PhD

Advisor

College of Medicine, University of Ibadan. Expert in adolescent health metrics, participatory and mixed-methods research, and SRHR across diverse contexts.

PhD

Qualitative Research Country Lead, Nigeria

Experienced field researcher and evaluator across global development projects. Professor of development studies focused on gender, climate justice, conflict and governance.

DrPH

Principal Investigator and Co-Director

Executive Director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis. Transdisciplinary developmental scientist with a focus on adolescent wellbeing, youth engagement and SRH across global contexts. Her work includes supporting autonomy, power sharing and flourishing within voluntary contraceptive programming.

Student Research Assistant

Shayla Campbell is a UC Davis student pursuing a major in Global Disease Biology and a minor in Human Rights. As a student research assistant on this project, she collaborates with community members and other faculty members to support data collection and analysis.

MPH

Co-Director

Senior SRHR Technical Advisor with fifteen years of experience across Africa and South Asia. Her work includes voluntary contraceptive programming, co-design with communities, adaptive implementation and community-led knowledge creation. Within Thrive Together she works at the intersection of SRH and wellbeing, exploring how lived experience and shared power shape more relational approaches to programme design.

MD

Advisor

Paediatrician and developmental scientist working to leverage actionable scientific insights to improve the lives of children and adolescents. He engages interdisciplinary teams seeking to advance understanding of child and adolescent learning and development, behavioral/emotional health in youth, adolescent brain development, and the clinical, public health, and policy implications of this work.  He serves as Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health and past President of the Society for Research on Child Development and has served as the Founding Director of the Center for the Developing Adolescent and the Director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Human Development.

PhD

Qualitative Research Country Lead, Uganda

Health systems and participatory research specialist with experience across universities, global agencies and community-led initiatives.

MHS

Research Analyst

Public health and human development researcher with experience in Indigenous health, epidemiology and community-rooted qualitative research. She supports the integration of story-based and scientific evidence.

PhD

Co-Director

Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape. Specialist in participatory, creative and mixed-methods approaches with extensive experience in Nigeria. Her work connects grounded experience with wider systems through facilitating stories and other creative techniques.