Prof. Adetoro Adegoke joins Buckinghamshire New University as Professor of Health Inequalities and the Director, Centre for Excellence in Health Inequalities. Her work focuses on reducing health inequalities, improving health, strengthening health care systems and strengthening the capacity of health training institutions. She has over 26 years’ experience in health care delivery; higher education teaching and learning; and training, including over 16 years consulting and/or full-time experience in international development and leading multi-country research including in fragile or post-conflict states with special focus on health and wellbeing, equitable health, quality education, gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment.
She has extensive experience initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating research in many countries including leading multi-country research as Principal Investigator across Africa and Asia (Nigeria, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania; Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan). Adetoro is an editorial board member for the Austin Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the International Journal of Nursing Education and Practice and a reviewer for many journals.
Professor Adegoke has extensive experience providing Reproductive Maternal Newborn and Child Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) technical assistance and leading health programmes in 17 Low- and Middle-Income countries in Africa, Asia and South America (Bangladesh, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra-Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
Adetoro over many years has developed, significantly contributed to, and is an internationally well-recognised expert in the field of global public health. She is a thought leader in reproductive health; maternal health; maternal mortality; skilled birth attendance; humanitarian-development nexus; decolonisation in global health; human resources for health; midwifery; and reproductive, maternal and newborn health needs in fragile and conflict situations. As a thought leader in global health, she has been a force developing and implementing policies to reduce health inequalities; framing access to health and education and has led dialogues about equity, equality, inclusion, social justice and social impact.