Dr. Angelina Aduke Toluhi joins CCRI team
Dr. Angelina Aduke Toluhi, who started her appointment April 27 as an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health Science in the John D. Bower School of Population Health, will support CCRI in our mission to achieve National Cancer Institute designation.
Toluhi brings a distinctive combination of clinical training, advanced public health scholarship, and more than 15 years of applied leadership in health systems strengthening, maternal and child health, and health equity research.
She earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, her Master of Public Health in Global Health from the University of Manchester, and her Doctor of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she most recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Center for Research in Women’s Health.
As a post-doctoral fellow, she led an American Heart Association-funded study aimed at improving cardiovascular health literacy for women living in maternity care deserts. Her population health research centers on the structural and social determinants driving health disparities, with particular focus on maternal health equity, maternity care experiences of Black women in the U.S. South and community-engaged approaches to improving health literacy and care access.
She served as principal investigator on the American Heart Association-funded PEACH Study (Pre-pregnancy and Interpregnancy Engagement for Alabama’s Cardiovascular Health Literacy), developing and evaluating a culturally tailored intervention to strengthen cardiovascular health literacy for women in maternity care deserts. Prior to her doctoral training, she held senior global health leadership roles including Head of the Health Systems Strengthening Unit at Catholic Relief Services Nigeria and the Nigeria Country Program Director at Nutrition International, giving her a breadth of implementation science and program evaluation experience that will be a genuine asset to CCRI’s population health mission.