Kikelomo Mbada

Kikelomo Aboyowa MBADA is a postgraduate student and an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She is an early-career researcher with an emerging interest in political economy and development studies. Her PhD work examines the role of political prioritization in the differential performance of maternal health policy and its implementation in Southwestern Nigeria. The study focuses on the nature of policy frameworks and the implementation schemes for reducing maternal mortality across states in Nigeria. It seeks to answer how key political and economic variables affect maternal health policy at the sub-national level of governance, with a view toward accounting for the varying outcomes across the federation. Beyond her PhD, she plans to continue studying policy-relevant issues and to engage in fruitful collaborations with researchers from other disciplines to influence maternal and child health policy decisions as a strategy to entrench sustainable development in developing countries. In the long term, she aims to build a career in the political economy of health and in distributive health policies as a specialty within Political Science.