Faculty Member

Ibukun Abejirinde MD, MSc., PhD

Email Address(es)
ibukun.abejirinde(at)utoronto.ca
Division(s)/Institute(s)
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Position
Assistant Professor
SGS Status
Associate Member
Appointment Status
Status Only

Research Interests

  • Health Equity
  • Digital technology and health system innovations
  • Migrant and Refugee Health
  • Learning Health Systems
  • Implementation and Evaluation research
  • Intersectionality
  • Theory-driven methodologies
    • Realist methodology
  • Global Health

Educational Overview

  • PhD – Global Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    • Erasmus Mundus Transglobal Health Fellow
    • Thesis: Diagnostic and clinical decision support systems for antenatal care: is mHealth the future in low-resource settings?
  • MSc – Global Health, Maastricht University
    • Specialisation in Global Health Leadership and Organisation
    • Recipient, Elisabeth Strouven Award
    • Thesis: Health Systems Analysis of a community-based malaria elimination project in Ruhuha, Rwanda.
  • MD – Crimea State Medical University
  • BSc – University of South Africa (UNISA)

Primary Teaching Responsibilities

  • Women, Children, and Adolescent Health: A Glocal Perspective CHL5117H

Selected Publications

  1. Cressman S, Abejirinde IO, Assali J, Dennis MB, Maybee A, Strom M, et al. Learning Health Systems: A Paradigm Shift in What We Can Do about Digital Health Inequities. Healthc Pap [Internet]. 2024 Jan 31 [cited 2024 Mar 5];21(4). Available from: https://www.longwoods.com/content/27269/learning-health-systems-a-paradigm-shift-in-what-we-can-do-about-digital-health-inequities
  2. Khan BN, Chu C, Brual J, Dang-Nguyen M, Oladimeji A, Kthupi A, Bolea-Alamañac B, Tadrous M, O’Riordan A, Rubenstein D, Carlin K, LongumP, GibsonD, Abejirinde IO. Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of a Digital Substance Use and Recovery Program: An Observational Study on Usage Patterns, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes in Ontario, Canada. Psychiatric Services
  3. Kachimanga C, Zaniku HR, Divala TH, Ket JC, Mukherjee JS, Palazuelos D, Kulinkina AV, Abejirinde IO, Akker Tvd. Adoption of mHealth Technologies by Community Health Workers to Improve the Use of Maternal Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mixed Method Systematic Review. JMIR Preprints. 26/12/2023:55819
  4. Wong, K.L.M., Banke-Thomas, A., Olubodun, T., Macharia, P.M., Stanton, C., Sundararajan, N., Shah, Y., Prasad, G., Kansal, M., Vispute, S., Shekel, T., Ogunyemi, O., Gwacham-Anisiobi, U., Wang, J., Abejirinde, IO., Makanga, P.T., Afolabi, B.B., Beňová, L. Socio-spatial equity analysis of relative wealth index and emergency obstetric care accessibility in urban Nigeria. Commun Med 4, 34 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00458-2
  5. Wankah P, Gordon D, Shahid S, Chandra S, Abejirinde I-O, Yoon R, Wodchis WP, O’Campo P, Steele Gray C, Clark N, Shaw J. Equity Promoting Integrated Care: Definition and Future Development. International Journal of Integrated Care, 2023; 23(4): 6, 1–6. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.7614
  6. Wang J, Wong KLM, Olubodun T, Gwacham-Anisiobi U, Ogunyemi O, Afolabi BB, Macharia PM, Makanga PT, Abejirinde IO, Beňová L, Banke-Thomas A. Developing policy-ready digital dashboards of geospatial access to emergency obstetric care: a survey of policymakers and researchers in sub-Saharan Africa. Health Technol. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-023-00793-9
  7. Khan BN, Dang-Nguyen M, Gordon D, Chandra S, Abejirinde IO. What comes after strategy: Moving beyond statements and open letters – An analysis of three Toronto hospitals’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) plans. BMJ Leader 2023;7:1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/leader-2023-000808
  8. Shukla S*, Castro Torres AF, Satish RV, Shenderovich Y, Abejirinde IO, Steinert JI. Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Maharashtra, India: a mixed-methods study. Sex Reprod Health Matters. 2023 Dec;31(1):2249284. doi: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2249284.
  9. Marchal B, Abejirinde IO, Sulaberidze L, et al. How do participatory methods shape policy? Applying a realist approach to the formulation of a new tuberculosis policy in Georgia. BMJ Open 2021;11:e047948. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047948
  10. Muinga N, Abejirinde IO, Paton C, English M, Zweekhorst M. Designing paper-based records to improve the quality of nursing documentation in hospitals: A scoping review. J Clin Nurs. 2020 Oct 28. doi: 10.1111/jocn.15545. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33113237.
  11.  Eboreime EA, Olawepo JO, Banke-Thomas A, Abejirinde IO, Abimbola S. Appraising and addressing design and implementation failure of global health: A pragmatic framework. Global Public Health. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1814379
  12. Banke-Thomas A, Balogun M, Wright O, Ajayi B, Abejirinde IO, Olaniran A, Giwa-Ayedun RO, Odusanya B, Afolabi BB. Reaching health facilities in situations of emergency: qualitative study capturing experiences of pregnant women in Africa’s largest megacity. Reproductive health. 2020 Dec;17(1):1-5.
  13. Affun-Adegbulu C, Sarkar NDP, Abejirinde IO, van Belle S, Adegbulu O. Health systems recovery from COVID-19: a window of opportunity for (in)fertility care, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28:1, DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2020.1790090
  14. van Belle S, Affun-Adegbulu C, Soors W, N Srinivas P, Hegel G, Van Damme W, Saluja D, Abejirinde IO, Wouters E, Masquillier C, Tabana H, Chenge F, Polman K, Marchal B. COVID-19 and informal settlements: an urgent call to rethink urban governance. Int J Equity Health 19, 81 (2020).
  15. Engelbert BL, Zweekhorst MBM, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Muftugil-Yalcin S, Abejirinde IO, Becquet R, et al. (2019) To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana. PLOS One 14(9): e0221789.
  16. Marchal B, Giralt AN, Sulaberidze L, Chikovani I, Abejirinde IO. Designing and evaluating provider results-based financing for tuberculosis care in Georgia: a realist evaluation protocol. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr 1;9(4):e030257.
  17. Abejirinde IO, De Brouwere V, van Roosmalen J, van der Heiden M, Apentibadek N, Bardaji A, Zweekhorst M. Viability of diagnostic decision support for antenatal care in rural settings: findings from the Bliss4Midwives Intervention in Northern Ghana. Journal of Global Health 9(1): 010420.
  18. Abejirinde IO, Zweekhorst M, Bardaj. A, Abugnaba-Abanga R, Apentibadek N, De Brouwere V, van Roosmalen J, Marchal B. Unveiling the black box of diagnostic and clinical decision support systems for antenatal care: Realist Evaluation. JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2018;6(12):e11468.
  19. Abejirinde IO, Douwes R, Bardaji A, Abugnaba-Abanga R‡, Zweekhorst M, van Roosmalen J, De Brouwere V. Pregnant women’s experiences with an integrated diagnostic and decision support device for antenatal care in Ghana. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2018;18(1):209.
  20. Abejirinde IO, Ilozumba O, Marchal B, Zweekhorst M, Dieleman M. Mobile health and the performance of maternal health care workers in low- and middle-income countries: A realist review. International Journal of Care Coordination. Special Issue: Realist research in health services research and care coordination. 2018;21(3):73–86

Other Affiliations

  • Scientist, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners
  • Adjunct Scientist, Women’s College Hospital Research Institute
  • External Graduate Supervisor, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
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