’s Health in Nigeria; providing technical support to the Federal Ministry of Health on adolescent policies and programmes.  She has a keen interest in mentoring of junior colleagues and her research interests have expanded to include utilization of research findings to develop and implement evidence-based interventions to address problems of adolescents and young people.