Tolu Abidogun, MBBS

Research Coordinator

Tolu is a research coordinator at GMAP and graduate student in UMD’s MPH in Public Health Practice and Policy program. She provides research support to the HEAL Together and FORE Foundation Detroit Peer Recovery Coach projects, including assessments, qualitative coding, and transcription. She will also be working on a project funded by the Association for Psychological Science, which aims to highlight the voices of underrepresented scholars and people with lived mental health experience by creating a YouTube channel of interviews with speakers for use in psychological science courses.

She previously worked as a pathways intern with the Biostatistics Program at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), where she provided support to the Office of Clinical Research Support and a PCOR Trust Fund Multiple Chronic Condition e-care plan project.

Tolu is interested in mental health research, specifically focused on substance use disorders, and hopes to pursue a PhD in this field. Her research interests include understanding and preventing addictive behaviors in young adults, reducing the social stigma around substance use disorders, and public health policy around access to substance use disorder treatment.

Education:

University of Maryland, College Park
MPH Public Health Policy and Practice (expected Dec 2021)

University of Lagos, Nigeria
Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery