Opeyemi Ibitoye

Opeyemi Ibitoye is a public health and policy advocate. She currently serves as the programme officer at Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, where she leads the food policy campaign programme. She doubles as the national coordinator of national sugar-sweetened beverages tax coalition and manages two groups of young advocates - the Digital Media Volunteers and the Healthy Food Policy Youth Vanguard.

Her expertise spans data generation and utilization for policy engagement, public education, legislative advocacy, and multi-stakeholder facilitation. She has designed and reviewed frameworks that drive national and sub-national discuss on food policy in Nigeria.

Her works on co-creating healthy food environments policies, as she works with diverse groups, harnessing indigenous knowledge from the grassroots to influence high-level action. She has developed and reviewed knowledge products, including policy briefs, advocacy tools, and articles, that inform and support evidence-based decision-making.

She co-authored “Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: A Crucial Component of a Multisectoral Approach to Combating Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria” published in the Nigeria Journal of Medicine. She developed an abstract that was presented at the 2024 World Public Health Nutrition Congress, and she is one of the founding fellows of Behavioural Insights Network Transparency & Accountability (BiNTA) in Nigeria.