Bosede Bukola AFOLABI, is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, and the Head of Department. She is a maternal medicine expert and has a D.M. from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UK, the West African College of Surgeons, and the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. She is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria and lead investigator of several research projects and of over 8m USD from TETFund Nigeria, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, amongst others. She has supervised over 20 postgraduate theses and PhDs and has over 102 peer-reviewed publications. She is the Director of CCTRIS.

She is a Professor of Hematology & Consultant-Specialist hematopathologist to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Her research and clinical interests are in benign blood diseases, sickle cell disease, inherited bleeding disorders and blood transfusion.
She is the Principal Investigator and Co-investigator of several funded collaborative research in SCD, anemia and hemophilia including low dose aspirin for preventing intrauterine growth restriction and preeclampsia in sickle cell pregnancy (PIP-SICKLE): a randomized controlled trial, Intravenous versus oral iron for iron deficiency anaemia in pregnant and post-partum Nigerian women (IVON & IVON-PP): open labelled, randomized controlled trials and Assessing Combination Hydroxyurea and Exogenous Erythropoietin in Sickle Cell Disease (ACHiEvE-SCD). She is the Principal Investigator for the Sickle Cell Disease Registry, Nigeria, with the objective to collect real-time, multi-center, prospective, and longitudinal data of patients with SCD to provide local evidence to improve the quality of care of persons living with SCD and provide data for advocacy.

Prof. Adeyemo has authored and co-authored over 90 publications in both local and international peer-reviewed Journals.

Dr Mobolanle R. Balogun, MBBS, MPH, FMCPH, FWACP is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, and a consultant public health physician at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Her research interests are in reproductive health and the epidemiology of infectious diseases particularly HIV. She is undergoing a PhD in Global Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK where she is working on research to build her capacity in Implementation Science. Currently, she is a co-investigator on the IVON and IVON-PP randomized control hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials to evaluate the effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of intravenous iron for the treatment of anaemia in pregnancy and postpartum respectively. She is also a co-investigator on IVON-IS, a parallel implementation research project to test options to strengthen routine screening for anemia during and immediately after pregnancy.

Dr. Kehinde Okunade is the PI of an ongoing research grant (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre Global Cancer Disparities Pilot Grant) and a co-PI on an International Innovation Grant (IIG) (American Cancer Society). He was PI of a similar IIG award in 2020 and the site PI of a UK MRC grant with subaward in 2018. He was also awarded the Fogarty Fellowship (HBNU) with a seed grant in 2018.