Adedokun Sulaimon

Spring 2014 Adedokun Sulaimon is a lecturer in the Department of Demography and Social Statistics at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. He is a PhD Fellow of Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), a South-South partnership with South-North collaboration which strengthens research capacity and supports doctoral training in African universities. Adedokun has attended international conferences and seminars, and was at the last 9th Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where he made presentations on socioeconomic determinants of under-five mortality and how antenatal care attendance and place of delivery explain under-five mortality differentials in Nigeria. His research interest is maternal and child health, and he has both national and international publications in this area. Adedokun’s PhD thesis focuses on comparative analysis of the factors accounting for under-five mortality differentials in Northeast and Southwest Nigeria.