Portfolio
This is not a list of things I did to fill a CV. These are studies I care about, questions I am trying to answer and communities I am trying to serve better.
Independent
Investigating what Nigerian adolescents actually know about HIV/AIDS, how they feel about it and how that shapes their behaviour. The goal is data that can directly inform school-based health interventions and policy conversations in Lagos State.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Exploring how young Nigerians between the ages of 15 and 35 find, trust and act on health information online and what that means for the future of digital health interventions in Nigeria.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Designed and delivered structured health education sessions on HIV/AIDS prevention, transmission and stigma reduction across communities during national service. Reached hundreds of young Nigerians in conversations that most formal systems had left unstarted.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
EPIX Initiative
Collaborative and team-based research building African evidence for African communities.
Nigerian adolescents avoid formal healthcare even when sick. Cost, stigma, distance and distrust all play a role. This study uses qualitative interviews and structured surveys to document health-seeking pathways, with findings informing a digital triage tool for young people.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Nigeria has no reliable routine data on adolescent health outcomes at community level. This situational analysis will document data gaps and produce a practical digital collection tool for community health workers in resource-limited settings.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Between 10 and 15 million Nigerian adolescents are not in school, yet every adolescent health programme targets school-based youth. This project will assess vulnerabilities and design digital health education modules for the channels these young people actually use.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Male adolescents carry significant health risks yet are systematically excluded from research and digital health interventions. This qualitative study explores health-seeking attitudes and barriers through focus groups and in-depth interviews.
Role: [To be filled by Mercy]
Mercy Ogunwale