Dr M. Balogun

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.