I am a physician, public health practitioner, and global maternal and newborn health researcher, having completed my medical training at the Lagos State University, Nigeria and post-graduate degrees at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Ecole des Hautes Etude en Santé Publique, Rennes, France, and Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Rennes, France. I subsequently completed my doctoral training at the University of Liverpool/Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

I joined the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in January 2023 as an Associate Professor in Maternal and Newborn Health after previously holding the same role at the University of Greenwich. I am also a Visiting Professor on the Erasmus Mundus Europubhealth programme, a Visiting Research Fellow at the LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, Principal Researcher at the Senghor Chair in Health and Development in sub-Saharan Africa, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Health Systems Research Lead at the Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective, Lagos, Nigeria. I am an editorial board member of PLOS Global Public Health, Reproductive Health, and BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.