Oluwaseyi Somefun

Oluwaseyi Somefun (Seyi) is a youth researcher whose primary goal is to generate scholarship that supports the holistic wellbeing of youth who experience cumulative and convergent risks to healthy development. Specifically, her interest has focused on what can be learned from considering how, especially prior to intervention, youth manoeuvre risk in everyday life. Her research, which targets the identification of risk and promotion of healthy development among marginalized youth, is a critical step towards alleviating health disparities and socially constructed barriers to positive youth development. This research is grounded in her practical experience and interdisciplinary training in public health, sociology, demography, and social methods, and combines quantitative and qualitative approaches. She plays an ongoing active role in several interdisciplinary research projects. The majority of these have been published in high ranking international and national accredited journals. Recently, she has also focused on the acceptability of adolescent interventions, made new commitments to interdisciplinary dialogue in research that focuses on young adults in Africa. When she’s not struggling with research, Seyi can be found hiking or tinkering with her fantasy football team.