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, Ibadan Nigeria. After resuming in the ICH, she was tasked with developing the Adolescent Health unit (a new unit in the Institute) and upgrading the Adolescent component of the Masters in Child, and Adolescent Health programme. Adesola is the current Director of the College of Medicine, Research, and Innovation Management (CRIM) unit. The unit is responsible for management of sponsored research for the College of Medicine.

Adesola’s research interests are in adolescent and young people’s medicine and health. She has served as PI and co-PI on several national and multi-country projects and is experienced in the design and implementation of community and health-facility based research. In addition, she has a keen interest in using mobile technologies in adolescent research and interventions.

Adesola was a Commissioner on the WHO-UNICEF-LANCET Commission - "A future for the world's children?” and is a commissioner on the current Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health. She is the Vice President (sub-Saharan Africa) for the International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH) and the IAAH liaison to the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education steering committee, Treasurer, African Epidemiological Association (AfEA) and President-elect, Society for Adolescent and Young People’s Health in Nigeria (SAYPHIN). Adesola is a member of the National Technical Working Group on Adolescent and Young People’s Health in Nigeria and chairs the Technical Quality Delivery sub-committee. In this capacity, she provides technical support on adolescent Health to the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) to inform adolescent-relevant policies, programmes and annual work plans. She is passionate about building the next generation of adolescent health professionals.