Adebiyi Adesina joined the Guttmacher Institute in 2024 as a Senior Research Scientist. Dr. Adesina has more than 20 years of experience in generating evidence and developing strategic and investment plans that address health priorities across multiple program areas, including family planning; maternal neonatal, child and adolescent health; and HIV/AIDS. He has extensive experience in an array of areas, including cost and cost-effectiveness studies, modeling, resource tracking, strategic planning, and providing evidence and analysis to governments and donors.
Previously, Dr. Adesina served as Director of Health Financing and Health System Strengthening at PAI, where he led the organization’s UHC Engage, which is focused on ensuring that countries’ universal health coverage mechanisms increase access to sexual and reproductive health and rights; its Primary Health Care Initiative; and its Government Accountability for Family Planning Budgets project, as well as being the health financing technical lead for GFF-NGO Host, an initiative to improve the health of women and children around the world through grants to partner organizations. He spent 11 years at Avenir Heath, working on health systems modeling to make the investment case for family planning and HIV/AIDS across Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has collaborated with national governments, donor agencies, and foundations and implementation partners on resource mapping and mobilizing strategies to fund family planning, health systems strengthening and other public health priorities. Prior to working at Avenir, Dr. Adesina was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, where he conducted his field research on antiretroviral medicine pricing and procurement.
Dr. Adesina received his Doctor of Public Health in global health policy and economics, his master’s degree in public health policy and management, and his bachelor’s degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is fluent in English and Spanish and conversational in French and Yoruba.