Dr. Elugbadebo Olufisayo, MBBS, MSc, FWACP, is an early career clinical and academic psychiatrist. Her clinical and research interest is in Old Age Psychiatry. Her long-term career goal is to become a leading clinician and researcher in the field of mental health for older people in Africa, leading future research efforts to implement culturally-appropriate innovations to address the mental knowledge and healthcare gap in the elderly in LMICs.

She has served as a collaborator in a large- scaled international research project: The long-term follow-up study of the Ibadan cohort of the Indianapolis-Ibadan Dementia project. She is currently having hands-on experience as a collaborator on two ongoing large-scale international research projects – The NIH funded Recruitment and Retention for Alzheimer’s Disease Diversity Genetic Cohorts in the ADSP (READD – ADSP) and a NIHR Trust funded Intervention for Depression in underserved Geriatric Populations (INDIGO).

She is a fellow on the GALENOS (Global Alliance for Living Evidence on aNxiety, depressiOnand pSychosis) project; a project focused on synthesising new living evidence resource of early phase research for research prioritisation in mental health using living systematic reviews. In addition, she is currently enrolled on a PhD programme in Psychiatry at the University of Ibadan and her research is focused on Resilience in older adults.

She has also coordinated local support groups for caregivers of persons living with dementia, planned participatory research activities, co-developed educational materials on dementia with patients and caregiver groups, and organised programmes where social engagements involving dancing are culturally adapted as innovations to improve the life quality of dementia patients, and better educate caregivers on how to manage associated behavioural problems, using non- pharmacological methods.