Researcher profile

Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas

Physician, public health practitioner, and global maternal and newborn health researcher. Presently, an Associate Professor of Maternal and Newborn Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professor on the Erasmus Mundus Europubhealth programme and at the University of Greenwich. Health Systems Research Lead at the Maternal Reproductive Health Research Collective in Lagos, Nigeria, Visiting Research Fellow at the LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom and Principal Researcher at the Senghor Chair in Health and Development in sub-Saharan Africa, University of Ottawa, Canada. Currently, Principal Investigator of the On Tackling in Transit delays for Mothers in Emergency (OnTIME) project funded by Google, Strategy Lead for Lagos Verbal Autopsy, Social Autopsy Sample Registration System (LVASA-SRS) project, co-investigator on the Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnant Nigerian women - Implementation Science (IVON-IS) and Iron deficiency anaemia for post-partum Nigerian women (IVON-PP) projects funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation