Adeiyewunmi "Ade" Osinubi (born 1996) is an American physician, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is an emergency medicine Resident Physician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and she is the producer of Black Motherhood through the Lens, a documentary film about four Black women's experiences in navigating reproductive health disparities. Due to her work in health equity and media, she has performed over 50 speaking engagements at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She has written multiple articles about health inequities for The Washington Post, Huff Post, Teen Vogue, Essence, and Glamour Magazine.[1][2][3][4] She has been featured in Forbes, PBS, and The Brown Daily Herald.[5][6][3][7] Osinubi is the recipient of the National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Health Award, the 40 under 40 Black Health Connect Award, was recognized as a 2024 Boston Celtics "Hero Among Us" and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism medical honor societies.
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| Born | 1996 (age 27–28) |
| Nationality | Nigerian-American |
| Education | Brown University, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, Filmmaker, Writer |
| Known for | Health Advocacy |
| Awards | National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Health Black Health Connect 40 under 40 awardee |
| Website | www |
Early life and education edit
Osinubi was raised in Somerset, New Jersey[8] and is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Her mother, Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, studied medicine at a well known research university in Nigeria, the University of Ibadan,[9] and specializes in occupational and environmental health.[10] Her father, Dr. Adewole Osinubi received his PhD at the prestigious Imperial College London and is an actuary.[11] Osinubi attended the Groton School,[12] a competitive New England Boarding school and graduated summa cum laude. While in high school, she co-founded the Iris Fistula Project,[8] a non-profit organization that supports women with obstetric fistula, a devastating birth injury that disproportionately impacts women in low resource settings. Through this initiative, she raised over $20,000 to support women affected by this condition.[13] At the age of 17, she received admission to Brown University and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University through the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME)[14] where she would go on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health in 2018 and a Doctor of Medicine in 2022.[15][13] At Brown, she was the co-president of the Black Student Union and received the Alfred Joslin Award for her efforts in 2018.[16] Following graduation, she went on to pursue emergency medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.[17]
Research and career edit
Osinubi's mission is to eradicate health inequities impacting underserved women through media, advocacy, and research.[13] From a young age, Ade has been interested in storytelling and has pursued photography, filmmaking, and writing endeavors.[5] Her work focuses on sharing the stories of minoritized communities that often go untold.[18] Starting from her first year of medical school, she independently produced an award-winning documentary film entitled Black Motherhood through the Lens.[7][5] The film showcases four Black women's experiences in navigating childbirth, infertility, and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders amongst racial health inequities.[3] The film has been accepted to seven film festivals, notably the American Public Health Association Film Festival.[7][5]
Based on her leadership in the reproductive equity space, Ade has been invited to speak at organizations, universities, and colleges across the nation.[5][19] She has given talks at the Black Mamas Matter Alliance National Black Maternal Health Week,[7][5] the National Birth Equity Collaborative National Infertility Week,[13] the Afro-Pics Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute,[20] and many more. Her work has also been widely recognized, notably in Forbes Magazine,[5] PBS,[6] and on ABC News affiliate WCVB Boston "City Line".[21]
Apart from film, Ade has used writing as a medium to raise awareness about health inequities. She has published articles regarding infertility and postpartum mood disorder disparities that were featured on the front pages of The Washington Post Health and Science section[1] and Glamour Magazine.[3] Her first author publication in Pediatrics about dismantling race-based puberty guidelines[15] has led to profession-wide changes in the field of pediatric endocrinology.[22] It was cited on UptoDate, a highly used clinical resource tool, and contributed to race being removed as a risk factor for precocious puberty on the website.[22] Additionally, it has been described as a "practice changing" article[23] that has served as an impetus for hospitals and health organizations to work to eradicate race-based puberty guidelines across the nation.[22][23]
Awards and honors edit
- Boston Celtics 2024 "Hero Among Us" [24]
- National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Minority Health Award[13]
- Black Health Connect 40 under 40 Award[25]
- American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Physicians of Tomorrow Scholar [26]
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society[13]
- Gold Humanism Honor Society[13]
- Rhode Island Black Film Festival 2021 Best Short Collective[27]
- Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health[13]
- Alfred H. Joslin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life[16]
- Brown University Medical Humanities Award[13]
Selected publications edit
- "This Feature Of My Smile Links Me To My Roots — And I’m Not Getting Rid Of It." Huff Post[28]
- "For Black parents with postpartum depression, help can be difficult to find." The Washington Post[1]
- "What it's like to be a Black Girl with Early Puberty," Teen Vogue[2]
- 'It Feels Like A Thousand Needles Are Being Poked Into You At Once': The Physical And Mental Toll Of Sickle Cell Disease," Essence[4]
- "Where Are All the Black Women at the Fertility Clinic?" Glamour Magazine, 2021[3]
- Osinubi, A. A., Lewis-de Los Angeles, C. P., Poitevien, P., & Topor, L. S. (2022). Are Black Girls Exhibiting Puberty Earlier? Examining Implications of Race-Based Guidelines. Pediatrics, 150(2), e2021055595. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-055595
- Kanchi, R., Perlman, S. E., Tabaei, B., Schwartz, M. D., Islam, N., Chernov, C., Osinubi, A., & Thorpe, L. E. (2021). Metabolic syndrome among New York City (NYC) adults: change in prevalence from 2004 to 2013–2014 using New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Annals of Epidemiology, 58, 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.02.014
- Osinubi, Adeiyewunmi. "Sex and Gender Differences in Lower Extremity Amputation-associated Morbidity and Mortality." American Medical Women's Association, Sex and Gender Health Collaborative, 2021
- "Adire: Keeper of Yoruba Culture." The Native Magazine,[29]
- "How 'SKIN', A Photo Series on Colorism, Displays and Celebrates the Beautiful Shades of Blackness." Blavity[30]
References edit
- ^ a b c "For Black parents with postpartum depression, help can be difficult to find". Washington Post. 2022-02-26. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b "What It's Like to Be a Black Girl With Early Puberty". Teen Vogue. 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b c d e "Where Are All the Black Women at the Fertility Clinic?". Glamour. 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b "'It Feels Like A Thousand Needles Are Being Poked Into You At Once': The Physical And Mental Toll Of Sickle Cell Disease". Essence. 2023-09-25. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g Chambers, Dr Brittany. "One Medical Student And Filmmaker's Journey Producing A Film Addressing Black Maternal Health Disparities". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b Story in the Public Square | Story in the Public Square 9/25/2022 | Season 12 | Episode 12 | PBS, retrieved 2023-08-28
- ^ a b c d "'Black Motherhood Through the Lens' documentary raises awareness about black maternal health issues". The Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b Messenger-Gazette, The (2014-06-15). "Somerset teen uses graduation celebration to help women in Ethiopia". nj. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Dr. Omowunmi Yejide Osinubi, FRCA, MSC, MD | DocSpot". www.docspot.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Omowunmi Osinubi, MD, MSc, MBA, FRCA, ABIHM, BCN". The Institute for Functional Medicine. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "One-dimensional Hadamard naturalness-preserving transform reconstruction of signals degraded by nonstationary noise processes - researchr publication". researchr.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
- ^ "Innovative Student Proposals Win Groton Summer Grants". Groton School. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Adeiyewunmi (Ade) Osinubi". The National Minority Quality Forum. 2022-03-21. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "The Crisis No One Talks About". 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b Osinubi, Adeiyewunmi Ade; Lewis-de Los Angeles, C. Paula; Poitevien, Patricia; Topor, Lisa Swartz (2022-08-01). "Are Black Girls Exhibiting Puberty Earlier? Examining Implications of Race-Based Guidelines". Pediatrics. 150 (2): e2021055595. doi:10.1542/peds.2021-055595. ISSN 1098-4275. PMID 35909158.
- ^ a b "Past Recipients of the Alfred H. Joslin Award | Division of Campus Life | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "University of Pennsylvania Emergency Medicine". www.pennmedicine.org. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Black Motherhood through the Lens | Documentary by Adeiyewunmi (Ade) Osinubi". BlackMotherhoodFilm. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Bringing Untold Stories to Life During MLK Week". www.loomischaffee.org. 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Afro-Picks Featuring "Black Motherhood through the Lens"". CCCADI. 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ CityLine: March 13th, Segment 2: Black Motherhood Through the Lens, 2022-03-10, retrieved 2023-08-28
- ^ a b c "Questioning the Dogma". 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ a b "Race Conscious Medicine and Female Puberty". publications.aap.org. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Heroes Among Us | Community | Boston Celtics". www.nba.com. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ "40 Under 40". Black Health Connect. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "AMA Alliance Grassroots Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship". AMA Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "Black Motherhood Through the Lens". www.thevisiblevoicespodcast.com. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ "This Feature Of My Smile Links Me To My Roots — And I'm Not Getting Rid Of It". HuffPost. 2024-04-11. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
- ^ Native, The (2020-07-25). "Adire: Keeper of Yoruba Culture". The NATIVE. Retrieved 2023-08-28.
- ^ Osinubi, Ade. "How 'SKIN', A Photo Series On Colorism, Displays And Celebrates The Beautiful Shades Of Blackness – Blavity". Blavity News & Politics. Retrieved 2023-08-28.