Bolanle Olapeju MD, Ph.D.

Education

PhD in Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), Baltimore, Maryland. 2018
MSPH in Public Health, JHSPH, Baltimore, Maryland. 2012
MBBS, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Sagamu, Nigeria. 2008

Biography

Bolanle (Bola) Olapeju currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division of the Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). Bola obtained her medical degree in Nigeria where she worked with many underserved communities. She completed her Master of Science in Public Health (MsPH) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs for over ten years, implementing theory-driven domestic and global social and behavior change studies and interventions in several countries including Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Zambia.
Bola has over 30 peer-reviewed publications and is currently an Editor with PLOS One. She holds a Certificate in Maternal and Child Health by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a member of the Population Association of America and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and serves on multiple technical working groups with World Health Organization Roll Back Malaria. She has instructed and guest lectured a number of public health courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. Her research interests are on health inequities and intersecting biomedical and socio behavioral factors. Bola conducts research validating existing theories and develops new theories of communication as well as social and behavior change to design and evaluate public health interventions to improve health behaviors including but not limited to maternal and child health, HIV, global, reproductive and adolescent health. She also explored behavioral antecedents of stable infectious diseases such as malaria as well as public health emergencies such as Ebola and COVID-19. Other focal areas include health service utilization and systems strengthening, health provider behavior change and life course perspectives of health. Bola currently teaches the two courses in the Division: Social and Behavioral Sciences Applied in Public Health, and Program Planning and Development

Representative Bibliography

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1bCchemY66g5s/bibliography/public/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TxReuv5VQFx4JAkAoGhrXhiOJyvRiDd33Aynm3HBPXg/edit?usp=sharing