Lola Kola

Dr Lola Kola (PhD) is a National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Emerging Global Leader currently affiliated to the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry College of Medicine University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is committed to mental health service delivery and research to improve public health services and policy in low-middle-income countries (LMICs), and research has been supported by the National Institute of Health, Medical Research Council, UK, Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Grand Challenges Canada, and International Development Research Centre Canada. She served as National Consultant for mental health at the World Health Organisation, office in Abuja Nigeria between 2011 - 2014. Her current research projects are on addressing mental health and wellbeing in young mothers with perinatal depression.